Shadow Warrior 2

It is too repetitive. Yes, it is fun to shred everything to pieces...first few hundred times, but there are thousands of this "times" in game, and you start to feel yourself like a lumberjack on a working duty. Yes, it is fun to explore levels, all three of them. And then it became not fun at all, when you see one annoying huge labirynth-like section one more time, and then one more time, and then one more... Yes, it's fun to optimise your gun, so it will be exactly 0,1% more effective (and you never notice the difference). I've heard this game is short, just about 10 hours.... It is around 30 hours for me now and it is just half of a game if you do not count side missions and other stuff they add to the game at this state. If I will go on and do everything it will be another 60 hours of chopping this "wood" so I decided to stop. Yes, if I will just go to the mission's target and avoid everything else it will be fast, but I just can't. This game might have been so much better, but now I'am going to continue on Youtube. Or just go and chop some wood in real life, it is actually more fun then playing this game some more.

The original remake of Shadow Warrior from 2013 was a nice throwback to the 90's shooters with a modern twist. Shadow Warrior 2 on the other hand feels like a mix between Borderlands and Diablo, where you spend most of your time looting boxes and collecting trophies. Let's start with the good things: The graphics are great and the soundtrack's kick-ass. The bad? The humor is juvenile and most of the time pretty cringeworthy. The story is non-existent. The levels are much bigger and less linear, but are procedurally (=randomly) generated, which means you'll see a lot of the same assets being reused. One moment you're fighting Zilla gangsters and the other some yokai looking freaks. The weapons (except the swords) still feel underpowered, despite the fact that you can upgrade them. The environmental powers are confusing en the menu interface is terrible. There are also quite a few glitches and bugs, like getting stuck on terrain. This game is enjoyed best when you play it moderately, because after a few hours of hacking your way through the same enemies and listening to Lo Wang's terrible jokes it gets extremely repetitive. I bought this game because it was cheap and for those couple of bucks it can be good fun, but I would be pissed if I would've paid full price for this.

at first, I always believed that this game is a bad one.. saw it when it first released two years ago.. saw pictures of it, saw even gameplay videos, and never liked it.. always believed it was bad, but once I downloaded it, the first sec after pressing the play button, the intro only!! it impressed me, when the real thing started, it was too smooth, in-game, I've plenty of weapons, melee weapons like sword and katanas, guns, bows, magic, and many many other, it's just a real masterpiece, from the ground to the top, the graphics, the story, the gameplay, the whole thing is really impressive, I played a lot of games, but never saw one like this before, now, the game became from a bad one to a legendary game to me, so I really recommend it to everyone.

Pros: Very fluid combat (in terms of how easy it is to keep momentum & resources while engaged), which somewhat favours melee over ranged. Movement speed more akin to a certain space ninja looter shooter than your typical FPS. Variety of weapons ensures you will find at least a couple you absolutely love using. Randomly generated levels can often be completed sans combat (although why would you do that?). Very nice graphics with some visceral elements that look great. Subjectively spot-on humour. Cons: If you find the humour bad, you will want to mute the dialogue. Game will randomly stutter on any gaming setup but nothing in the realm of unplayable. Some enemies are way less fun to fight than others (usually the humanoid enemies are the best). Loot is somewhat required to maintain DPS. TL;DR: A solid 9/10 title, but if you don't like the kind of silly humour this game is full of... You might not like the rest nearly as much, so purely gameplay-wise 8/10.

I can see how people have fun with this game, but it is not for me. It is a solid experience, that does nothing really wrong. My problem with this game is, that it feels uninspired most of the time. The levels feel random and boring. The weapon upgrades are nothing but numbers. They aren't a joy to use. It also doesn't help, that you get so many upgrades, that you can't keep track of them. The enemy designs are mostly interesting, but fighting them isn't fun either, as they are way to bulletspongy. The story seems solid, but is nothing special either. There is not a single thing that keeps me playing.