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Posted on: March 3, 2022

soulwynd

Games: 218 Reviews: 8

What happened?

Total play time: 5 hours and that includes menu downtime and me going AFK now and then. So, who decided after making Shadow Warrior 2 that this would be acceptable? You're not doom, why the hell did you guys try to make a trash version of doom eternal? I'd fucking refund this if I didn't have any integrity after actually finishing the game. So lets get on with it; Pros: -Decent graphics and interesting looking enemy design. Except for the fur, it looks terrible. -There is at least one redeemable music in the soundtrack -Combat is alright now and then Cons: -Short, I don't remember how long the Shadow Warrior reboot was, but it feels much shorter than that. Nothing compared to the hundreds of hours you can enjoy in Shadow Warrior 2 -Most upgrades are outright shit or don't make much of a difference. -Small weapon selection that tries to imitate doom a bit, with certain weapons being ineffective against certain enemies -Sound track is mostly uninspired and repeats non-stop. Now go listen to this: https://youtu.be/WyXQaA4giPQ See the difference? That track gives me chills to this day. -The voice acting is mediocre at best, bad a lot of the time, what the fuck happened to Hoji? -There are about 9 enemies you fighter over and over and only 2 bosses. What... The... Fuck... -It's a god damn theme park arena shooter and a bad one at that, Doom, Shadow Warrior, even Hard Reset are much better than this. -You constantly get interrupted by low framerate, low res cutscenes that were pre-recorded in the game engine. Is this the 90s again? Conclusion: Just why? Did you want to kill the franchise? And are these 5 stars reviewers high or something? I only voted 2 stars because from time to time the combat can be fun, I guess thankfully it was only 5 hours, because it was tiresome by the end. Making a shooter you don't want to shoot in anymore, congratulations.

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Posted on: May 20, 2022

ScrapMetal

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Games: 107 Reviews: 1

A huge disappointment.

If you played previous Shadow Warrior titles do yourself a favour and DON'T buy this game. The regression in depth of the game is absurd. What you NEED to know before you buy: - forget about loads of weapons, enhantments, stats, crafting, adjusting your equipment like in SW2 -> it's not here. - There's i no map exploring or side quests, or any deeper character development. - Also there is no way to customize your fighting style like in SW2. The game forces you to use weapons, and katana is just a backup. - The game progress is just running along a simple path with frequent jumping and grappling hook. - Items around you are no longer destructible. Also the enemies are extremely repetitive. - There is only one animal in the game: a bunny, and it looks hidious. - Environments are pretty indeed, but there is no photo mode like in SW2 - It took me 7 hours of gameplay to complete the game. While my SW2 on steam took me 37h of gameplay to completion. All it all, I am hugely dissapointment, I can't understand why would they even do that? It' would be WAY better to just make a DLC to SW2. If I knew that all I'd happily wait a few years for -80% discount.

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Posted on: April 25, 2022

8BitChris

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Games: 1119 Reviews: 34

I miss Shadow Warrior 2013...

If the second game was a mindless looter shooter, this one is a mindless arena shooter. Not a bad one, but compared to the first (i.e. SW 2013) this one barely feels like a game anymore. Gone are levels that were actual locations with tasks, story beats, variety. But there's a grappling hook now. Because that's what everyone else does.

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Posted on: March 5, 2022

eddee

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Games: 509 Reviews: 51

Utter garbage, play Shadow Warrior 2

Review: WTF?! In length: Other reviewers aren't kidding, even with a full time job you can finish it in one evening. No replayability AT ALL, no New Game Plus, no keeping your weapons and unlocks, NOTHING! If I had to guess, they were behind their release date due to 2020 and such, and simply said "Screw it, throw out the 90% of the game we planned and just release what we have, polish and grind away all extra content that could cause bugs, and give the players a refurbished demo." Damn this, I pre-ordered it. I want a refund. Shadow Warrior 2 was a pseudo-open world game, random missions, unlocks, etc. In this game you have nothing redeeming, number of weapons was cut by nearly 2/3s (only 7 now), no special attack, etc. Most of the weapons are one-use items or timed-use you get from finishing moves. You have a freeze grenade, black hole grenade, health boost, dual miniguns (that don't fire as fast as a single machine gun from some games), and the best two: swarm missile launcher and a bladed eye drone boomerang thing. Which unfortunately you won't be able to use more than half a dozen times in the game. Well, all they can do to me now is say no to my refund request!

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Posted on: March 13, 2022

barbacot

Games: 4 Reviews: 1

short and not worth the price tag

This game is nothing like Shadow Warrior 2... It is extremely short, a lot of air jumping that I don't like and no replay value. Also, the asked price proves that there is no limit to greed for some producers...they should be ashamed with themselves...this is a 15 - 20 $ game at most...

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