Shadow Warrior Classic Complete

It's an okay freebie. The game has all the hallmark foibles of the era in one package, making sure every mechanic and technical aspect is a chore for the player. You may or may not enjoy the humour, which is all the writing the game has and needs.

...And it still crashes in the first level? The Duke engine contains a fatal sound bug that causes certain games to crash at certain points. For Duke, it was dropping down the sewer pipe in the demolished building in Red Light District. I played Shadow Warrior back in the day and could never get past the first level because it crashed with the same bug when making my way down the subway tunnel with the turret at the end. There is a patch for this out there somewhere, but I was a little shocked, almost a decade later, to spend good money on a so called "complete" collection, apparently modified to run on modern systems, and have it crash at the exact same spot as it did so many years ago. I won't ask for my money back, since I got it on sale, but I think I'll be sticking to the Classic Redux edition on Steam-- just wish I'd known GoG couldn't be bothered to fix the bug until I'd already spent my money. Since my review of the game only covers part of the first level, I am compelled to give the game one star for being so short and crashing.

I'm a fan of oldschool shooters in general but this game is an example of how to screw up almost every aspect of game design. Most of the weapons have something wrong about them that makes them annoying to use. The dual uzis' reload time is ridiculous, the shotgun also reloads after every FOUR shots, the grenade launcher has unreasonably wide splash radius, the railgun doesn't actually shoot where the crosshair is and has a delay between the button press and the shot... Etc. The worst thing about this game are the enemies. In my opinion, the ninja hitscanners are even worse than Blood's cultists. They have perfect accuracy, they have no wind-up or tell before their attacks whatsoever, and later you get variations that throw stuff which can kill you in one hit that you can barely even see sometimes, also with no wind-up or tell. The cloaked ninja is one of the worst enemies I've ever seen in any videogame. Then you have the bees which are ridiculously annoying, worse than any of the small enemies from other Build engine games. You also get a lot of barely visible mines, sometimes random rocks just fly out of some lava and kill you, etc. Basically, this game is the very definition of unfair and requires constant save-scumming to play on the harder difficulties. The levels are mind-blowingly boring and occasionally have the way forward hidden better than actual secrets, though the latter only happened a few times. Nonetheless, they are bland, cramped, and full of horribly designed combat encounters that you WILL get killed by unless you know what's coming up. Stick to Duke3D, Ion Fury, Doom, Quake, whatever, even Blood is less irritating and actually has atmosphere, but avoid this pile of trash. Even though it's free I feel ripped off. It is the worst FPS I've ever played, and I've beaten Daikatana.

In Steam this game is free... just saying. Maybe you should take some marketing lessons

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