Shadow Warrior 2

The first Shadow Warrior has a special place in my heart, as one of the first games I ever played when I was a kid. Brutal, fast-paced, unique style... never progressed past the first level. :) The sequel is a totally different beast that definitely pulls from the popular gameplay mechanics of the last decade, such as, you know... LET'S THROW TONS OF USELESS LOOT at the player like we're in some freaking Diablo knockoff. Not my cup of tea, and I do think the game could do without it. I'm certain there are gamers who enjoy tweaking their guns and trying out dozens of builds but for me this hurts the flow of the games. And so do the dialogues, oh goodness - SO MANY of them. Even though I had a wide grin a few times from Lo Wang's sassy jokes, more often than not I'd realize I'm just scrolling the Insta feed. Can't miss the plot, you know, but the plot isn't exactly gripping me either. Overall, this is a solid B shooter whose main redeeming qualities are speed and gun variety. Nothing more, nothing less. By the end of the playthrough it was getting quite repetitive but luckily, it does take around 10 hours total.

Yeah definitely underrated

Мне первая часть то не особо понравилась, но вторая - окончательно добила всякий интерес к данной франшизе. У них вообще что то х.уево с юмором. Он какой то чипушильный, как будто для бумеров с умственными отклонениями, если в первой части было терпимо смаковать второсортные юморески, то во второй невыносимо слушать даже простые диалоги и эту кудахтающую выпи3дь, застрявшую в мозгах у гг. Геймплей - обрыганная, однообразная дрочёрня с элементами прокачки(как в ссаном бодерленсе), неинтересный, унылый затянутый сюжет. Дроп

Прикольная игрушка, бегаешь стреляешь там катаной всех кромсаешь, тупо влажная мечта 12-летнего nиздюка, но очень быстро надоела, без негатива.

Game is now a pseudo looter-shooter. Enemy units are annoying and have way too much hp. There is always no ammo so you need to use sword more, but the sword itself sucks, compared to sw1. New companion is just bland compared to Hoji.

游戏是好游戏，很爽，很血腥，但是有几个重大缺点，先观察再决定是否购入 1：游戏亮度十分逆天，亮的地方及其亮，暗的地方p都看不清 2：晕3D的请勿尝试。这个游戏的视角晃动极大，而且不可调。我玩了15年电子游戏，第一次晕3D 3：关卡同质化严重，就是堆怪，你和怪的唯一互动性就是换武器切对应属性打怪 不过这游戏才十几块，瑕不掩瑜，自己斟酌吧兄弟们

没玩过的买这一个就行了，其他部可以不买，玩法一样，玩久了就很无聊，很罐头

What do you mean, this has Zora Neale-Hurston quotes in it? What do you mean they come out of a fortune cookie that plays a little zither jingle when you pick it up? What were the developers trying to say? Probably nothing, actually, because there's so much random quote fill in the fortune cookies that I think they just took a list of things famous people have said and plugged them in. It's an improvement over the Confucius say jokes, but oh those are still in there too. The devs took a shaky step away from racial caricaturing and landed right in the void. How does it play, though? Well, the environment graphics are gorgeous. The weather effects are lovely. The soundtrack is nice background ambiance that knows how to dynamically shift tempo. A lot of Shadow Warrior (2013)'s odd design choices have been sanded down to make movement and weapon rotation and ammo management and sword comboing buttery smooth. So, uh, predictably it's the everything else that's wrong. Shadow Warrior 2 feels like they had a pretty decent game half made and then the CEO played Borderlands 2 and the dev team had to abruptly shift vision because the point of failure on any creative endeavor is always the C-suite. This thing wasn't made to support being a looter shooter, and it shows. The elements don't blend, the otherwise pretty tightly imagined combat is flaccid as hell, enemies are samey, the writing is trying way too hard to get that Borderlands-y ironic lilt while not at all cracking that what made BL2 work writing-wise was the genuine feeling under the surface irony. Also. The UI. I haven't seen it this bad in a AA. I rarely see it this bad in the indie. I thought I'd softlocked myself because of how poorly presented the dialog choice system is and while I'm an idiot I'm also not the only person who's done that. You have to double click to select dialog options. And the other menus feel kludgy and threadbare as well. As if the whole looter shooter customization system was kinda rammed in at the last minute. Oh, and the DLC. People *loved* Borderlands 2 dlc. So how did we expand and innovate on that here? Fight rat in alley. This might be the worst DLC I've seen for anything. It's just random 'kill x enemy' missions. And they did two packs of it. The DLC missions are tedious and lay bare how much the combat in SW2 sucks---you just circle strafe with your blades spamming left click, and go to range when an enemy does a damage aura, and nothing really matters. I do think that if you get this thing for free, there's some brain off fun to be had. It has a bunch of ideas that are pretty close to interesting, and the graphical execution is quite competent. However, I think you're better off playing one of the good Borderlands or any indie boomershooter. Shadow Warrior 2 doesn't really have any strengths to recommend it on. Edit: Oh, I guess they also haven't fixed the crashing as of 2026. It's not frequent, but it also doesn't happen for any discernable reason, so you'll kinda just sometimes get booted to desktop for jumping. And while we're talking about the movement tech, did you know that dash-spamming is faster than your sprint? Kinda doody. Also so many enemies spawn on top of each other that you're heavily incentivized to use melee weapons (which is fine, the melee combo system is interesting) but then the melee combo system doesn't seem to actually be related to your melee weapon's damage, it scales based off of the individual powers, and actually hitting anything in Shadow Warrior 2 with a melee sucks because every enemy your size has a deflect, an i-framed dodge, a flashstep, and a shove. And anything on a tether is worse because it's constantly phasing out of existence and immuning your attacks in order to phase back in two paces away in a random direction. Quantum a$$ enemy positioning. They managed to make Borderlands combat annoying. Borderlands combat is practically a flavorless meal how did you do this. 2nd Edit: Rolled credits. Fully half of my playtime was doing the stupid bounty quests. Also the plot kinda just ends. It's a short game if you don't artificially pad it. The thing that gets me, though, is that the arcs for the characters aren't actually bad. They're missing a whole bunch of middle, but I can see how they'd be solid if they had that. "We need to allow the world to change, we can't just hold on to the way we wish things had been," is a reasonable message, but it's jammed in at the last second with no real support. The writing also feels chopped. You'll get a dialog with a character where you're at each other's throats, and then the next dialog you're old friends, and then the next dialog it's like you've never met each other before. It doesn't even feel like they had the same writer do all the dialog in the same quest. And there's some wild threads that get built up and then completely dropped, or characterizations that appear out of the blue and then evaporate. Ameonna showing up to the Wang Zilla fight to be a fujoshi is weird? It's neat that the writers are talking about how they've got a more complicated dynamic than your average fps boss and hero, but it's like two minutes of her monologuing about how that must mean they're into each other, and Wang and Zilla basically don't interact at any other point during the game. And Ameonna has an extended sidequest about how someone took a video of her bathing and they're going to release it if you go after them, but then you go after them and actually it's a sex tape, and you destroy it but then actually she wanted to release it. Did three people write this without getting to look at each other's work? It wouldn't stand out so much if there was more game here, but there isn't. Again, this is like 7 hours of game and 8 hours of kill rat in alley bounty quests. And the hitboxes are scuffed. And the enemies are boring. And you get trapped in cutscene dialog hell for five minutes every time you start a quest. Play EYE Divine Cybermancy instead.

好玩，推荐购买（晕3D慎入） 体验感爆棚的一代爽游，武器多种多样，且每一样都带给我以新奇感，想要去装备上体验一番 优化不错，核显本也能在画质不错的情况下畅玩 总的来说，等其在打一折的时候买了好好把玩一番，绝对是一笔划算的交易

Combates muy caóticos y entretenidos la historia regular, lo recomiendo solo si quieres mucha acción y no pensar mucho. Aunque si que es verdad que las misiones secundarias se hacen repetitivas, pero por el resto bien.