While I enjoyed my 5 hours playing it, I find it hard to recommend this game to anyone.
If you played Shadowgrounds, and didnt like it, you likely wont like this one as well. It is sliiightly better gameplay vise, because I think some AI got improved slightly, enemy placement were harder to fight off, but that could be because I played on hard difficulty this time instead of normal. If you DID like Shadowgrounds, you might be disappointed by how short it is(yes, 5 hours is the whole singleplayer story, theres a few survival maps but I didnt bother with them, since thats not why I liked original shadowgrounds)
And while there was slight improvements in gameplay, there are some downsides too. Like how now you cant use all your weapons from the original game, because some guns didnt make transition into this game(like lightning gun, laser, grenade launcher), and remaining guns that did make the cut(pistol, pulse rifle, flamethrower, shotgun, minigun, rocket launcher, energy sniper rifle) all are divided between 3 playable characters. Two of these characters use pistol, so just like in original game, you'll get bored of using pistol a ton. But this time you WILL be forced to use pistol because sometimes you'll get swarmed by waves after waves of enemies(especially during sniper lady sections). So what ends up happening is that you gonna mostly use pistol, pulse rifle, flamethrower, shotgun, energy sniper rifle. The rest of the weapons are gonna be used very rarely since game rarely gives those guns ammo. Not so fun fact, one of the pistol upgrades is bugged, I think its lock on upgrade, so if you upgrade it, then you cant use pistol anymore... Check forums to avoid it
AND this game has only one official boss fight(and it sucks, cus he's dumb). They got replaced with you being surrounded, and get constantly attacked from everywhere. It was kinda fun, but it gets repetitive.
If you got this game from shadowgrounds bundle when it went for 90% off, I guess its fine to try, or if you have friends to play co op. But besides that I find little reason to recommend playing it, let alone buying it.
