CREDIT: Devolver Digitalīeing simplistic isn’t an issue for a game. It’s hard to make something deeper when the source material was as shallow as a yokai-infested puddle. Ultimately, Shadow Warrior is caught between the desire to make a modern game and insistence on not losing its identity, but this becomes a problem when the identity of the game was always a stereotype. Lo Wang still spouts cheesy one-liners ripped out of bad ’90s video games, and the rampant orientalism leaves no real room for a thought out story. Unfortunately, the writing and story achieves the opposite effect. The first hour or so leaves a striking impression that really captures why these shooters are so beloved – they are equally great to play or as a spectator sport. You are constantly moving through a slideshow of set pieces, only pausing to check over that really cool clip you just recorded. In a sense, Shadow Warrior 3 reminds me of one of those arcade rail shooters.
He twirls them while leaping from platform to platform, switching weapons at a moment’s notice. Guns pack a punch both physically and visually, looking great in Lo’s hands. The gameplay is possibly the best that Shadow Warrior has ever felt: really encapsulating what people like about these games. The game immediately starts out with high-stakes action and this doesn’t stop until it’s finished four hours later.
In a surprisingly great tutorial, you have to live through his failure to take the dragon down learning your moves, weapons and abilities as you go. Taking place years after the events of the second game, protagonist Lo Wang is left depressed, alone and slowly going mad after releasing a dragon on the world. READ MORE: ‘Blood West’ is an intriguing, if perhaps overambitious, sandbox shooter.Unfortunately, Shadow Warrior 3 relies on both the best of the genre and all those things we should have left behind in the ’90s. Harking back to the days of old, it tends to describe a certain flow to the game – encapsulated by the lack of ADS and floaty fast movement. If the price comes down then it will be a blast to play through on one Saturday or Sunday, but if there’s a fourth game on the way, then there’s a lot of room for improvement.The term ‘Boomer Shooter’ is one used with love in the games industry. Lo Wang is certainly not the most memorable or likable protagonist ever seen, but I appreciate Flying Wild Hog’s intentions. The first half of the game is an enjoyable, constantly growing, and expanding experience that runs out of ideas towards the end. Somewhere in Shadow Warrior 3 is a meaty FPS that is trying to move forward with the times but struggles to keep consistent as technical problems and a muddied presentation mar the game’s strengths. It’s all stuff that’s surely going to be patched, but it serves to highlight the duality between gameplay and the cutscenes. I’m not kidding, the final spoken words of the game were lagging five seconds behind the actual animations themselves. Lip-syncing is horribly off and they undermine any beauty found in Shadow Warrior 3’s actual gameplay. They are so ugly that you actually want to skip them. Read More: Babylon’s Fall review – Soulless RPG is just not fun to playĬolorful areas really catch the eye and create a baffling dichotomy between gameplay and cut-scenes.For a game that hasn’t been publicized as much or received as much press and hype, it was rife with lush terrain intertwined with some truly gorgeous backdrops. Shadow Warrior 3 suffers from Jekyll & Hyde syndromeĪt times, I found Shadow Warrior 3 to be beautiful and shockingly so. Flying Wild Hog Cut-scenes generally leave a lot to be desired.
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