Shadow Warrior Reviews
I kept going back to it this time and found myself getting swept up in cathartic violence and juvenile insults for hours at a time.
For a game obsessed with OTT violence and knob gags this is a surprisingly charming and likeable shooter, if an unavoidably shallow and repetitive one.
This is a budget production, and it's worth noting that aside from a lack of multiplayer there's a lot of content in Shadow Warrior, so it more than justifies its cheaper asking price. It's worth having on the shelf as a curiosity, but I do hope that the development team at the heart of this game decide to do something more genuine and mature next time around. The talent is there, and it's wasted on a game like this which, fun as it is, doesn't live up to the promise of its screenshots.
Shadow Warrior is more than just puerile jokes and demons – there are some quite interesting technical faults in there as well. The personality of the game is enough to recommend to those that enjoy old-school shooters, but it comes with a warning: Wang should probably be taken in small doses.
What you have here is a game that isn't big, nor is it clever, but it really is absolutely a joy to play. It looks good visually and just plays really well. Humour is well placed and doesn't really ever start to get too much. Shadow Warrior is a game that you simply must own, because it represents a by gone era where videogames didn't take themselves at all seriously. And we all need a bit of fun in our lives.