Shadow Warrior is definitely a good game and makes honor to the Old School genre, but there is also some room until it becomes a reference for the FPS genre, maybe its sequel will hit this target, wait and see.
I really enjoyed my time those 15 hours it took me to finish the game. But make no mistake I have a lot of fun playing the game, the story is actually pretty cool, the guns are very very fun and very different from one to another, so that you may kill demons the way you enjoy it most (my personal favorite was the katana) the difficulty is a true challenge in the hardest modes, there is a lot of collectibles (with hilarious fortune cookies) and some nice skills to learn. I'd also like more originality in level design for future games, Shadow Warrior lacks some sequences that will not allow the player to fall in the routine of "I enter in a room, I kill everything, I collect some health and ammo, I go to the other room." thanks god there is 3 boss in the game that will change that but that's it. I hope Flying Wild Dog will do better in the future.
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Well in the case of Shadow Warrior there is some minor errors that will get in the way of the ultimate fun, specially from the technical side, the graphics aren't good for a PS4 game and even with average graphics the game suffers of framerate drops, very long loading times and the most annoying things of all, bugs and one in particular that will stop Lo Wang (your character) to do any attacks and force you to kill yourself. Like the reboot of Wolfenstein and the coming Doom, Shadow Warrior is one of those old-school shooting games that comes back from hell to kick Like the reboot of Wolfenstein and the coming Doom, Shadow Warrior is one of those old-school shooting games that comes back from hell to kick our mind and remind us that they were too damned fun to play to disappear. Without the problems i would give this a 8.5 easily, for the sake of memories and nostalgic reasons. In this case however the problem seems to lie deep inside the game (engine?) itself i think, so hopefully future patches fix these issues. And i use a 1Tb 840 EVO SSD in my PS4, so i usually get slightly better performance than the gamers with stock 5400 rpm hdd. There are some performance problems occasionally tough, some levels even drop down to a crawl. So nothing mind blowing, but for a old-school games fans a guaranteed good time. Graphics and audio are nice enough, lots of gore, game-play is golden and the humor is alright. I enjoyed the original a lot when it came out back in the days, and this remaster shares a lot of the same magic the original had. At first i was going to buy this one from Steam-store, but for reasons unknown i did not. At first i was going to buy this one from Steam-store, but for reasons unknown i A very welcome addition to the PlayStation 4 game library. A very welcome addition to the PlayStation 4 game library.