![]() ![]() ![]() That gamble is to trust that the movement and combat of the first game were strong enough to support a loot-laden first-person ARPG setup. Shadow Warrior 2 isn't an unqualified success but its big gamble pays off handsomely. Part Borderlands, part interactive chainsaw massacre, it throws everything at the wall and hopes there's enough blood to make most of it stick.Īnd stick it does. It was the best of the old and the best of the new.įor their sequel, Flying Wild Hog have kept the fundamentals but built an entirely different game atop them. The 2013 reboot succeeded because it took the principles of a nineties FPS and dragged them kicking and bleeding into the twenty-first century, adding superb melee combat controls, a well thought-out upgrade system, but sticking with linear levels packed with easter eggs and secrets. Shadow Warrior 2 could have gone horribly wrong. ![]()
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