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• SHADOW WARRIOR GAME ORIGINAL FULL

Shadow Warrior 3 does exactly what’s advertised on the cover, but I feel like it’s not enough when the price tag almost enters the full price zone. It’s refreshing to play a medium-budgeted single-player shooter so focused on delivering a short and sweet rollercoaster ride, but it’s hard to shrug off the feeling that Shadow Warriors 3‘s (excellent) platforming sections deserved their own space to shine, instead of being just small bits between Arena A and Arena B - DOOM Eternal understood the value of each of its parts and allowed players to breathe in between battles, packing memorable level design and secrets around every corner. In the same way, the gameplay has been refined to deliver hectic but tight shootin’ & slicin’ action that wastes no time with convoluted progression systems or exploration off the beaten path. Moreover, there are only four characters in the game (five if you count a spirit raccoon), with only two of them undergoing some sort of development, so many times you have to wonder if setting up the “antihero fighting self-doubt and depression” angle was even worth it for such a brisk and laser-focused action game. This is more than enough to fuel up five to six hours of classic FPS action, and some character beats (without getting into spoilers) are surprisingly poignant, but the narrative is generally kept to a minimum. The meager story hits the ground running with a massive ancient dragon threatening the entire planet and our potty-mouthed hero Lo Wang feeling down and unworthy of the status he built up across his two previous adventures. So much so that it lacks a unique personality in spite of the enjoyable blood-soaked breakneck action it offers from start to finish. Instead, they tried extremely hard to make it feel like this franchise’s DOOM Eternal. It seems like the developers listened to those concerns, as Shadow Warrior 3 is a big departure from the previous game. It was an evolution that mostly paid off, but a large number of veterans claimed maybe that wasn’t the path Shadow Warrior should follow.

While the Shadow Warrior reboot (2013) flew under the radar, as the original IP wasn’t that popular to begin with, Shadow Warrior 2 (2016) was a bigger success story that dared to introduce looter-shooter elements into the classic “boomer shooter” FPS formula. Many players still think of them as the team behind 2011’s Hard Reset, but the truth is they’ve had an amazing last decade, consistently playing their cards right and tinkering with different genres and systems.

Polish developer Flying Wild Hog are on a roll, quickly expanding beyond the borders of their rebooted Shadow Warrior games - Evil West and Trek to Yomi are among the most anticipated medium-sized releases launching in the near future. Lo Wang is back with the highly streamlined threequel of the rebooted Shadow Warrior saga.