L.G.C. |Reviews| — Shadow Warrior

This week your intrepid heroes kill bunnies, make Wang jokes, and track down the Kobayashi Maru. Shadow Warrior faces the CHAIRQUISITION!

Game: Shadow Warrior
Webzone: http://www.shadowwarrior.com/
Devel: Flying Wild Hog
Engine: Road Hog Engine
Price: €24.99 / $39.99 / $43.99 CAD

Wazzat: Shadow Warrior is a bold reimagining of the classic 3D Realms’ shooter from independent developer Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset) starring the legendary and quick-witted warrior Lo Wang. Combine the brute force of overwhelming firepower with the elegant precision of a katana to annihilate the merciless armies of the shadow realm in an exhilarating and visually stunning transformation of the classic first-person shooter.

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CHAIRQUISITION:
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– Shutupandtakemymonies

Makes with the working

V-

Considering this was ported by Knockout Games (one guy) it’s hella amazing.
The only issue I had on day 1 was the gerbil input being wonky and that was sorted in 24hrs.
The next day all the graphical whatnots were added …bonus soda!

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Installed stupid-easy, I just ran the script and boom – success.
After logging off the game and then returning, it did black screen on me once.
Overall, it ran well and I didn’t find myself fooling with the settings.

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

You know, at 4K running between 45/70 FERPS you’re not exactly begging for additional graphics option.
My eye-organs bleed with delight.
The random discussions between Hoji and Wang sells this business.

J-

I agree with Venn, Hoji and Wang are a great duo
Likewise, the voice acting is great
The game looks really good, but I’m not exactly blown away

P-

Linux is missing more than a couple of graphics options.
- You can technically still enable them through the in-game console. But, if I’m typing out commands to enable shit you disabled because you didn’t have enough trust on your porting abilities, I’m going to have to ding it a chair.

M-

Game was pretty enough that I honestly considered pissing into a bottle instead of Esc-keying from the game to take a leak.
Attention to detail left the eyes doing double takes. It’s the little things….like breaking random stuff.

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Control

V-

I genuinely thought the aa ss dd ww combo bit would be annoying …It wasn’t
After you buff the skills and get the second Kobayashi Maru all you need to do is find a choke-point in the level-organ, press SS and things die.

J-

Standard FPS fare for the most part
I do like how the ki powers were handled. Doesn’t really interrupt gameplay at all

P-

I have the side buttons on my Roccat Kova[+] defined as R Q | E F
The game recognizes Q and F without a problem, E and R not so much.
The weird thing is that the options menu recognizes when I click those buttons and try to map them to the appropriate actions.
- I push the front right button and it registers the E key. Or the front left and it sees the R.
- In-game though, nope!
No matter how much I fuck around with the mouse sensitivity options, I can’t seem to get it to a point where it doesn’t feel weird.
- Which leads me to believe there is some form of mouse acceleration or deceleration happening and I’m not given the option to disable it.
  - There’s a Mouse smoothing option there, but it only made it worse for me.

M-

Controls were great with the mouse/keys. Yet I wanted “more” mobility overall during the game play.
On the plus side, I didn’t need to rage-quit as most of the default key bindings weren’t half bad.
Advanced controls took getting used to, but they grew on me after a bit.

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FUN

V-

I would give it 4 but there is a bit of a lull around the seven hour mark.
Who the FK ALL am I kidding! This is stupid fun!

J-

This is a really solid shooter.
The game throws a fuckton of enemies at you, but the healing mechanic makes it very manageable. It’s useful, but not stupid overpowered
Honestly, this game has basically everything I want. Cutting people into tiny pieces with swords, it runs great under linux, and is filled with copious amounts of dick jokes.

P-

This is one of very few genuinely good games that I can’t seem to enjoy.
I played the first 4 levels and I was bored.
It did get a few chuckles out of me but, honestly, I came to the point where I would rather watch the bunnies fuck than actually finish the level I was on.
I’d give it a 7 in the Wang-meter but when it comes to chairs, 2 is the highest fun I had.

M-

I’m likely going to be up all night playing this title. I haven’t had this much fun in a loooong time.
I too, found it gave me a stiffy on the Wang-o-Meter. Sword and a gun with accurate sighting – hell yes!

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