Shadow Warrior 3: Definitive Edition Reviews

The worst of the shadow warrior trilogy. Honestly it was just bad overall. What a sad end to an overall fun trilogy.

Good Story, Top class voice acting, Great Graphics, lots of weapons to choose my style of play plus hack and slash by sword is awesome combination. Enjoyed every second I played this game. Ending is Epic as well. I would hardly recommend entire Shadow Warrior series to anyone who is into action type of game. Shadow Warrior 3 is cherry on the cake best amongst entire shadow warrior series so far.

[h3]Can't decide what it wants to be[/h3] It's like throwing Serious Sam in a blender with DOOM Eternal, and sprinkling in a bunch of MMO gameplay with difficulty by bullet-sponginess. You'd think some of this might make for a tasty drink, but what's poured out with about the pacing grace of oatmeal occasionally quickening up with a splash of unidentifiable liquids that are definitely not any of the trope-naming media is not palatable. At least it's pretty, for a hot mess of pureed tropes, clashing gameplay styles, and full of visuals that you won't have the slightest moment to appreciate with all the pacing whiplash. At least assuming you've got a decent GPU to brute force your way through the Unreal engine non-optimization here. RIP Shadow Warrior. Deserved a better end.

It's fine? Shadow Warrior 3 is a perfectly serviceable "go fast and shoot things" kinda game, with most enemies appearing in arenas where you can platform, stunt and shoot all over the place. You got your katana and several weapons, like a Revolver and Shotgun or even a Shuriken Spitter, and several enemy types trying to stop you, Wang, while you are on your way to stop the end of the world. And while Shadow Warrior 1 was a straightforward, fantastic boomer shooter and Shadow Warrior 2 was a randomly generated looter shooter hodgepodge, Shadow Warrior 3 is a Doom 2016 / Doom Eternal Clone with arena fights, finishers and platforming. As one may be used to with Shadow Warrior, the story is full of bad jokes, dated pop culture references and Wang making a Wang out of himself. It lacks a bit of "zing" in this game and often feels more like "hello fellow kids" than anything else, but whatever. After about 6 hours of going through 11 (admittedly often very beautiful) set pieces, it's over and that's kind of it. It looks good, though it often lacks a bit of polish, and the game plays fine, but it just lacks a bit of variety in gameplay and upgrades, and is way too short to really leave any impact. It just kind of made me want to play Doom Eternal again, because it often feels like the same game, down to the platforming. And it works, it's fun, but it also left me wanting a bit more than it delivered, if that makes sense. If you want to hack'n'slash some demons and listen to soul-hurting dialogue for a few hours, then Shadow Warrior 3 delivers, but don't expect much more than that - a serviceable, if slightly lacking, shooter that just makes me wish that the franchise would return to its great roots.

Asian Deadpool. Dragons, Raccoons, and a few good song references. Sadly, it's quite short (10 hours with just 3 achievements left) unlike 18h on Shadow Warrior 1, and 36h on Shadow Warrior 2 (you may guess which one is my favourite). It has no coop but it's still enjoyable. 7/10

The shooting feels great and the execution weapons are a blast but the dialogue is so bad an there is so much of it. The gunfights are enjoyable but broken up by mid platforming segments where the upgrade points are easily passed by. The boss fights suck.

Another mediocre offering in the shadow warrior reboot trilogy. A pretty shallow but not entirely mindless doom eternal clone with a janky platforming, spread through 11 crash badicoot-esque levels. Has only two (pretty decently designed) boss fights and a catchy OST. On the gameplay and audio-visual merits alone I would recommend this game, provided you'll be able to buy it with a satisfying discount. So, why the negative review then? The characters. Enjoyable buddy comedy dynamics with a little bit of drama at the end is what elevates the first game in the trilogy above mediocrity for me. In SW 3, however, Lo Wang and Hoji are entirely different people (or, you know, demons) devoid of any chemistry they've had prior, with the game trying to convince you that this is what character growth is supposed to look like. And oh my god, they never shut the fuck up, constantly spouting pop culture references, you've heard one too many times already in every other media in existence, and all in all being very annoying whiny pricks. The crass humor was neutered to the point of (and I'm not kidding) baby poo poo jokes (yes, this is in the game, I'm not making it up). In spirit this is not a Shadow warrior game, they should've named it reddit warrior instead!

To start with the summary: It's a bad Doom: Eternal copy. It tries the same formual but doesn't really get it and it feels somehow just wrong for a Shadow Warrior game, especially the "arena" style combat with enemies (since it's nearly the only fights you get, there is hardly any encountering enemies while traversing through the world). The biggest flaw that: The fight areas are way too small! The feel tiny compared to the remake Doom games. Not even Wang's trademark talking can save it. To me the first game of the remake trilogy was a masterpiece compared to this one and a real Shadow Warrior game. Which is my advice: If you want the feeling of playing a Shadow Warrior game, replay either that one or even Redux of '97 one. First and foremost I'm disappointed, I was really looking forward to this one.

This game is ok. The second one was WAY better. Better world, better story, just better overall. There is a massive gap in the story from the 2 to the third, some of the characters from the 2nd, are just gone. What happened to them? Poor story telling.

[h1]The Worst FPS I've Ever Played[/h1] Shadow Warrior 3 is my entry point to the series and honestly, I hated this game with my guts. I don't even know where to start because it disappointed me on every level. I don't usually get this annoyed with games but this one really earned it. Since this was my first time playing a Shadow Warrior game, I had no expectations or nostalgia. I went in completely fresh. I even heard good things about it but it turned out to be a repetitive mess. [h3]Gameplay Is a Dumbed Down Mess[/h3] The combat feels like a weak Doom Eternal ripoff but without any of the depth or satisfaction that game provides. You are thrown into one boring arena after another, kill brain-dead enemies with the same moves, and it just keeps going forever. There is zero strategy, zero tension, just spam, dash, and shoot. It gets old after literally 20 minutes and stays that way for the entire game. Nothing evolves, nothing surprises you. Same annoying enemies throughout the game. [h3]Extremely Repetitive and Terrible Level Design[/h3] This is one of the laziest games I have ever played when it comes to level design. It is the same crap for 6 hours, it's unbelievable! Run a straight empty path, get locked in an arena, fight waves and waves and waves of the same enemies, then move to the next empty hallway and repeat. There is nothing creative or clever to it. The platforming sections are bad too. It's like a bad mobile game stretched into a full release. It was extremely tiring. Horrible core gameplay loop. [h3]Story[/h3] I had no issues with Lo Wang unlike other people, he didn't annoy me much. The story itself is generic and nothing worth talking about. [h3]Graphics and Optimization[/h3] The visuals are fine, nothing impressive. Some of the gore effects look cool but the art style is super bland. The optimization is okay. [h3]Final Thoughts[/h3] Shadow Warrior 3 is the worst FPS game I have ever played. I cannot believe people complain this game is too short, because 5-6 hours playing this felt like the longest 5-6 hours of my life. For a game this bad, even 30 minutes would be too much, and it somehow stretched to around 5 hours. It was easily one of the most boring, soulless, annoying games I have ever finished. I have no idea how this even got released. [h1]BROKEN MEDAL[/h1] Follow My [URL=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40523765-Bearsonal/]Curator Page For More Reviews ⚜️[/URL]