Shadow Warrior 2 Reviews

For action, upgrades and powers, this game eclipses the first in all those areas. The MP (especially coop) is also fantastic and a step up from #1, so I highly recommend this. On the flip side, it can't hold a candle to the first games narrative and characters, which, for me, is a far stronger motivation to finish first person shooters. The first SW's story was good and, heart breaking. It actually left you emotional. The only time I get emotional in this game is when I rage out over getting killed.

Its been enjoyable for me killing demon with katana and gun, till. it got stale i dont know its just not worth my time anymore, but its decent game tho

An arcade hack and slash. Fun to switch off and button smash, but if you're coming for a story it isn't here. If you enjoy the Doom franchise, I think this will be up you street. 6/10

Why did they turn a fun game into a looter shooter? But that's the least of your worries. The first game was corny, but this game is unbearable. The ear-grating characters and dialogue would make even Borderlands 3 blush. Shadow Warrior 2 has neither the touch nor the power

i played 53 hours 100% with side missions just mindless silly shooting lots of in your face action 89% fun factor .. if you can get it on sale even better...

So you can upgrade weapons with these "orbs of masamune", which I didn't see for an entire playthrough, which I then got in NG+ but in small quantity. It cost 17, then 200, then even more to upgrade a stat. I've been farming them for the painful 10,000 orbs achievement and im barely at half

Refund requested. Game puts a woman inside your brain who never stops talking. I cannot handle it. I am sorry. This horror game is too scary for me.

Truly a Horrid CO-OP experience. Little enemy variety, lackluster weapons, you get a million weapon gems, but very little of them matter. All the enemies are tanky, but not difficult. So it's just hitting a brickwall for way too long. The levels are built like shit, and can be confusing and slow to traverse. The mission tracking is godawful, so the objective furthest from you is highlighted first. The GPS has a little dotted line that is suppose to help you, but it's completely broken. The environments and the character models are beyond ugly. Many times me and my friend were so appalled by the horrid character models we forgot to skip the cutscenes. The writing consists of dumb millennial humor quips, and none of the characters are interesting or likable. Furthermore the overall story is dull and dragged out. I only played 17 hours, but it felt like at least 50. The Game crashed many times, and glitching into the environment was a common occurrence. A Slop game, and I mean that fully. The plus side is the game goes on sale for like 4$, so maybe you can trap a friend completing a slop game with you.

Boarderlands at home Fun lootshooter with great melee options as well, becomes repetitive quite quick tho but will probably still entertain you for like 20 hours at least Story is garbage which is a shame since I liked the plot of 1

Game starts by being extremely messy and overwhelming, bunch of weapons, materials and skills to upgrade thrown at you with barely any explanation. this confusion also spreads to the level design on most missions, stages and enemy placement on them feel completely random, traversing areas is just annoying. story feels like they've only spent 25 minutes on writing it, only time you're not gonna want to skip a cutscene is when ugliness of a character hypnotizes you. appeal of Shadow Warrior 2 is a simple loop of getting a better weapon and seeing bigger numbers on your screen and that's basically only force that's going to be moving you forward to finish the campaign, grind for a better gear. its built around a replay value but gameplay doesn't give you any satisfaction so it seems unimaginable to me to go for a ng+. (game beaten on "no pain no gain" difficulty) on top of all that, technical issues made it even more annoying, frequent crashes, disconnections, co-op mission once failed to reward both players, overall not a pleasant experience. good things about this game are weapon designs, they mostly look very cool, some areas are nice to look at and menu theme goes pretty hard. it was still fun to play with a friend but i can't let co-op enjoyment blind my judgement here, SW2 is a true abysmal dogs**t.