Shadow Warrior

Between the game’s graphics, gameplay, and $40 price tag, Shadow Warrior is a definite buy. It offers hours of gory, hack-and-slash fighting, and focuses on just being a really fun game. If you are looking for developed characters or a story you can really get into, Shadow Warrior might not be for you.

Shadow Warrior is a game that you simply must own, because it represents a by gone era where videogames didn’t take themselves at all seriously. And we all need a bit of fun in our lives.

If you’re looking for humour and a bucket load of fun in this busy gaming period, then look no further than Shadow Warrior.

Shadow Warrior is a great game full with blood, gore and a lot of one-liners. It has some great action, but the implementation of the touch pad on the PlayStation 4 doesn't work well and a little bit more of variation wouldn't kill.

Lo Wang's return is highly enjoyable, even though the controls aren't as responsive as they should be and the gameplay lacks variation. Ah well, you can't have everything, I suppose.

Harkening back to a bygone era, Flying Wild Hog’s nostalgic re-imagining of Shadow Warrior is filled to the brim with bad words, b-grade jokes, buckets of blood, bullets and blades. And sometimes, that’s all a gamer needs.

Thanks to an old-school style and humour, Shadow Warrior makes the difference with all these modern FPS which keep showing off.

It's undeniably simple. [Christmas 2014, p.88]

Shadow Warrior is without a doubt a big, dumb thrill ride. It isn’t looking to push the boundaries of what we can expect from a video game narrative, but could have perhaps invested a bit more in keeping its blade sharp through more diverse enemy types and combos. However, even with that said, even a dull blade is fun to swing around at times.

Shadow Warrior is an entertaining game, perhaps limited in it's technical possibilities, but perfect to have a great time listening bad jokes, tearing apart demon limbs with a katana and shooting around. Pretty straightforward. It won't give you anything new, but it won't disappoint you.

It's a good action game, and it has one single aim: make sure the player has fun. It feels a little bit pricey, but it's worth checking out if you miss 90's action games.

Shadow Warrior is a good shooter that stands out for its humor and fast-paced action, and that's enough to satisfy fans of FPS until something more substantial.

Shadow Warrior isn't a classic, but it's a game that exists in an area that we rarely see these days, and is great fun to mess about with.

As a smarter-than-it-looks nostalgia trip, then, Shadow Warrior delivers, and as long as you keep that in mind - and consume it in moderation - it's an easy recommendation.

The 'humour' occasionally feels flat. [Christmas 2014, p.78]

It may need help to stand tall, but when it's pumped with blood, it rocks. [Christmas 2014, p76]

The talent is there, and it's wasted on a game like this which, fun as it is, doesn't live up to the promise of its screenshots.

For a game obsessed with OTT violence and knob gags this is a surprisingly charming and likeable shooter, if an unavoidably shallow and repetitive one.