These are limited-time use items that are supposed to be powerful rewards for using a precious resource. And there are, of course, “finishers.” These lock you into an overly-long, mid-tier animation that kills the enemy and steals their “gore weapon.” There’s a “chi-blast” ability you can use to create some distance or sling barrels of elemental ordinance at enemies that I literally forgot existed about an hour in. It’s more than a bit derivative, with an arsenal of the usual suspects like a revolver, a shotgun, machine guns, and a grenade launcher.
Let’s start with the obvious - the shooting here is pretty fun. Unfortunately, it’s stuck in the past in more ways than one. In fact, Shadow Warrior 3 harkens back to a simpler time of the humble single-player shooter, even more so than its contemporary, Doom Eternal. Just booting up a title like Shadow Warrior 3 and being propelled into a fresh save with minimal riffraff a la announcements, content updates, or premium passes is a nice change of pace.
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Shadow Warrior 3 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.There’s something refreshing about a simple game nowadays. Shadow Warrior 3 is simply a good game, but it accomplishes every task a video game should do quickly and without effort. There’s virtually no decision-making but a whole lot of killing enemies, watching pretty colors go off on the screen, and having uncomplicated fun. There’s no planning required here, just holding W and Mouse 1 as I plow through enemies.īest of all is that I didn’t have to apply any critical thinking to Shadow Warrior 3. But they’re still weapons! Melee or otherwise, it’s just another flavor of what’s already in the game. You can perform executions on enemies that rip weapons straight out of their bodies, which you can then turn on the demonic hordes. That linearity is a great reprieve from the open-world objective fests that so many AAA games are.Įven when Shadow Warrior 3 tries to do something new, it doesn’t really change the game all that much, and that’s wonderful. And bless the game, because it doesn’t let you explore anywhere or do anything besides shoot enemies. You can chop them in half with your sword or blast them apart with one of the six guns you get. The game starts at a blistering pace, throwing players at demons invading the earth. It’s about as straightforward as you can get with a first-person shooter. That’s why Shadow Warrior 3 is so perfect, especially right now. New ideas are being introduced, and they have to be placed somewhere in the ever-growing game mechanic pantheon. They demand more attention, a weightier critique. They’re all something new, and while that’s exciting, it’s also pretty exhausting. Most of the games I mentioned try to revolutionize their respective genres in some way, or are marked by their inventive gameplay mechanics. Suffice it to say, things are pretty busy. The monster that is Elden Ring has a stranglehold on the entire industry. Horizon Forbidden West is getting heaps of praise for its evolution on the original game’s formula and beautiful graphics. Sifu and OlliOlli World have both come out and blown me away.
I’m writing this on February 18, smack-dab in the middle of the busiest month for games so far in 2022. Let me add some context to this weird line of praise I’ve got going on. You run, gun, and listen to Lo Wang spout off ever-grating ’90s references. There wasn’t a lull, a midgame slog, or anything other issue because the game isn’t that complicated. Not unlike a syndicated sitcom, Shadow Warrior 3 starts without a misstep, stays interesting throughout, and never slows down. In that way, Shadow Warrior 3 is kind of perfect.
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