Told largely through beautifully illustrated scenes, It’s a bit rubbish. The narrative is weaved together from bits of the original game’s story, and the typical nonsense generally appropriated from Asian cultures. In addition to slashing sword skills and gratuitously violent gun-play, Wang is able to use demonic magic to kick demon derriere. With the annoyingly-voiced, smart-mouthed companion demon Hoji, Wang has to reunite three parts of the Nobitsura Kage to put an end to the monstrous menace. It’s up to Wang, naturally, to rid the world of the myriad demons and save the planet. Things obviously go rather wrong, and the world is plagued by a demonic invasion. More a re-imagining than a remake, Flying Wild Hog’s Shadow Warrior tells the tale of Lo Wang, an assassin who’s sent by his corporate overlord boss Zilla to retrieve a legendary sword the mystical Nobitsura Kage. It knows it’s tacky, immature, B-grade schlock, and runs with it. And that’s probably one of its most redeeming qualities. Though the game dispenses with much of the adolescent, stereotypically racist humour of the original, it’s still as juvenile as ever, filled with bad words, buckets of blood, bullets, and blades. it’s all about a bad ass Asian bloke with a puerile racially charged named Lo Wang.
They’ve pretty much nailed it in their Shadow Warrior reboot. They seem to rather fancy the shooters of yore, having made Hard Reset, a shooter that tried in earnest to emulate that old-school appeal.
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The series has been given a thorough reboot kick in the balls thanks to the folks at Flying Wild Hog. It’s now out on consoles, and it’s a sterling port. When its reimagining was released on PC last year though, it was well received by fans of games from back then. Though it generated its own fans, it never quite managed the classic status of games like Duke Nukem 3D or Doom. Do you remember the halcyon FPS days in the 90’s? Where everything was a Doom clone – but among all of those clones and wannabes, we got games that could be considered classics in their own right? 3D Realms’ Shadow Warrior was not one of those games.
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