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Every character may well have an agenda, but they are not too proud to admit when it may not be in their best interests to pursue it – allowing a somewhat warm tale of human nature to form the core of this tale.

What follows is a curiously flawed set of hare-brained schemes and failures, all anchored by Lo Wang learning about trust and hope. It is this uneasy alliance that plants the seed for character development within the game.

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Thankfully Zilla (former antagonist and well known series Asshole) turns up and offers a truce to perhaps stop the dragon from eating the entire world. Turns out the giant dragon from the end of Shadow Warrior 2 is a real bastard to kill, and the epic failure on Wang’s part has left him feeling washed up and pathetic. The third instalment reaches deep into its own mythology to take another step into the absurd nature of its storytelling, finding the protagonist Lo Wang alone in his ruined Wang Cave – moping about in his underpants.

This time we see a pretty savage crank on the tone knob, blasting a severe injection of colour and zaniness into the IP – and it works. Starting off as a fun but overtly stereotyped DOOM clone in 1997, the rebooted version from 2013 managed to identify what made it neat and focus on its strengths, ditching the racism to instead form a modern foundation as a series that continues to one-up itself and surprise me time and time again. I’m happy to report though that there are just enough differences to make SW3 feel like a really good Doom Eternal mod.Shadow Warrior is a franchise I have always been rooting for. You have the same dodge ability as Doom, you have a similar loadout of weapons, and even enemy types are reminiscent of the Doomslayer’s foes. While Shadow Warrior has never felt better as a shooter it’s pretty much Doom Eternal. There’s also glory kills now ala Doom Eternal and this, while a welcome change, raises an interesting question - can a game that is a near carbon copy stand on its own merits? Now though you’ll be wall running, sliding, and grappling your way through environments. There’s also been some upgrades to movement as previous games had you firmly stuck to the ground. SW3 doesn’t offer a riveting story, it plods forward without any surprises or a real hook, and ends as generically as it begins. Which is fine, SW3’s combat has been finely tuned, but it takes so many pages from Doom Eternal’s playbook it begs the question of why people shouldn’t just go play that game instead. Lo Wang is pretty much asian Deadpool on this go-round, complete with red leather jacket.īy the time the credits had rolled I didn’t feel much beyond “that was a video game”. I give the developers a pass for the most part because who’s going to shell out a ton of money for a decent comedy writer when that cash could be spent on programmer salaries? With the third game they’ve effectively rebooted Lo Wang yet again and cut back on some of the cringe one-liners. The developers are in a bit of a bind because in order to pay homage to the original game, their Lo Wang has to be a surly wisecracker too and writing effective comedy is a very tricky thing indeed. You see, Lo Wang is basically just asian Duke Nukem but unfortunately the era when you could bombard your audience with fart and dick jokes is long past.

And going back to play the previous games for this review I can’t help but wonder why Shadow Warrior and its wisecracking protagonist Lo Wang (yes, his name is a penis joke) was ever revived from the obscure annals of gaming history to begin with.ĭespite very positive reviews for both Shadow Warrior 1 and 2 on Steam, if you play these games today you’re in for a fairly generic FPS romp with a heavy sheen of far east aesthetics (most levels look like the inside of a Benihana) and some of the most cringeworthy dialogue ever uttered in a video game. What began as a Duke Nukem clone and later revived by studio Flying Wild Hog and publisher Devolver in 2013 now has a third installment. Shadow Warrior has had something of a strange journey as a franchise.