Surprisingly, the story – told through the oh-so-popular animated illustration manner (CGI turned out to be too expensive once people expected it to look good, that’s why cutscenes are always done like this these days) – has enough behind it to drive the rest of the game. ![]() I got the impression that I would somehow also save the world, but the game was never particularly clear about irrelevant details like that. From there, you begin to unlock powers, and piece together what is going on with the help of an amnesiac, wisecracking demon, Hoji. ![]() Naturally, this goes horribly wrong when a demonic transdimensional invasion happens at the same time. You start your day of henching and extortion by trying to retrieve a sacred sword – the Nobitsura Kage. You play “Lo Wang” (seriously), a reboot of the character from the original game, voiced by some guy who I suspect is in fact not from Asia. Actually I suppose that’s not really a buddy cop movie at all, but I’m too committed to give up on the comparison now. Shadow warrior is kind of like a buddy cop movie – only one of the cops is an immortal, banished demon, and the other is a sword master, closet nerd, and henchmen for an evil mob boss. Is this another cash in on nostalgia, or something more? Now, 16 years later, Shadow Warrior is back – re-imagined, re-charged and… uh… re-updated by independent polish studio Flying Wild Hog (who previously brought us Hard Reset). It was also a great game (and is now available for free on Steam!). They, in fact, made Shadow Warrior, essentially a Duke 3D Total Conversion with vastly more casual racism and a wafer thin plot. While Duke was a great game (which went on a sordid journey of its own), in the year that followed its release, 3D Realms didn’t sit on its laurels they reskinned and rebalanced the game into a pastiche of Asian kung-fu movie stylings. ![]() Cast your mind back to 1997 (if you weren’t alive back then, get off my lawn you pesky kids) Quake was ushering a new dawn of graphics (the much vaunted “origami in brown” look), and the last generation of 2.5D games were being released – one of which you may have heard of: Duke Nukem 3D.
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