![]() STORYFive years have passed since Lo Wang shattered the alliance between his deceitful former boss and the ancient gods of the shadow realm. Battle alongside allies online in four-player co-op or go it alone in spectacular procedurally-generated landscapes to complete daring missions and collect powerful new weapons, armor, and arcane relics of legend. ![]() Now surviving as a reclusive mercenary on the edge of a corrupted world, the formidable warrior must again wield a devastating combination of guns, blades, magic and wit to strike down the demonic legions overwhelming the world. ![]() Jabbing them with a sharp stick is always a nice backup.Shadow Warrior 2 is the stunning evolution of Flying Wild Hog’s offbeat first-person shooter following the further misadventures of former corporate shogun Lo Wang. So the question is always, do you stick with the weapons that you know and like, or should you branch out and level up a wide range of weapons, just so that you always have an option? Well, given that some of the arsenal were guns, and some of them blades, it made sense to me to have a few options, as I always found it tricky to find enough ammo for the vast numbers of bad guys that needed perforating. I believe that there were around seventy different weapons to be found, bought and utilised, and in a nice kind of an RPG style effect, using a weapon could level it up, making it more effective. Now, the main draw of the Shadow Warrior games has always been the absolutely over the top action, and SW2 certainly didn’t disappoint in this respect. And yes, it does get stranger from there on out, don’t you worry. ![]() Starting with the story, Lo Wang, our protagonist, is a somewhat disrespectful warrior, prone to speaking first and thinking, well, never! He is something of a hired gun for the Yakuza, and as such is given missions to go on and objectives to achieve these usually lead him into a lot more trouble than he may have expected.Īt the start of the game, the story is that we have to rescue the daughter of the Yakuza boss, but due to various reasons that are too long winded to go into but make perfect sense when you are playing through it, Lo Wang ends up with the soul of the daughter – Kamiko – inhabiting his body, while her body, which has been mutated by the people in the Zilla labs, goes on the rampage. ![]()
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