Whereas 2013’s Shadow Warrior had the distinction of being one of the few first-person titles with all-around solid melee combat, SW3’s swordplay is no more useful than knifing your foes in Call of Duty or Battlefield. Its swordplay is woefully underdeveloped. However, this is the kind of game that needs to do a little more than just have good shooting. The guns are fun to use, varied, easy to switch between, and they all make your foes explode in delightfully gory ways. So, how is it as a shooter? Pretty solid. I hardly felt compelled to swing my sword or use my grappling hook because, well, they didn’t feel useful in the normal course of gameplay. Throughout my playthrough, I gradually relied more and more on simply gunning my way through SW3’s enemy hordes – a tactic that brought me a great deal of success. However, many of the game’s mechanics feel as if they exist more for show rather than practicality. The first few times you slice up an opponent, shoot through them like you’re trying to make swiss cheese, or use your Chi Blast to effectively force-push them into a wall of spikes, it makes you feel really good. It wastes no time outfitting you with various abilities to utilize in combat, and I had quite a blast figuring out creative ways to use them. Shadow Warrior 3 makes a pretty strong impression at the start. To be frank, the story is pretty insignificant the real draw here is killing waves of enemies with guns, swords, and special moves. You play as Lo Wang – an immature assassin who you might as well call “Deadpool Lite” – as you work to defeat an ancient dragon. Shadow Warrior 3 is a fast-paced first-person shooter that follows up the stories from both 2013’s Shadow Warrior reboot as well as its 2016 sequel, Shadow Warrior 2.
However, that’s not to say it necessarily goes back to the first game’s roots it feels more like a response to last decade’s reboot of Doom, and not a particularly good one at that. This is most apparent when comparing the second game’s ill-received, lite looter-shooter nature with Shadow Warrior 3’s more linear, straightforward gameplay. In part, it answers for some of Shadow Warrior 2’s misgivings. Shadow Warrior 3 is an awfully reactionary game.
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