

There is also a very robust custom upgrade system that allows you to upgrade the weapons in your arsenal with up to three stones at once to improve performance or augment them with devastating elemental effects.

It’s an intuitive system that works well and makes wading through the enormous amount of weapons that you find manageable. You can only have two of each type of weapon selected at a time, but it’s quick and easy to bring up the weapon wheel, make new selections and then get back to the action. Shadow Warrior 2 has provided a weapon wheel selection system that showcases all available weapons that you can snap to the triangle button for firearms and the L1 button for swords and blades. With so many weapons to choose from, you need a weapons system that makes it easy to not only chose which weapon combination you like to play with, but to be able to swap from one to the other on-the-fly.

You can go in silent like a ninja, or blasting your way through demon rib cages like Arnold Schwarzenegger on steroids. With that in mind, finding which weapon combination suits your play-style is only a matter of trying out every weapon that you stumble across. While you can make your way through the game just using your sword, this is a First Person Shooter through and through. Take your pick from pistols, shotguns, and machine guns to katanas, scythes and even a chainsaw to blast, slice and dice your way through the hordes of demons threatening the world. As you can probably guess, you take on the role of everyone’s favorite, smart mouthed corporate shogun, Lo Wang, in his quest to smite the demonic legions trying to take over the world and make right what has gone so terribly wrong.Īs anyone who has played the original Shadow Warrior can attest, this game is all about the weapons. The action is turned up to 1000 with a robust online cooperative campaign mode, scores of unique weapon combinations, and a stunning mix of hand-designed and procedurally generated worlds. If you played the first game, then you know what to expect with this follow-up. Developer Flying Wild Hog and publisher Devolver Digital have teamed up once again to grace the consoles of Wang fans everywhere. When Shadow Warrior 2 was released for PC last October, I couldn’t wait to play the over-the-top action-brawler on my PS4 my wait is finally over.
