Shadow Warrior 2 - PC Game Review

I've recently started playing Shadow Warrior 2. It is a nice FPS with shooting and melee elements, as well as many ways to customize your skills and weapons.

On some points, it feels like they tried too hard and some UI elements are not explained at all.

It also gets repetitive quite fast (which was a problem with Shadow Warrior (2013) too). I just took two of the first side missions, and they take place in almost the same location.

Some things I love:

  • The next objective has a nice dot trail on the map. No more walking around trying to find a key!
  • Most useful things, such as loot boxes are marked on the map, too.


Overall, it is nice, specially considering I got it at a nice discount. But just like the first one, I am not too sure I will bother to finish it.

Update: currently 20 hours in and did most of the side missions on the free DLC. They are not great, but they are fun enough and worth it for the extra action points and occasional skills.

Update 2: finished the game at 27 hours, including all the DLC. Pretty fun, and there is an option to restart with all your weapons and unlocks, which I really like.

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