The impolite, crude Shadow Warrior 2 is free to seize on GOG for the following two days. Flying Wild Hog’s shooter is an enormous messy slab of old-school FPS’ing infused with painful jokes (which steadily made me giggle), some Borderlands-ish stat juggling, procedural encounter technology and many monsters and cyborgs to mulch.
Adam Smith gushed profusely in his review, calling it “anarchic, excessive, ridiculous, occasionally spectacular and almost entirely wonderful”. After profitable over Firewatch and Superhot in a vote today, GOG are giving it away for 48 hours, celebrating the shop’s 10th anniversary . Get it here and inform your folks – it’s co-op too.
While different shooters that attempted to marry FPS and RPG mechanics typically have enemies feeling like baggage of numbers that unravel when out of HP, I at all times thought Shadow Warrior 2 did higher. Visible locational harm makes it really feel such as you’re hurting monsters even if you happen to’re not killing them outright, plus a gradual stream of ‘popcorn’ enemies that die shortly helps sustain the tempo. While there’s not far more to the game than ‘Go here, shoot this’, the taking pictures and looting was messy and satisfying sufficient to take me properly into New Game Plus territory.
Extended play close to launch did reveal some cracks in Shadow Warrior 2’s armour, together with some shortfalls in steadiness and a dearth of aspect missions. Flying Wild Hog supported the game properly, although, releasing some very helpful patches and a trio of free DLC packs full of latest weapons and over thirty new side-missions. Even if you happen to performed by way of the game when it was new, the brand new missions and inflow of latest co-op companions are excuse to return.
Shadow Warrior 2 is free for the following 48 hours, the giveaway ending on 3pm BST, October sixth. Snap it up here. While you’re there, take a look at our list of Good Games For Better People on GOG for one thing a bit of extra light to come back down with after a enjoyable day of gutting cyborg demons from hell.
