Just bad

User Rating: 4 | Shadow Warrior PC
First off i noticed the poor graphics. The colors look dull,chalky and over saturated while i was expecting them to look glossy and sharp. They are also drowning in video "bloom" effect which makes the lights bleed out into their surroundings, this makes the graphics look look foggy and even more dull. Also the textures set to ultra just look mediocre at best.

There is also some extremely shoddy optimization despite very high framerates, i've seen the framerate go as high as 300 in some areas but somehow manages feeling uneven and odd. While playing a game like this with ninja and samurai swords you want the smoothest experience possible but its just not. The performance never feels completely smooth or even regardless of what you do to tweak the settings. I think the problem is that there are some issues with the engines v-sync,refresh rate or triple buffering system. I just can not get it to feel fluid no matter what. This is almost never an issue with a game with fps over 60, I just ended up disabling vsync and dealing with the screen-tearing which was extremely annoying.

Aside from the graphics the game is just plain boring, the sword slaying was fun for a short while but i was just dying to get my hands on some weapons. When i finally did get the SMG i was extremely dissapointed with the non-existent weapon mechanics, there was no nearly no recoil, the gunshot sounds are practically inaudible, and there is almost no muzzle flash at all. It was like shooting the assault rifle from aliens colonial marines, yawnn. You can't even hear the smg's firing sounds when enemies are all around, you just see the tip of it blinking like a cheap joke.

You would think a shallow game like this which has nothing going for it but the weapons that they would actually do them right.. but they did not

Also the enemies get boring after 30 seconds, they just pour into the map constantly and you kill them in one sword slash, the enemies in this game are almost an 100% copy from the enemies in afterfall insanity except those ones are actually textured

The game developers also do not attempt anything original at all (besides maybe some humping bunnies). But it just seems like they placed money pickups all around the level just for the sake of making the game seem up to par with other modern games. Each weapon has 3 or 4 simple upgrades which change nothing about the weapon at all, for the pistol there is "increase accuracy by 50%" which i swear does nothing at all. The pistol already has 100% perfect accuracy from the start so its just like.. why. Other than that it's just typical "increase damage by 25%" which i am not sure even works. It just seems like it was tacked on a week before launch.

This should be one of those free games you play for free on a flash player game website, certainly not worth $30. Heck even if it was $5 i would not recommend it. It's just generic boring and just ends up leaving you feeling unsatisfied