Flying Wild Hog has some experience in crafting such a title, since their first game, Hard Reset, upheld those old design beliefs – it was a run and gun shooter covered in striking visuals – and this is carried into Shadow Warrior.
This new take on Shadow Warrior isn’t developed by the same crew instead, the team at Flying Wild Hog decided they wanted to have a go at bringing back a well-known first-person shooter and adapting it to their vision. Shadow Warrior is a reboot of a game with the same name that was released back in 1997 by 3D Realms, the team that created the excellent Duke Nukem 3D. If you enjoyed any of those games, then Shadow Warrior will be worth checking out, as it invokes so much of that history in its design. A period where No One Lives Forever, Blood II, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, Star Wars: Jedi Knight, and Kingpin: Life of Crime were great showcases for the genre. Shadow Warrior feels like it has come from a time where developers were having fun making games and coming up with interesting mechanics, refreshing settings and crafting diversity to make sure their games stood out from the crowd. It’s not copying from anyone else it hasn’t got crappy, forced multiplayer and it certainly doesn’t come across like a game that was crafted in an era where everyone is gung-ho for military themed shooters. Shadow Warrior falls along the same lines. It wasn’t long ago that Rise of the Triad released, and while not perfected, the game was a rediscovery for the past – its challenging gameplay and complex level design were taken from the 90s first-person shooter library. I think I am in love with this resurgence for reboots of old-school first-person shooters.
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