SHADOW WARRIORS PLAYSTATION 4 PS4

Shadow Warrior is a reboot of the 1997 first-person shooter Shadow Warrior. The player controls ninja mercenary Lo Wang who is hired by Zilla Enterprise to purchase the Nobitsura Kage katana for $2 million. When the case goes wrong, Wang is captured. After he manages to escape, he bonds with the spirit Hoji who is also interested in the katana. The game is then divided into different chapters where Wang pursues the katana. The game uses an Asian setting in a modern environment.

Wang's primary weapon is his katana used for hand-to-hand combat. It quickly slices controlled by mouse movement and there are different types of (charged) strikes and skills to provide variation. The other weapons offer ranged attacks: a pistol, a machine gun, a shotgun, a crossbow, a rocket launcher, the excalibat from Rise of the Triad, etc. When using the katana, shuriken can be thrown quickly. Upgrades are provided in three categories (weapons, skills and powers), each with its own currency (money, karma and KI crystals respectively) and with different levels. Most skills are executed through key combinations combined with the mouse. They offer new ways to attack, but can also be used to heal Wang. Levels are generally linear, but there are a few alternate routes and plenty of secrets. Boss battles often take place in large arenas.

Next to the main campaign mode with different difficulty levels, two additional modes become available after completing the game. In Ex mode, the game is replayed from the beginning, but with all the improvements of the previous part. In Heroic Difficulty, there are no autosaves or checkpoints; saving is only done between missions. A later update added a fourth mode called Survival where Wang battles waves of enemies across three maps.