Shadow Warrior 2

Wang's stupid wisecracks kept me smiling from start to finish, and the variety of melee and ranged combat and the loot that dropped from it was satisfying enough that I came back with friends for more. It's great fun in solo or in co-op, and its small degree of randomization is enough to keep the action fresh for at least a few runs.

Improvements to combat and a raft of new visual gags don’t make up for Shadow Warrior 2’s flaccid story and aimless levels.

Fans of the 2013 reboot or the 1997 original will already be comfortable with the basics. You play Lo Wang, a smart-mouthed ninja assassin in a world where pseudo-Oriental fantasy meets Chinese triad dramas meets Western sci-fi. The plot kicks off when the daughter of a crime boss, undercover in a sinister corporation’s lab, becomes possessed. A powerful magician extracts her soul from her body and places it in Wang’s, and the two join forces on a range of missions in the hope of stopping the corporation’s plans and restoring the girl to her normal state.