SW3 plays more like a raunchy version of the latest Doom iteration complete with bloody chunks of Japanese demons and all the sideways humor a guy named Wang can throw at you. Platforms: PC (reviewed), Xbox, PlayStationįirst up if this is your first time with Shadow Warrior 3 it plays differently from the sequel. For anyone who already owns the base copy of Shadow Warrior 3 this will be a free upgrade which is a really nice thing to do in this economy, don’t you think? Now I already reviewed Shadow Warrior 3 when it came out last year and I enjoyed it, and the full review can be found here but for this I will just go over the new things that are in the Definitive Edition, hold on to your butts. As well as a few new arenas and new weapon skins and for those on console this will also be the ‘Next-Gen’ update. A "Duke 3D 2" made on Build with new, high res textures and sprites just like IF? Count me in, that would be a huge jump in quality and complexity.Wang is back baybee!! Granted, he literally was just here last year but he has returned in Shadow Warrior 3: Definitive Edition, which is basically an update for the game which includes a new Survival Mode and a Horde Mode which unlocks after players complete the campaign. I wouldn't be interested in a "Blood 2" running on the Build engine because even after looking at IF I don't think it would be a meaningful upgrade anymore. The difference can be quite jarring at times, for example if you take something like Hotel Hell and imagine how it would look like and play in Blood (you don't really have to since Overlooked Hotel is pretty much the same concept) well, the improvement would be pretty significant. ![]() Plus when it comes to Duke aging badly I think it's a factor that his game was the first out of the "holy trinity" and as a result it's just less detailed and less crazy than the titles that followed him. The games are full of these little differences and they add up and result in 3 very different titles. Caleb is more like a character from a John Woo movie so he's squishier than Duke but he can also move more freely. For example when it comes to movement I always thought that Duke feels more grounded and static because he's a one man army, he moves like Arnie in Commando. I wouldn't say that: yeah, they are similar games because they share the same engine and the general design philosophy of being based on a certain theme but because those themes are very different you get different games. The big 3 are, in a way, so identical that you can't say one has aged well and the other one didn't. So yep, Blood is the better game though not by far while Duke 3D has some aspects that make it less enjoyable to me these days. Blood also has a more polished theme, literally everything you'd want from a horror themed Build shooter is in there just like how IF maxes out cyberpunk. ![]() Those are the 3 things that drag the Duke down for me and compared to that Blood's bouncy movement and floaty jumping is still just as satisfying as it was 20+ years ago, Well Done can still kick my ass sometimes, Extra Crispy is something I've yet to attempt apart from the first episode and I don't think the game has one bad episode in it. The thing is that Duke's movement feels too static these days, the challenge is not there anymore and apart from the last few maps Lunar Apocalypse is just terrible. well, whatever.Ĭan we admit that Duke 3D didn't age super well? Don't get me wrong, I love me some Duke just as much as the next guy, I played that game religously when I was a kid, in fact I replayed the original first 3 episodes just a few weeks ago (and yeah, I want to get back to the Birth after I get bored of IF) and you know what? I enjoyed Blood better the month before that. ![]() Half of the voters said Blood is a better game than Duke.
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