Take Duke Nukem and add Chinese stereotypes, and what do you get? Shadow Warrior! While it's not as popular as Duke, Shadow Warrior is still a great game, filled with lots of weapons, enemies, and enough action to keep you occupied for hours.

Charmingly racist. Like your grandma. To be serious though, so far it plays like an even more absurd Duke Nukem. That is a good thing.

This game looks like it was made in 1997 or something.

10/10

Shadow Warrior Classic Redux completed, perfected and uninstalled, for the first time ever. My main goal with this game? Enjoy an old school shooter and have fun achievement hunting. Expansions, or perhaps just the gameplay, got repetitive though and the Twin Dragon boss fight was the lowest point. Then again, pretty much all of the boss fights were a formality, but that's how they usually made them back then. For comparison, the ending of Doom II was intense for me.

I had a blast with the main game. Great fun and just long enough. I liked the humor, the weapons, the setting, level design, but there's no particular need to play the expansions, unless you're still pumped up and want some more of the same. I very much appreciate the achievements (all of them single player), the modern menu, not having to mod anything, etc. Just install and play. All of id Software's back catalog should get the same treatment.

There are some bugs, like quick loading will crash the game repeatedly or the game will stop saving here and there. Exiting the game usually fixed that stuff for me. Other than that it's smooth sailing. If you need a demo, well, Shadow Warrior Classic is free on Steam. It's silly fun and I got a new favorite weapon, the Guardian Head. I'll be trying the demo for the new game soon, cos I'm hungry for more Wang.

Shadow Warrior is an absolute master piece.
The chinese theme is just awesome, the level design is one of the best and the weapons feel very good.
And in this version of Shadow Warrior you got smoothed textures, cheevos, and multiplayer will come after some time.
This game has a very unique style that you dont see anymore in new games, like, from temples to skycrapers, from trains, to mountains, hotels to vulcans.
You have a wide range of levels to play, plus 2 quality made expansions.
Who wants some wang?

Basically Duke Nukem 3d's younger brother, Shadow Warrior has all the things the Duke did right (fast-paced FPS action with plenty of secrets and easter eggs and explosions), but also adds some additional elements to the mix, including driveable vehicles (which sadly only see very limited use), a much more detailed and diverse environment for you to shoot and bomb your way through, and, at least from my impression, a higher difficulty level.

Very simply put, Shadow Warrior was made for the fans of Duke Nukem, so if old-school shooters float your boat and you'd always bet on Duke, then Shadow Warrior might just be the stuff you need when most 'modern' shooters are little more than one long sequence of quick-time events and have a "2DEEP4U" plot to drive them.

You no mess with Lo Wang

if you like call of duty, then you'll HATE this. 10/10

Slice people with katana's and throw shurikens at their faces. If thats not enough it also has guns.

Wham Bam Old School fun. Punishingly difficult at times, but very fun overall. Good arsenal, well put together package with all the expansions. Recommended

This game brings me back to the 90's.... I love it.

i forcefully made bunnies mate






you wont see that in games anymore

If you thought Lo Wang showed us all No Pain, No Gain in the DOS Classic on Steam! Then get ready to face total Ninja Pain in this HD Remake of Shadow Warrior! Now with 2 new Expansion Packs that's not even in the DOS Version!

"HA HA! YOU NO MESS WITH LO WANG!"
- Lo Wang

Shadow Warrior is another great, classic FPS from 3D Realms, the last before they went on to do Duke Nukem Forever.
Compared to Duke Nukem 3D the level design has improved even more, all of them seem very well thought out. They make also more use of destructable wall than before, some for revealing secrets or to progress. The style is pretty much the same: find the end of the level, sometimes hindered by locked doors for which keys have to be found. The weapon fit the style of the game, but are not as unique as in DN3D.
Beware that the game is very racist against asians and sexist. It spawned controvery at its release and is probably the reason why it didn't sell as well as DN3D did. Especially the comments of protagonist Lo Wang can be quiet bawdy, more than the "modern" Lo Wang in the Shadow Warrior reboot of 2013 and even Duke Nukem.
The Classic-Redux-Edition features improved music and graphics which look nice in Full-HD resolution but keeping the style of the original. If you prefer the low quality music and sound and heavily pixelated graphics of the original you can still play it as it is included.
Also included are the two expansion packs Twin Dragon and Wanton Destruction. WD was made by Sunstorm Interactiv which also made solid expansion packs for DN3D and this one follows them. They have some good level design, although it does not reach the quality of the base game, but are still worth to play. Twin Dragon on the other hand features large, mostly boring and uninspired levels that are more like the ones in modern FPS than the labyrinths of the classics. Especially annoying are the hidden mines in some levels that kill you instantly - not a good fit to a fast paced FPS.

I'd recommend the game for everybody who enjoys old school FPS like Doom, Quake or DN3D, although I think Shadow Warrior doesn't reach their quality, but comes very close. The Classic Redux is probably the best version to enjoy the game today.

Woah...Must be American made.

Ancient-a Chinese Secret!

One of the great retro FPSes, Shadow Warrior is somewhat similar in gameplay to Duke Nukem 3D. The game is definitely quite difficult, but the introduction of quicksaving and quickloading eases off the difficulty for newer players. Since much of the game's humor comes from he hilariously stereotypical protagonist Liu Wang, some players may find it racist, but it's all just in good fun. The game looks good for its time, and the sound assets are great.
Gameplay wise, the game plays great. The player can fight enemies with his fists, a katana, dual-weilding uzis, a rocket launcher with optional heat seeking missiles and even a nuke, a heart that creates a clone of Liu Wang, and more. The stage design is usually a major strength in old FPSes, and Shadow Warrior is no exception. The huge, expansive stages are fun to explore and packed with secrets. Enemy variation is not the best, but there's definitely enough to keep the player entertained.
The port remains faithful to the original, but one of the new editions is a multiplayer mode. It works well, but I rarely use it. One of the multiplayer's greatest strengths is the ability to design stages and share them with full Steam Workshop Support.
It may not be as well known as Duke Nukem 3D or Doom, but it's definitely just as good. From veterans to new players alike, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux is a classic that's definitely still worth the price today.

A really fun game to play and have fun with the harder difficultys even if you're a new player, I don't have much time played on the game but it is great with your main character of "Lou Wang" Pronounced "Low Wang" especially when you have your katana and go sling slash bing bam you know

Just as insane and cliche-driven as Duke Nukem, but with a more exotic setting and leading character, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux is a great shooter that's been perfectly redone for newer computers with tons of beautiful levels and funny one-liners that will keep you hooked.

Who wants some wang?

Perfect.