The katanas are sharp and the dragon hunt is about to begin! I’m Bartek, the Lead Producer of Shadow Warrior 3, and our team here at Flying Wild Hog is excited to give you a fresh look at our game ahead of its March 1st launch. Stay tuned as this post gets a few updates throughout the day, with more videos to dive a little deeper into the game. Oh, and one more thing – Shadow Warrior 3 will be a PlayStation Now title at launch .
The first thing we want to share is a detailed look at a new Shadow Warrior 3 mission – Dragon’s Nest! Our hero and his talkative companion are in search of the dragon that was accidentally left in our dimension at the end of the last game and, more precisely, of one of its eggs that can be transformed into a weapon to defeat it. The Dragon’s Nest is a beautiful and bright landscape that has seen better days since the dragon took up residence there and destroyed the few remaining bridges, buildings and temples. It’s a good mission to show off creativity in combat and movement alongside the new Gore weapons players earn by activating finishers that we think make Shadow Warrior 3 a thrill.
Shooter versus sword game
The Shadow Warrior series has always been about the concept that a melee weapon like our katana shouldn’t be considered a last resort when you run out of ammo, but rather a deadly option in the arsenal that makes players are likely to close in order to inflict devastating blows on the demons. The new game expands on this mechanic in a number of ways, including the ability to upgrade your katana to perform new attacks and creating a relationship between how you kill an enemy and the resources gained from each conquered monster. Hitting a demon with the katana will now grant ammo for your ranged weapons, while exploding them into bloody chunks will drop health to repair you and launch you into closer combat. It’s a viciously fun cycle and we think it will have players dancing between blades and balls with every encounter.
Check back in 30 minutes for faster, acrobatic and deadly Shadow Warrior 3 gameplay.
Executions and bloody weapons
The modern shooter scene has intensified the action with the addition of executions or “finishers” at the end of fierce battles. Shadow Warrior 3 takes this to another level by rewarding players with Gore Weapons, a feature where you literally separate enemies from their implanted tools of destruction and turn them against the horde for a limited time. Almost every enemy in the game can be dispatched with a finisher to pick up a gore weapon or perk that players will learn to execute at the perfect time for each situation.
Mandatory grapple
So we know that every space marine and demon slayer has a grappling hook these days and we’re not really innovating here. However, in Shadow Warrior 3, we believe it adds a new dimension of combat and traversal freedom by allowing players to pull off a few tricks to free themselves from a sticky situation or clear space in a battle arena. The grappling hook will allow you to flex and swing around arenas, close the gap between you and a demonic target for a chest kick, and latch onto questionably placed explosive barrels in the right place for a explosive result. Combined with a little fluid wall running and combat slides, players will become masters of dancing around an arena in a show of creative force.
The Flying Wild Hog team designed Shadow Warrior 3 as the next evolution in our series to give players more freedom amidst the absolute chaos they create in combat. The dance between wielding the katana and unleashing it with a shuriken launcher or railgun before executing an enemy to end the fight with a firework cannon is an absolute blast. Running up walls, swinging over chasms, and bringing down a 2,000-year-old steeple on unsuspecting demons will keep the action more intense than ever.
Thank you for taking the time to check out all the fun new things that await you with Shadow Warrior 3. If you want to check out the first two games, both are free when you pre-order Shadow Warrior 3 from PlayStation Store.
Now get ready to hunt this dragon!
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