Thank you for your kind words about my music! I really do appreciate them.

1:01 this animation is where every dollar from Patreon went

Man being a kid having a crush on sailor moon and finding that secret here blew my mind as a kid.

Fun fact: The four posters that appear in this game are taken from promos found in 90s anime magazines. The promos are for Slayers Special, Black Jack OVA Vol. 6, Sorcerer Hunters and Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko. The Slayers and Black Jack posters specifically were pulled from the June 1996 issue of Newtype Magazine (The one featuring "VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire" on the cover).

"Who want some Wang?" "You no mess with Lo Wang" "Do you want to wash Wang?...or watch Wang wash Wang?" "ho ho ancient chinese secret"

I remember playing this in the basement of my house, door shut and headphones on because I was afraid my parents would find out. Smh

good memories of the waterfall nude scene

the big 3 build engine games have incredibly fluid movement and outstanding level design which is why they hold up so well compared to older modern shooters

If you're exploding randomly it's landmines, redux fucked up and now they spawn below the floor so you can't see em

Playing as a Kid?! I played this as an adult! Frack Im old... Edit: Blood, Shadow Warrior and Duke 3D: The holy trinity of shooters! All time classics!👍

"Seppuku station". Ah...so beautiful.

Unless I’m bad at math this year isn’t Shadow Warriors 25th Anniversary. 1997 plus 25 is 2022.

Right after "Activision/COD creatively bankrupt..." I got an ad for Rambo in Warzone. Lol.

Using the smoke bomb makes you frikkin invincible for almost a minute. It's fun to use with fists.

Okay. Out of all the build engine games, I know the least about this one, and I’ve never heard Lo Wang say most of his one-liners, but the second I heard “HOW’S THAT FOR KUNG-FU FIGHTING, YOU CHICKENSHIT?!” I nearly cracked up laughing. This is definitely one of the games I feel so bad for not having played this yet. I’ll be picking this up ASAP.

Nice review Gman. =) Shadow Warrior classic is a great game. We got you covered with the annoying enemies list, as the ones you mentioned are on our Top Annoying Enemies list.

I believe that Shadow Warrior Redux on Steam has the problem with landmine voxel graphics being rendered below the floor, which would explain Gman's random deaths here.

You should try Drakan: Order of the Flame for a review. Imagine Lara Croft except with magical powers, fantasy weaponry, and flying a dragon that feels similar to flying an airplane.

I remember when I first played SW in the 90s. Picked up the Uzi. Found another one and thought "well too bad I have it already" and the game just made it one Uzi for each hand. So cool and unexpected, best moment.

I believe that, when he finally decided to retire at an advanced age, Lo Wang changed his name to Roshi

Civvie 11: “Most of the one liners don’t bother me, but that one still gets me.”

The voice actor for Wang has more personality than most triple aaa characters of today, which is a damn shame

I love how many aussies are gaining traction on KZfaq. Fucking love it Gman 👌

Shadow Warrior was such a step up from Duke Nukem 3D. It pushed the build engine to its limits. I remember opening up some maps in the editor back in the day and was just astonished on how complex they were compared to the Duke3D maps.

The level design in some of these games like this one is just masterful and super creative. Areas flooded, or switches raise walkways that kind of connect and make whole the entire level by connecting previous areas all together. The levels are just so well designed I feel like games today honestly went backwards in some ways. The volcano erupting, or a magic carpet that flies around. They were so creative.

From sponsoring the Bully Hunters to sponsoring GMan. Looks like they learned their lesson after all.

Probably one of the most underrated FPS's of the 90's. It came out at a time when Quake was out for over a year and Quake 2 was on the horizon so the idea of a 2d/3d shooter just wasn't as enticing and seen as wrongly inferior. But damn has it aged like fine wine. Unlike Quake 2, the amount of atmosphere, ambience, humor and gorgeous pixelated art really made it stand the test of time where replaying the singleplayer is always fun.

LOL! The reason why the grenade launcher has a large AOE is because you're supposed to fire at corners in to a crowded area, which is why the grenades bounce off walls, detonate on impact and only affect those within it's FOV. You use the rocket launcher for direct sight and grenades for bouncing off walls and clearing the next room.

You know I really want a Gman and Civvie 11 crossover video.

10:31 The grenade explosion hitbox must linger a bit. You walked right into it just a microsecond before it finished. Also the grenade launcher was my go to weapon. Just gotta keep your distance and shoot around corners by shooting the walls. So OP.

In 1997 me and my 2 brothers hated Shadow Warrior soundtrack, then I had my copy of Destruction Derby 2 for PC lying in the shelve as the game is too hard for our tastes but we loved the soundtrack so the best ideia came, put DD2 disk on the CD drive to play Shadow Warrior with it's soundtrack. I never regret this, it's like DD2 music was made with Shadow Warrior in mind, the perfect couple.

You should do a Blade of Agony full review now that its finished and Episode 3 has been released.

The production value of your videos sure has gone up and it shows.

10:32 What killed you there was one of those flaming rocks that flies off the top of the volcano. They explode on contact with the player. It probably hit you from behind, that's why you didn't even see it.

I hope you'll make a retro review of Redline someday. That game was ahead of its time

I just love your style - the writing, the voice, the puns and visual jokes, it all blends together so perfectly. Always informative and full of dry humor. 👍

Gas grenades underrated af. Super useful for clearing out room or enemies

"One of the Build Engines holy trinity" Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison would like to make that a Quarternity. Also for anyone who's wandering:Timesplitters and Free Radical are returning.

I remember playing one on one death match on dialup modem and literally laughing until I almost passed out. So much fun.

Probably won’t see this But GMan you have help me through a difficult time in my life and your videos just brought back good memories and I can’t thank you enough

I got to play Shadow Warrior for the first time this year thanks to Devolver putting it on mobile for Android. It's so good! Thank you for doing a retrospective! Also my favorite was the Grenade Launcer because you can bounce grenades off walls into other rooms and kill enemies without taking any splash damage.....learned that one from watching Civvie lol

I picked this game up a few years ago and I was impressed by how well it aged despite not even being born when it came out.

When you think Gman finds this game hard, and you know there is probably someone somewhere who finished it using only the katana...

I remember playing the originals when I was at university. Doom still has an active mod scene.

This is now the third Shadow warrior review from gman . Im already hyped for the 4th vid !!!

1:01 ah yes i too talk by moving my teeth up and down

@10:38 In the volcano section, there's random chunks of flaming rock that can fall from the sky and blow up.

I think you got killed by one of those flying chunks of lava. They show up in E1M3 and some other levels where there's lava. Gotta say though, one great thing about Shadow Warrior was making it so your main workhorse weapon were the rapid firing uzis as opposed to shotguns like most games of the era.

Good point about the sticky bomb! I bet simply decreasing the fuse time would make it a fun and usable part of the Shadow Warrior arsenal.

I’ve literally only just bought this game after shamefully missing out on it. This video came at the perfect time

This game give you so much testosterone, by the end. You'll look like 80s Arnold Schwarzenegger

Oh come on, the nade launcher is amazing here. In fact, it is one of the best ones I've ever seen in an fps game.

That opening line is one of my favourite in all shooters. That and DOOM 2016's opening line

I remember getting this when it came out, totally blew me away, still have the big box version.

One of my favorite Build Engine titles. Concerning an enjoyable game with destructible walls, "Red Faction" was awesome in that regard.

Funnily enough, the gas bomb is probably one of my most used gadgets. It's especially great for swarms of hornets because of how fucking frustrating they are to hit.

When I play FPS games I usually try and only save when I start a new level, but this game broke me. Definitely one of the hardest ever made.

10:32 Flaming rock from the volcano killed you

My only 2 complaints about classic SW are: levels sometimes are structured like a maze and I have no idea what to do next and sometimes puzzles are taking away a bit too much time on my side. Otherwise I freaking love SW series.

i played this everyday after school this takes me back wow

Awesome review. Shadow Warrior is by far my favorite Build Engine game, primarily because there were so many unique settings, making me look forward to each new level, wondering what it was going to look like and feel like. I particularly enjoyed the many different outdoor areas, some of which gave me a mild case of vertigo. I also loved the color palettes throughout. It was truly a beautiful game. And yes, it was a difficult game, but I managed to finish it, which is saying something, because usually if a game is too difficult, I just give up on it after a while. But the unpredictable level design kept me pushing onward, eager to see what was around the next corner. Extremely fond memories. I really need to give it another go.

I am loving the improvements to the channel, making less reviews but more quality ones is really nice, I love the channel but some older videos aren't (IMO) as quality but damn dude you make great vids

The railgun firing effect is the same sound effect as used in vehicle shooting rockets in the PC game, Total Annihilation (TA). Also, the humming sound is from the TA home screen.

Ahh, better than acupuncture.

Should play it again. The one liners always cracked me up. Especially how he addresses the ladies.

"You no mess with the Lo Wang"

OG Shadow Warrior is one of the greatest of all time! I just finished a play through recently and, yeah, its brutally difficult, but so fun.

Old is always gold. Love all old games

Congrats on the steelseries sponsor! Legendary game, it's a shame that there isn't a super good/modernized source port yet. I think BuildGDX has a good fork and eduke32 comes with VoidSW in the new builds. I think I might try WangGDX again though.

Ironically for G-man who didn't use the ninja tools all that much, the easiest way to deal with the hornets is to drop the smoke bombs.

as a 40+ year old with wonderful memories on those old school shooters i have to say: i fucking love your channel man! keep up the great work.

Awesome, going to play this game for the first time. All these old fps games are starting to look more and more appealing to me.

One thing most people seem to miss with the shotgun is that you can actually cancel the 4 shot burst fire short by either clicking fire again or changing fire modes. It gives you just an extra level of control on your shotgun, and I love it. Also the invisibility potion works way better than most other FPS's invisibility because the enemies can't attack you at all until it's over, and your fists do more damage while it's active. You can use this to cheese the final boss.

Hey if you're not playing the dos version, landmines sometimes are hidden underground. Like their physical sprites are hidden underground - they are sprinkled throughout and meant to be visible/shootable

I don’t mean to put such a burden by saying this but you have a unique sense of humor and not only are your reviews helpful, but watching your videos are a sense of therapy for me in a way as I try to avoid these thoughts of suicide or thinking there’s nothing to look forward to in life. This is one of those things I can wake up and distract myself with sometimes. Keep it up sir

6:22 that's a fun way of saying 'Rocket Launcher' you got there.

Played this a couple of years ago. Never heard of it back of the day. Great game. Lots of fun. The build engine does something for shooter game that's quite unique.

Nice work gman, I'm a huge (french) fan of your work. We need a 《most annoying enemies in fps games》 video. Im sure you want to do it anyway (mentioned it in several videos) I'll patreon support as soon as possible

I find Blood the most difficult of Built Engine games, it is down to how bloody quick hitscanners are in that game. Shadow Warrior has many traps and level gimmicks that made it difficult but enemies in general aren't as evil as in Blood. Ion Fury is very much like Shadow Warrior, and that is why I like it so much.

Played it a couple months ago because of your videos! Thank you for making me aware of such a fun game to play!

Much preferred games from this era. Glad to be old enough to experience them first hand

The Classic Complete version is free on GOG. They also gave away Shadow Warrior 2 about a year ago.

ehi gman what about a look back to the first reboot of Shadow Warrior of 2013? i would love to hear you get more in detail into it , btw great video as always

Couldnt even finish the first level when I first played this. 8 or 9 year old me didnt knew that you had to aim with the mouse. But I beat the first level after awhile with the arrow keys, ctrl and space

Cool review! My cousin and I spent dozens if not hundreds of hours making levels in the build engine for DN3D, throughout several years. Then we were very excited when I got SW, mostly because there were new effects and advances in the Build engine. But we ended up under the impression that the game showcased some effects that weren't possible to replicate in the Build software. But we were kids, internet wasn't what it is today, and we didn't even read English at the time. So I mean, who knows.

"...And I challenge anyone to find a fault in a weapon that lets you fire small nuclear missiles" Some cases you get yourself blown away if you're not careful unless there's a conveniently placed wall to go behind. I was about to bring up Turok & Bloons Tower Defense since they also had nukes.

3:04 haha looks like the mirror tricked ya ;)

Played thru shadow warrior recently for the first time and really enjoyed it! It held my attention well and had me hungry for more and I also played thru all the additional episodes and expansions. Highly recommended

10:30 It was the sheer badass-ness of the game that killed you. You'd be surprised how often that happens.

Holy cow this is the first game I ever played as a kid and I had forgotten it's name. Recently I saw Shadow warrior 3 in some upcoming game videos and then started watching gameplay videos since it looked so good. And then this came up in my feed. God bless the youtube algorithm. This brings back so many memories, thank you !

One of the best FPS games of my youth. Right up with Dukem Nukem 3d, Heretic and Hexxen.

I remember all the LAN games back in the 90’s, using the nuke on everyone. Loved that weapon!

I played this on my school macbook during quarantine and was also my first game in the classic Build engine trilogy I still think this game has a lot more character and meat than what the 2 reboot games had and I still liked the reboot games a lot so I'm excited to see if they can combine both for Shadow Warrior 3. (Kinda ironic that the lesser of the 3 games is still going on. We seriously need a Blood reboot or something)

Shang Hai'ed Heist. Tokyo Showdown. Brooklyn Botanical Gardens of Badassery. (unofficial name ideas for future map packs).

Always a good day when we get an honoring of one of the finest FPS of the 90's. And Lo Wang is larger than life, what a Chang!

Your first video on Shadow Warrior back in the days had me subscribe to your chanel. And i dont nind you going back to the build engine games every once in a while

Cool, one of my first multiplayer games!! Solo was fun with SWCHAN lol

"I'm not sure any game engine has made it so cathartic to shoot a hole in the wall with a rocket launcher." I'd argue the Frostbite engine does some pretty satisfying things in the BF series. Like say, when you make the whole 3rd floor corner of a house vanish into an explosion of rubble to get rid of that cheeky sniper who's been hugging that window for 5 minutes. Or when you just run a building through with your out of ammo tank to teach those players that no, they totally aren't safe in that brick house. BF games have their issues, but I feel the visual spectacle of their dynamic destruction is a high point. But yes, there is something to be said about destroying the environment to get secrets and stuff.

Played this for the first time in lockdown last year, absolutely one of my favourite games ever

Good ol Shadow warrior, the beat of the best!!!