There’s this thing some people have called a penis, and Shadow Warrior 2 wants to make sure you know it. Without pause, Shadow Warrior 2 takes every opportunity to elevate dick jokes and other aimless, crass humor above its acrobatic first-person shooting, wildly diverse weapons, hilarious precision gore system, RPG-lite loot hooks, procedurally generated levels, and open-ended four-player co-op campaign.
It’s a shame, because systemically, Shadow Warrior 2 is one of the most joyful and expressive FPS games of the year. But thematically, I want to kick it in the teeth.
In a rare moment of silence from Wang, the chatty protagonist, I swing a chainsaw skyward and grind a cyber ninja into two long vertical pieces. As the halves fly up, I swing horizontally, quartering the guy. For fun,…