Lo Wang Returns - Shadow Warrior reboot

[ManaByte]

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/20/reinventing-shadow-warrior-for-the-modern-era/

For fans of the original, Lo Wang isn't Lo Wang without his brash attitude and sense of humor. Fans can even be found quoting some of the more memorable lines by the lead character in the comments of the developer's official Facebook page. Lo Wang's one-liners stood out to these players, who will justifiably be hesitant at the notion of the character's reinvention.

"What we've tried to do here is create a lot of that humor and still have those one-liners... but put together a character that starts off rather immature, and as [Bartkowicz] puts it, is a little bit of a douchebag at the start, but you kind of see him transform over time," Lowrie said. "But one thing we did take out was a lot of the cheap jokes that had a lot of racial stereotyping and kind of sexist jokes," replacing them with "a little smarter comedy than the cheap ones that were in there."

Lowrie agreed that there were "a couple things that in the [original game's] writing that were definitely offensive, like the use of names that we certainly wouldn't use now." He assured that Shadow Warrior will only see "a change in tone and a change in writing style that really shines through," though "if someone was really looking for those particular elements... then yeah I'm sure they'll be a little disappointed."

"If you bought any game for those specific reasons, then you probably were enjoying them for the wrong reasons anyway," Lowrie added. People can really mature in 16 years. It seems Lo Wang won't be an exception to that when the game arrives later this year on PC and in 2014 across unspecified next-gen consoles.

[Joe Molotov]

Lo Wang's one-liners stood out to these players, who will justifiably be hesitant at the notion of the character's reinvention.

Yes, if the Shadow Warrior remake is handled with the utmost care, the backlash from Shadow Warrior fans could be immense.

[magus]

shadow wha?

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they should do a reboot of this instead

[close]

[Positive Touch]

"well guys, we just shipped our product and now we need to think about where we want to take our company next. we need something that'll really get peoples attention and give us a huge commercial success."

"hey here's an idea: remember that one mechanically unremarkable and downright boring fps with all the racist jokes that absolutely no one bought or played?"

"no"

"well lets make a sequel to it anyway"

[Great Rumbler]

Hard Reset was a neat game, so I guess I'm a little interest just based on the developer. It being a reboot of Shadow Warrior does nothing for me, though.

[originalz]

The original game had like 5 good levels, the majority of them were generic mountain or factory stages, what a waste.