5 Reasons You Should Drop What You're Doing & Play Shadows Of The Damned

Johnson Carrying on in my run of articles on games you can get for cheap and should really probably play, we come to number three of five and a little bought, and even littler played. The first two on the list €“ Spec Ops: The Line and Demon's Souls €“ were classics in their own right, and if they weren't perfect they did things better than any game had done before them. They had something new to offer, something original that took that respective title a little closer to perfection than the sum of its other parts would have done without it. Unlike those games, what Shadows did had been done before €“ and oftentimes much better €“ and it doesn't really do anything new or clever and it most definitely doesn't push any boundaries. It's not a great game by any stretch, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve inclusion here. I'm advising you to play it even though it's shaky in places and downright broken in others, and it all boils down to it being fun. Shadwos is a dirty little shooter that not only doesn't take itself seriously in any way, but which also wears the fact that it's been rated 18 by the BBFC on its chest as a badge of honour that it wants to push to the very limits of decency. It's your drunken friend who always has that extra drink and ends up hurling in the cab; it's the kid in class who had so many backlogged detentions that he stapled all of the naughty-slips to the inside of his coat and flashed them with pride to whoever wanted to see; it's the naughty puppy that knows exactly where it's supposed to go to the bathroom but insists on ruining the new shag rug in the sitting room. And if that reason alone isn't enough, here are five more...
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