In the first chapter if you run as far as you can along the road Wang came driving along you'll eventually get to it's end where your path is blocked by a picture of the continuing road. The "Planete Rouge" comic in Lo Wang's collection is clearly based on Tintin, I don't remember the particular book. There are also syphilis posters from Hard Reset in the arcade. The arcade in the second level has the same logo as the Serious Sam games. There are also "Titsubishi" cars just like in the original game. There are also plenty of fortune cookie lines that are nods to the original SW, as well as Star Wars, Karate Kid, Zero Wing and other things. The "Shinobi" guy is actually an enemy that was removed or remade before the game was released, but remained in mutilated form. Secrete area called the Dark Woods done in retro/pixelated art.Those are all assets from the original Shadow Warrior. Pixelated corpse that looks like a character from Shinobi or something. Originally posted by Ryukan:I keep coming across nods to retro, pixelated games. To do something "before it was cool" is one of the common memes out there. Hoji becomes offended and says "I liked it before it was cool". My favourite is when Wang realises the potential in the Kage sword and shows-off by saying that having the sword and being obsessed by it is "hotness". There are many movie references such as Taxi Driver when, at home, Wang starts shaving himself bald in front of the mirror. There are a lot of pixelated areas if we look for secrets that are also references to the original game's Build engine. There are dozens of Shadow Warrior arcades found throughout the game. Beside Hard Reset there are other product placements in the game such as the AlienWare logo on various containers on the dock level. Some are not really comics but the posters of the dev team's previous FPS called Hard Reset. Once we reach Lo Wang's house and go into the cave-like basement there are several comic books along the walkway. This is a reference to Rovio's critically acclaimed Angry Birds franchise. On the first dock level (I believe Chapter 6) once we are inside there are several Angry Ninjas posters put up on the walls. In one of the early chapters I jumped down to a sewer-like place where I had to turn but on the wall, behind the bars I saw a hanged Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Even the small text above the scanner says "Hello Dave". Reference to Kubrick's Odyssey: In the lab where you need to find the prof's head to proceed notice the retina scanner that looks like the A.I.
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