Shadowrun

List Price: $49.95 Discount Price: $3.95

Features:

• Ancient magic co-exists with deadly high-tech weaponry - Purchase advanced technology and magic each round in an extraordinary arms race
• Balance your teams by using the talents of humans, elves, dwarves and trolls in your battles for supremacy among soaring corporate towers
• Train offline with the robust A.I. or play coop through online mini-games with your friends, as you master magic and technology
• Take on friends or work with them via System Link, Splitscreen, LAN, or Xbox Live -- even if you're playing on a Windows PC

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Shadow run = Shadow nap [Posted on 2007-08-11]
This is one of those games that fell far short of its potential. To start with its combination of magic/weapons is poorly implemented. Each of which has beed done far better in previous games....can anyone say Star Wars with force powers. This game feels clumsy. Damage modeling is horrible, I'm sure they prefer the longevity of players is preferred by some, but as for myself, I can't stand to pump round after round into a player and do little damage. Some of the effects are cool, like waking thru walls, but shouldnt be enuff to levitate this game from the bargin bin.

Is this shadowrun? [Posted on 2007-10-20]
At first glance, I was very excited to finally see a FPS made after an RPG that really deserves one. This game was very slow paced as a pen and paper Role Playing Game. For example, if you fired you're minigun at a crowd of corporate thugs; you then had to roll 100 dice just to see if it did anything. It totally took the vindication out of "G.E. Vindicator Minigun". So I got this game, loaded it up and got ready to hook up with my trusty fixer, make some contacts, and geek some corporate thugs to make some nuyen and karma! To my horror, it wasn't "Shadowrun" at all.

The good: The artwork rocks; maps, characters, gear, weapons and spells all represent their RPG counterparts pretty well and look and behave almost exactly as I once imagined I like the minigun's behavior, even though it lacks a belt feed system. The game play and net code are also very refined and solid, with everything reacting how you would expect.

The bad; Most of the RPG's charm and diversity is missing. There are very few maps, weapons, cyber enhancements, races, and gear to choose from and this makes the game get old real quick. My favorite characters, the deckers and riggers are absent, and that means no computers or security systems to hack and vehicles and drones to drive. No paranormal animals either, not a single cockatrice, or hellhound, and you can forget dueling a dragon or feathered serpent...

Game design wise, I could write a thesis on how this game went wrong. Seriously! The concept behind this game is totally uninspired. It would have worked better as a MMRPG like World of Warcraft or a single player FPS like Metal of Honor. Instead, it has a very generic feel; like a quick and dirty Xbox adaptation of Halo, with some gimmicks thrown in for color.

The programming its self is lacking too; The AI is erratic and I've seen them teleport through doorways, since they would otherwise run into walls and get stuck in corners, which they happen to do a lot too. The controls are limited to one input device, and only 2 gamepad setups and you can't bind your own buttons and axis's.

Technically, it's been proven that this game's DX9 graphics engine works just fine on XP, so what's up with Vista being only operation system that it was released for? this is scandalous! My Saitek P990 game pad is also incompatible, and when it's plugged in; I can't play with the mouse and keyboard. It's like they programmed the game so I have to use Microsoft's Xbox controller or as an inconvenience; reach down and around the back of my case and unplug the controller so I can use mouse and keyboard. The only online choice is the Microsoft's Live service, which is too expensive for me. They could have at least given a choice to use the free Game Zone, for us less fortunate people.

The ugly: Fasa went out of business years ago, so any games made after their products aren't going to represent any of their vision or standards. This game was made simply to make Microsoft a quick buck, plus promote their pay services, Halo game platform Xbox peripherals and new OS. I'm sure the Owners of the Shadowrun license, whoever they are now, will also collect some royalties too. This product is a key example of why and how NOT to make a Shadowrun FPS game.

Shadow Run - First person shooter [Posted on 2008-02-08]
I used to play the Shadow Run role playing game and was excited to see it available as an online game system. I was hoping that this was an MMOG like WOW or Everquest. What I got was an online first person shooter game system that creates arena-like rapid fire duels. It attempts to create a system that combines magic with technology but it comes off as just labels for different kinds of healing vs. damage abilities. The graphics are decent and the action certainly works but it was not at all what I was expecting or hoped for. There is no story line whatsoever.

Tons of Fun for a month or two. [Posted on 2008-02-11]
This game is very fun when you get down to it, the gameplay depite what others have said is quite innovative, and if your playing on vista all the XBOX360 players love you. i run an Average system for vista 3GB of ram 2.0Duo core 256mb video card, and it runs great, only laggs when the game picks a bad server which is 1 in 20 games at most. this does get a bit boring after about 50hours. but its great fun until your tried every combo of magic, races, weapons and tech. The guy who said he had a robust system, he must of had some drivers out of date, because this game runs great. Im guessing 64bit has some graphics driver problems but thats nvidias fault not this very fun game.

can game wit freind [Posted on 2008-05-04]
I know to some this game blow but to let me and my friend play together we have a ball and I think its pretty cool but not the best so to me its worth $5 or $10 to buy cause still with out story it aint worth much but good multi fun for all so hope this helps

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