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Shadowrun for the 360
TeamXbox has the news that (squee) there may be a new Shadowrun videogame coming to market with the Xbox 360. From the article: "I have worked on many projects, ranging from PC games to console, FPS to role-playing. Right now, I am animating for an Xbox 2 project called Shadowrun. It's a first-person shooter based on an old paper RPG of the same name from a couple decades ago." Sounds like fun....but an FPS? Where's my SR MMOG?
The RPG on the Genesis was so good (honestly, I'm surprised there wasn't a sequel sooner), why change a winning formula?
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Bloodlines isn't a FPS; it's exactly what I wish they would do for Shadowrun, which is an RPG-style video game based on a pencil-and-paper RPG. The game in question, Vampire: The Masquerade (and now Vampire: The Requiem) is put out by White Wolf, the subject of the recent semi-scandal regarding pay-to-play for their live-action game rules. Basically, if there's going to be an adaptation of a pen-and-paper RPG to the video game medium, I'd much prefer it be something like Bloodlines (which I hear is a good RPG, though I haven't played it personally) as opposed to the FPS style Shadowrun game mentioned above or White Wolf's earlier FPS that was based on another one of their games (Hunter: The Reckoning).
This was announced and canned like 5 years ago. Microsoft had the rights to Shadowrun and had announced a game called Shadowrun: Assassins.
The game was *gasp* an FPS.
About a year and a half into production, Microsoft canned it. The game starred a scantily clad heroine, and basically looked nothing like Shadowrun. This is probably that game.
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You keep using that word. I do no think it means what you think it means.
I wonder how erked some execs where when they found out they were selling a piece of software that suggested technology made you less human. O_o
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It's about time we get another First Person Shooter game! This one's automatically on my "to buy" list!
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Hunter isn't directly derived from Vampire, but it is a video game adaptation of a roleplaying game by the same company who puts out V:tM. The company is White Wolf and the game is Hunter: the Reckoning. Basically the games are set in the same world and can be used in crossovers as antagonists for one another, but it's also easy to play either one on its own.
For something that's not meant to be a cheap stab, that's a pretty cheap stab.
I like my Xbox because it has the biggest selection of adventure games even made for a console. I bet you didn't see that one coming.
(True, it would be nice if it had some flight sims that weren't "arcade"-y, and some experimental Katamari Damarcy games would be appreciated, but I think the Xbox has a pretty good balance of games, overall.)
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It's a first-person shooter based on an old paper RPG of the same name from a couple decades ago.
A couple decades ago? Ahh, I guess that explains this.