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360 Shadowrun Title Partially Confirmed
Via Gamasutra, a mysterious outline on the FASA website of a quartet of Shadowrunners. This likely indicates that the much rumoured Shadowrun title for a Microsoft console will be making an appearance sometime soon. Hopefully even next week. From the article: "If true, this project will mark the first American Shadowrun video game in over twelve years, following games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis, which were developed by Beam Software and BlueSky Software, respectively." Ahh, the SNES version of Shadowrun. Being a Dog Shaman was never so much fun.
Wow. Just wow. I played the SNES version endlessly (one of the better SNES RPGs in my opinion). I played the Genesis version (it had cyberspace!). I had no friends with which to ever play the tabletop version. I feel like the cyberpunk/hacker genre is woefully under represented in videogames. It makes me happy that someone is trying to fill in this gap.
Lemme guess... FPS, UnrealEngine 3!! ZOMG! BAJILLION PIXEL TEXTURES@!
(I do hope it's good.)
Are you kidding? That little foxgirl sprite was HOT!
"360 Shadowrun Title Partially Confirmed" - according to reliable sources in the industry the word "Shadowrun" will be part of the title.
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to those for whom a good game would even make me purchase the 360. I'm such a fan of the SNES and the genesis versions (I preferred the genesis version due to the "cyberspace hacking" interface), and I would happily plunk down over $400 to get the game and a 360 (knowing that I'll like the 360 in general, and this game being the game to make me take the plunge...).
/runs off to dust off the emulator and the PC controller to relive the old days.
Point being, of course, that it has to be done right... if they make a game worthy of the 360, in the Shadowrun universe (can you imagine online play? It's like a tabletop thing, almost! Yay!) then I'd totally buy almost regardless of cost. It's my favorite RPG universe, and I'm very excited at the prospect.
Yeah, but Deus Ex could be called a "FPS game with limited RPG elements".
And that game made me a happy panda.
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