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.

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MMORPG

[Renraku]

A Shadowrun MMORPG would do really well. Imagine The Matrix Online without the suck and emphasis on h2h combat.

They could impliment a bunch of rules directly from the books. I'm envisioning a stop-action type of game. For example, imagine a combat situation. Like, turn based for each player but they don't have long to take their turn or decide what to do. You move half of your limit (displayed on the ground where your move limits are) and turn to shoot. The action goes pretty fast once the turns are decided. Complete with sports-like camera angles showing the action.

So our hero, half-crouching in a walk pops up for a surprise shot at a nearby gang member who is shooting at his friends. The member turns around just in time to see him, and the camera focuses on the look of surprise. It shows the dice roll in the window as he fires his shot, and it shows the dice roll for damage against him. Then the reaction of the target.

Instead of the watered-down shit they have for D&D Online.

Could be an awesome game, but no..

Re:hopefully

[Zeio]

That game was a lot of fun. I wish they made like 5 of those games on the same engine.

I also enjoyed the Sega Genesis versions qiute a bit as well.

Look, those games were at least something, the storyline and the Showdowrun world is so, so so cool and there is so much that could be done with it. Frick, just about every video game could be based on that world. Imagine grand theft auto in SHADOWRUN world? That would rule!