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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.
I'd be a rich man for every nickel I had for each night spent awake drinking pots of tea and eating boxes of KD while playing the tabletop RPG version of Shadowrun. Possibly one of the best RPGs, I couldn't have been happier or more surprised to read this article. D&D was kinda cool, but the SR dice rules always took the cake - and being based directly on William Gibson's vision of the future/the matrix, I have (for years) loathed Hollywood and Keanu Reeves thanks to SR.
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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..
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
No, FASA. As in FASA Studio, which is the renamed remnants of FASA Interactive, which was purchased by Microsoft back in the XBox days.
Are you kidding? That little foxgirl sprite was HOT!
Another Team Xbox story mentions that a game artist's resume revealed that he had been working on high-poly count characters for Shadowrun for the last five years.
I have just enough karma pool and an Armtech grenade launcher that says the game will be here soon.
Isn't that like being half pregnant?
"360 Shadowrun Title Partially Confirmed" - according to reliable sources in the industry the word "Shadowrun" will be part of the title.
In other news "Color of Napoleon's white horse partially confirmed as being white"
Yeah, but Deus Ex could be called a "FPS game with limited RPG elements".
And that game made me a happy panda.
There are no gods but ourselves.