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360 Shadowrun Title Partially Confirmed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-deal-with-a-dragon dept.

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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  1. Long live Shadowrun by static0verdrive · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Long live Shadowrun by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Assuming you have spent every night awake drinking pots of tea and playing Shadowrun since 1989 (when the first edition was released), you would now have roughly 310 dollars.

  2. It's coming. by Keen+Anthony · · Score: 5, Informative
    "If true, this project will mark the first American Shadowrun video game in over twelve years..."
    There's not really much rumor or myth to it, the game IS coming, according to Team Xbox. Gamespot.com has a placemarker up for it, which probably isn't saying much alone.

    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.