Shadowrun Game to Rewrite the SR Universe

adamp writes "Shadowrun has officially been confirmed as a squad-based FPS for the PC and Xbox 360. From the look of the trailer released at Microsoft's Press event yesterday, it's not the game we know and love. Fasa Interactive has decided to rewrite the universe in an attempt to not make anyone angry. It's currently not working."

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The really sad part.

[sammy baby]

That means in our first game, magic has just returned to the near future. It means that you are one of the first people to combine magic, technology and weapons to accomplish a clandestine goal. You are one of the first Shadowrunners.

You know the really sad part? There probably could have been a great game here. The backstory for the Shadowrun game had a great buildup involving the return of magic to the world, and Unexplained Genetic Expression, the Indian War, and the conflict between haves and have-nots and tribes and governments and corporations and whatall in general. The backstory included tons of "pre-Shadowrun" goodness that would have made for a great story setting.

But this doesn't sound like that game.

Will that game ever be released? Dunno. In the meantime, I'll be waiting for Shadowrun: The Great Ghost Dance.

For $Deity's Sake, RTF(asa)Article!

[Anonymous Coward]

"We decided to restart the Shadowrun timeline"

The games are prequels! They'll be set in approx. 2011 or so, which explains what we've seen so far: it'll be the corps/armed forces fighting a retreating action against the mysteriously powered Ghost Dancers (and you pushing out the "invader" pale faces as a Native). The chaos of the civil war will cover the "unexplainable" appearance of the usual SR races/magical creatures, and the early time period will cut out most of the unbalanceable
cybertech - no wired reflexes or smart weapons yet (save for a couple experimental cases for boss fights), and our tech from 5 years from now makes the beginnings of cyberjacks doable.

I imagine an opening movie much like Command & Conquer's "flipping through cable news intro": Tensions flared in the American Southwest as natives ignored US government orders to surrender their weapons-bzzt-German protestors destroyed a Genecorp research and development hub in Frankfurt today, enraged over what they claim is "undeniable proof of banned human genetic engineering" (show shot of a 3 year old child, obviously an elf)-bzzt-tech upstart Fuchi stock shot up 500% on reports of successful clinical trials of their Direct Neural Interface-bzzt-etc.

The gameplay could offer some surprises in introducing SR material as well, e.g. A nighttime overland raid on a Salish camp goes horribly wrong, Far Cry style, as a Wendigo shows up and starts picking off squadmates. And imagine the finale: competing against a Navaho team to secure a powerful magical artifact at the bottom of a mexican volcano, your squad is suprised to find what appears to be human made stone work in the tunnels under the volcano - but not half as suprised as when they find the artifact - a Dragon, awakening from its slumber, whom you have to fight off until it flies off (to join the Flight of Dragons battle royale they had.)

Ending movie: Radio chatter - "Get the hell out of there! I think its the end of the world!". Shot changes to a satellite shot of a dozen dragons rising over the mexican landmass, converging on a point, then unleashing breath weapons and death spells at one another, until a stray blast shorts out the satellite.
-To be continued.-

Sure, like all prequel material it can be ruined by too many clever cameos and conincidences, but I think the SR history is strong enough to support these games. Too bad the game itself isn't say, a KoToR-ian deal.

Even worse than we thought, apparently.

[mbourgon]

From reading the forums, Fasa Studios (the game devs) are promoting this as an team multiplayer title. It's Counterstrike, with teleport and wings.

Some video. I personally wouldn't watch it. It'll just disappoint you. Very much an FPS ala Unreal Tournament. Sad, since Crimson Skies was a good game, and they've done a decent job (some good, some bad) with Battletech over the years. But this? *shudder*

http://xbox360movies.ign.com/xbox360/video/article /706/706895/shadowrungameplay_qtlowwide.mov