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The domain name www.shadowrun.com is redirecting people to a FASA Studio splash page (http://www.fasastudio.com/portal.htm) that looks like this (shrunk down):

(http://www.pandadesigns.com/games/fasastudio_splash_450.jpg)

Yeah, but it's a shooter though, right?  :|

Yes, that's what the various sites reporting this are saying.

And it looks like an xbox title, not a 360 one. Blurgle.

So close to a "giggity" there.  I only played first ed. Shadworun, but it was loads of fun.

But this one will probably just be another shallow shooter (look what happened to 40k titles or Fallout). One made by Microsoft at that.

Damn. My Shadowrun inner fanboy nearly messed his pants.

Maybe this will be a giant success and lead to a RPG? I can hope...

Hopefully they'll fix the PnP mechanics. 

From Firing Squad: (http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10165)


Since some of you are interested.

I don't even know what a Shadowrun is.

Cyberpunk with elves.

It's a lot cooler than it sounds.

Cyberpunk with elves, orcs, dwarves, humans, AND magic then?  :wink:

Don't forget giant handfuls of 6 sided dice. Rolling damage on a big spell/shot was pure joy.

If I wanted to roll gobs of six-sided dice, I'd play Champions :D Punching enemies through walls and sucking up rocket launcher shots to the chest.  Now that's gameplay.

Knockback ftw! That is one thing that CoH totally missed the boat on IMHO.

Don't forget trolls.  Big, brainless trolls that could carry gunnery normally only mounted to vehicles.  I loved playing big and stupid.

Apparently we're looking at a Jan 2007 release (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/706/706226p1.html).

It will come out for the Vista launch?  Hah, is that like saying "Don't hold your breath?"  or "Yes, the game is under development.  Really."

"In my country, OS crashes game!"

(http://www.e3insider.com/_media/?type=image&format=fullSize&source=gp_screenshot_9.jpg)

From E3Insider.com (http://www.e3insider.com/images/?type=screenpax&articleID=GN30SB785E)

Looking at those screenshots I'm a little disappointed that they didn't go with a more urban setting (or at the very least they just haven't shown off any screenshots of anything in an urban setting).  These screenshots just did not make me think of Shadowrun.  Not seeing much in the way of non-humans or any sort of visible cyberware either.

Given one of the side's dress and the style of decor, I would say that is all in an Aztechnology building.  Hopefully we'll get some other scenery and metahumans soon.

(I do wish this was more than a shooter, but maybe they'll turn this into a franchise and we can get the RPG one day.)

  After a brief perusal of the now online shadowrun.com I have to ask where are the FUCKING SHADOWRUNS!!!  I wanted to steal corporate data and prototypes, assassinate gang leaders, and get jumped in the middle of a crowded street, and get paid not to care what the backstory is.  between the glowing trees, the glowing fetish, and the glowing ambient light there aren't even any shadows WTF.  No shadows!  No runs!  God damn MS.

IGN has a trailer (http://media.pc.ign.com/media/827/827006/vid_1497339.html).

Maybe the combat will be fun, but this just really doesn't seem like a Shadowrun game.  Certainly this isn't the kind of storyline I'd start off with if I wanted to build up a new Shadowrun video game franchise.

Having looked at the screenies, i can honestly say that this looks nothing like what i would, um.... expect Shadowrun to look like. It reminds me more of Unreal Tournament more than anything else. And while i realise that there has to be a certain percentage of 'let's show off our not-really-any-more-detailed-than-any-other-game-but-oh-so-shiny-engine', but come on. Where's the urban decay at dammit.

I can't fully express how disappointed I am with this, the required profanity has yet to be invented.  That's not shadowrun though.

There's plenty of urban decay in the cinematic teaser but that thing has, uh, other issues.

Ok, just saw the trailer. Why is the tribe of red-pantsed elves taking the blue flag?

What exactly is it missing, for you, or anyone else for that matter?  The RPG side of it?

It doesn't look at all like a Shadowrun game to people who have played the PnP game.

It looks like Unreal Tournament capture the flag with elves.

Everyone I've talked to about this game has had the exact same reaction.

"Holy shit, new Shadowrun?  Yeah, fucking sweet!  Wait, what?  Oh, it's a shooter.  Oh.  Well, um, whatever.  Maybe they'll make an RPG eventually."

Way to go, Microsoft.

This was really the only shooter at E3 that I was interested in.  It looked pretty fun actually.  The scenario they were running (which is presumably a small subset of the world) had a surprising amount of story for an FPS.  I foreget the details, I'm not a Shadowrun fanboi, but basically it was about two corporations (teams) where one was trying to horde major artifacts of the world and another was trying to steal them / prevent the first corp from controlling them.  It wasn't the sort of thing where you can respawn either.  Once dead you stayed dead although teams seemed to be able to collect a certain allotment of "extra lives" (I think this was a form of handicapping but it wasn't clear).  So the scenario ended in a few minutes either with the artifact successfully captured and stolen or the stealing team eliminated.

The game is somewhat RPG'like.  Choosing your race seems to be pretty important and you start with and earn money to buy enhancements, magic, weapons, etc.  The person I was talking to stressed that the magic was very environmental.  He said that you won't be shooting fireballs or lightning bolts at anyone.  Magic that I saw included growing a tree in the middle of the battlefield, ressurecting a teammate and teleporting through walls.  Enhancements that I saw included a very cool effect for enhanced vision which allowed the player to see opponents through walls and a glider that allowed very efficient gliding through the walls.  There was a lot of jumping off of cliffs, to then teleport through a wall, and glide to a landing.  It was very hard to follow the play at first although I got used to it.

Anyway, I'm not really an FPS fan but I thought the game did look promising.

Counter-Strike, with Elves (http://www.gamesfirst.com/?id=1310).

Fuck.

 :cry:

Well, i'm pretty good at the countar-straek, so i have that going for me i guess. Elf CTF, not so much  :?

So how is this different from Tabula Rasa? 

Disappointing trailer.

One of the best things about the PnP Shadowrun was all the backstory.  I still have those modules and handbooks and should dig them out.  Great storylines.  They were written back in the XFiles heyday and they are not only well written, but filled with involved backstories and conspiracies.  Hell, I even read the novels.  I literally read Bug City in one whole night non-stop since I knew very little of the setting and it freaked me out the more I read. 

Great to see another video game missing an opportunity.  Probably will have as much depth as MEO:LOTRO will have.

They are totally different except for the fact that both are sci-fi-ish. Tabula Rasa is a twitchy persistent world MMORPG with some FPS elements. Shadowrun is a multiplayer (up to 16 players total) FPS Counter-Strike/single flag CTF game. It has the exact same elements as CS -- short rounds (4 minutes), no respawning during a round, and purchasing of "stuff" at the beginning of the round. As for the CTF aspects I'm assuming its more like a single-flag Team Fortress than traditional 3Wave-style two flag CTF where the flag stays where it drops and doesn't "reset" back to its starting position if the opposing team touches it. However given the short rounds the game is very likely going to play like CS where it's mostly about killing the other side than actually capturing the flag. It's also a dual platform Xbox 360/Windows Vista game which means the Xbox 360 players will need some aiming "cheats" to have any chance of competing with the Vista mouse/keyboarders so I don't know how they are going to balance that properly.

Edit: fixed typos.

I wish it was an MMO.

Me too. On the other hand, it has inspired me to purchase the 4th edition rules, pretend they were in place in 2050, and introduce a few friends of mine to the shadows. No theoretically trolls to make the GM scream. :)

This just...sucks. Of all the things you could do, why a FPS? What's the point?

Not just an FPS, but apparently, a CTF only FPS. I can actually understand a single player story and adventure based FPS (with the customary multiplayer elements), but this doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

You're kidding. That's not just a PvP mode demo? Damn. What an utter waste of the license. When it crashes and burns, because it's got nothing anyone fucking wants (not the SR fans and I suspect not the FPS fans), I suspect the license will be blamed not the game.

Well, that's what the article says at least. Maybe they're still working on the storymode or something.

There is a single-player mode but that's for training missions and you can also play CTF with bots.

So it's going to be Battlefield: Shadowrun and only on the 360? What is the fucking point?

Apparently, these guys are saying that Shadowrun is set to be the flagsip shooter for the X-Box. Apparently, they've never heard of Halo.

Maybe they are going to render the sweat beads on players' foreheads.  Instant classic.

I'm not that troubled that they're not including gobs of backstory.  That's basically what they did with MechAssault ("Okay, you're like, in this army or something, Wolf's Dragoons, only it's not an army, it's like, mercenaries, so I guess someone, I forget who, hired you to like, invade this planet or something OKAY GO DO IT") and that turned out okay, because the gameplay at least kind of resembled the setting.  But teleportation? Hang Gliders?  THESE are the major features of Shadowrun?

How many games have tried to be the next Counterstrike?  And how many have succeeded?  That is not a pretty ratio, there.

Is this the first Shadowrun video game since the SNES and Genesis?

According to Moby Games (http://www.mobygames.com/game_group/sheet/gameGroupId,2523/) there was a Sega CD Shadowrun game in 1996 but then that's been it.