valorant but good
This was the first Shadowrun game I ever played, or even heard of, so I actually have a higher opinion of this than most. It's really just a Counter-Strike rip off with orcs, elves, and magic powers, but can you honestly tell me a CS rip off with orcs, elves, and magic doesn't sound at least a little bit fun?
I imagine if I was a fan of the franchise this game wouldn't have landed for me, but I'm not so I had quite a good time with this.
I imagine if I was a fan of the franchise this game wouldn't have landed for me, but I'm not so I had quite a good time with this.
Shadowrun was easily one of my favorite games of its era. It took the gameplay loop that has made Counter-Strike so successful and then expanded on it. The addition of races with unique benefits, tech, and magic gave so many options for how to play the game and dramatically enhanced the experience. Of all of the games that come to mind, I'd like nothing more than a sequel to Shadowrun on today's hardware.
The best Counter Strike clone of all time
i remember this being a lot of fun, but i only played the demo. didn't get the full game because nobody played it. too bad
Counter Strike with fantasy creatures is a kick ass idea. It's incredible that they fucked it up so hard.
The 360 era was a time of taking classic game franchises and dumbing them down for the console generation. This wasn't always a bad thing. Fallout 3 and NV are great examples of it actually working really well. The truth is some game types are better left on the PC with a mouse and keyboard. Shadowrun maybe epitomises this more than any other game on the console, with the cyberpunk strategy rpg story based game becoming, yes you guessed it, a multiplayer online shooter. If this isn't disappointing, then I don't know what is. So was it a complete disaster? Well not really. It is a fairly decent online shooter with some interesting mechanics which is still populated to this day. You can select from different races of characters with different skills and battle in team based first person fun, with all the standard modes like capture the flag and team deathmatch. The respawn system is quite cool. If you die a teammate can respawn you, but if they then die, you will die with them. It's a nice mechanic which adds to the complexity of a game. You can also pay to buy certain skills like summoning monsters to help you. It's quite unique and feels like a 2007 version of overwatch. With that being said, at some point people will stop playing online, and then we will be left with effectively a bot shooter. Don't get me wrong, including bots is a great idea and all multiplayer games should include them. But it's not really the same. The game's single player is basically a tutorial mode. It is cool to see this weird fantasy style multiplayer shooter with spells and abilities, but it's a shame that at some point this will be obsolete. For that reason I probably can't recommend it. Bonus points for the ace box art though.
I remember this being a REALLY fun and unique CS clone. Shame another game of its caliber never really came from the ashes of this.
I ran this game into the DIRT
When this game was at it's prime it was the best of times, remember the devs saying they were going to add more races and content to the game but then the team was shut down :(
Here's the deal people, most of you have not played this game or haven't spent enough time to understand it. Take my word for it, this is the greatest multiplayer game ever created. The weapons and abilities introduced in this game created combat that was dynamic. Each encounter had endless possibilities. The game didn't have enough maps and lost support too quickly but for those that played it at its prime, they'll never forget it.