Shadowrun, the first-person shooter

[clyde]

Figured I'd load it up on Memorial Day when there'd be a possible crowd. I didn't really think anyone would be playing. I got into a full game immediately.

The action is as floaty as Little Big Planet, but I still have missed it.

It might be a little too floaty. First-person shooter design practices have improved a lot over the last eight years.

[Murdoc]

I'm now 90% sure you're an embedded viral marketer. Perhaps like one of those Japanese soldiers from ww2 that were hiding out on islands and didn't know the war was over, you're here ready to pounce on all the hot Shadowrun FPS talk.

 

But man, I can't imagine anyone talking or playing this game in 2014. Does it even run, was it on GFWL? Are we talking the PC version, was there a PC version? Anyway, I remembered it was kind of cool, but everyone hated it, which was a shame.

[clyde]

I have both the PC version and the Xbox 360 version. I don't have the PC version installed though. I probably put more than 300 hours into the game between its release in 2007 and 2009. It was one of the first xbox demos I played and I went out and bought it the next day. I've been watching first-person shooters catch up ever since. Admittedly, I never player Counter-Strike so the single-death/spectator mode was new to me but the game offered so much that I have watched other games slowly adopt. The only game that has compared in feel for me is Super Monday Night Combat, yet another misunderstood gem. What other game can you get the feeling of being a troll bleeding out under a tree of life with a shotgun? Not only that, how about those times you are a troll bleeding out under a tree with a shotgun and you are the only one left; they are running with the artifact and everyone on your team is watching you. The game was magic.

Accessibility was a huge problem though. I started considering the politics game of trying to explain to a majority in the lobby that this elf is lying and that he's commiting team-kills with katana at thebeginning of every round; but you'd have to get creative in order to get enough people to vote them out. Man I miss being into that game. The enemy team teleporting through the floor at the beginning of a match in the Dig Site and dying while trying to save your team; resigning to your role for the rest of the game calling out enemy positions with the camera that stayed over your dead body until someone destroyed it. Rezzing as a job; trying to convince someone over the mic that you are worth the essence it will reserve from them. "Nah man, I can't rez you, I need to be able to teleport." Oh I loved that game so much.

And gliding! No other game has provided me with the feeling of stalking prey like a hawk, gliding down upon them and snatching their life away. Not to mention the gust/glide combo or the teleport/glide synergy.

I found a video that gives people a good idea of the non-gliding portion of the game.

Edit: Just tried again tonight on the 360 and immediately found a full game. Time to get killed being clumsy. Hopefully I won't grenade the rest of my team.