Darkly
07-06-2008, 05:37 PM
shadowrun is the hugely underated shooter for the 360 and vista, it was released shortly before halo 3, coupled with the fact that theres no single player and this game got largely canned by reviews, and FASA studio got disbanded. To make things worse the game was full price and upon release had horrible connection issues. Luckily the only patch that came out fixed connection issues and runs fine, but sadly it has become a small community game.
The benefit of this is that you will actually see the same people every now and again, and honestly minus the odd few kids, many of the players love to play the game and will work as a team with you.
Onto the actual game lol, it's mechanics are difficult to simply explain - imagine a cross between counterstrike, some kind of fantasy game and almost rock paper scissors. To elaborate, you earn and spend money in a system similiar to counterstrike, amongst guns however is tech and magic which can be used in battle, and everything has a strength and a sort of weakness.
When i describe it to you it may sound broken even, but the people at FASA spent many years just perfecting the gameplay here and seriously everything fits, theres no tactic that cannot be countered and it makes for gameplay that seriously never ages.
So, gun wie you have strandard guns, smg rifle minigun etc. Magic: you have teleport, so you can teleport through walls, strangle - which drains essence and holds people in place. smoke - turns you invulnerable and negates fall damage - however gust - can jurt smoke users as well as blast grenades and such further away or blo enemy grenades back.
In addition you have ressurect and tree of life, the tree will heal anyone close to it and you can resurect fallen allies as long as their bodeis havn't been destroyed.
On the tech side of things you have enhanced vision - see through walls. glider - so you can float around the level, wired reflexes - run and reload faster - anti magic generators and smartlink - an accuracy enhancer.
The thing is everything has uses outside what it tells you in the manual - this game rewards your intelligence greatly - true you can outgun people in rare occasion, but outhink your opponent and you got a win nearly everytime.
Finally you have dfferent races, which further mix things up - you got humans who get more money and suffer no tech penalities - but are average stat wise.
elfs - popular noob class but still great in its own right - runs faster and has a lot of magic but suffers with little health.
troll - can harden its skin to take loads of damage by using its essence, they are big and slow
dwarf - loads of essence but takes a long time to recharge, so they can drain essence from anything around them - freind or foe.
There is still other details im glossing over, like weapon weight and character strength, as well as katanas being able to inflict mortal wounds, - which causes the character to slowly bleed to death etc. But i thought i'd make this thread purely to show some love to a really good multiplayer game that has been cast aside.
Oh yeah it cost me 7pounds for this game, or $15, so its even a cheap thrill now too!
The benefit of this is that you will actually see the same people every now and again, and honestly minus the odd few kids, many of the players love to play the game and will work as a team with you.
Onto the actual game lol, it's mechanics are difficult to simply explain - imagine a cross between counterstrike, some kind of fantasy game and almost rock paper scissors. To elaborate, you earn and spend money in a system similiar to counterstrike, amongst guns however is tech and magic which can be used in battle, and everything has a strength and a sort of weakness.
When i describe it to you it may sound broken even, but the people at FASA spent many years just perfecting the gameplay here and seriously everything fits, theres no tactic that cannot be countered and it makes for gameplay that seriously never ages.
So, gun wie you have strandard guns, smg rifle minigun etc. Magic: you have teleport, so you can teleport through walls, strangle - which drains essence and holds people in place. smoke - turns you invulnerable and negates fall damage - however gust - can jurt smoke users as well as blast grenades and such further away or blo enemy grenades back.
In addition you have ressurect and tree of life, the tree will heal anyone close to it and you can resurect fallen allies as long as their bodeis havn't been destroyed.
On the tech side of things you have enhanced vision - see through walls. glider - so you can float around the level, wired reflexes - run and reload faster - anti magic generators and smartlink - an accuracy enhancer.
The thing is everything has uses outside what it tells you in the manual - this game rewards your intelligence greatly - true you can outgun people in rare occasion, but outhink your opponent and you got a win nearly everytime.
Finally you have dfferent races, which further mix things up - you got humans who get more money and suffer no tech penalities - but are average stat wise.
elfs - popular noob class but still great in its own right - runs faster and has a lot of magic but suffers with little health.
troll - can harden its skin to take loads of damage by using its essence, they are big and slow
dwarf - loads of essence but takes a long time to recharge, so they can drain essence from anything around them - freind or foe.
There is still other details im glossing over, like weapon weight and character strength, as well as katanas being able to inflict mortal wounds, - which causes the character to slowly bleed to death etc. But i thought i'd make this thread purely to show some love to a really good multiplayer game that has been cast aside.
Oh yeah it cost me 7pounds for this game, or $15, so its even a cheap thrill now too!