And Falls DIRECTLY into a big meaty pile of dog feces.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, we have yet another over-hyped game that doesnt even come CLOSE to living up to what was promised to us.
Welcome to what I now disgustingly call the "Chrome Hounds Philosophy" of the gaming industry.
Yes... once again.. they sold us HALF of a dang game..for a full game's price.
For those of you who haven't figured out what Im speaking about.. lemme clarify for you.
It's online only. Think Unreal Tournament. The only thing you can do is multi-player matches. Yeah.. they have offline bot match... but honestly.. there is only so many times i can do the same thing over and over and over again before i get disgustingly bored and tear it out of my system cursing the gaming industry for releasing yet another 63 dollar waste of space.
Sure, it looks and sounds great... but they didnt even come up with anything ORIGINAL as far as game mechanics go.. they have TWO... yes... TWO types of matches... capture the flag and deathmatch.. thats it. Sure, they dress up CTF as a pretty picture.. but thats all it is. They also blatently rip off Counter Strike with an in match "buy" menu that uses money you get for being "useful" in a match. (no, im not making that up.. im quoting the instructions manual word for word.)
They dont even have any ORIGINAL Shadowrun weaponry!! No Rippers, no Cyberdecks, NOTHING. Your slapped with a standard BORING array of SEVEN weapon choices.. Pistol (yawn) Rifle (Yaaaawwwn) SMG (yes, these are the ACTUAL names of them too.. not even something Shadowrunish..) Sniper Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Mini-Gun, Shotgun.
This game is a glorified CS:Source..
They dont even get the dang RACES right. Humans are humans.. (yawn.) Dwarves have some sort of Magical drain ability that nobody has ever heard of before.. (wtf...) Trolls have a "Skin Harden" ability where they take less damage if you try repeatedly shooting them. (...ok.. kinda different, in a decent way)..
Where they TOTALLY drop the ball is Elves.. yeah, they're fast and frail... but.. get this.. they have REGENERATION!??! WTH!?!?!? REGENERATION!?! ELVES DONT REGEN YOU MORONS.. TROLLS DO!
Once you have more then 3 abilities, your stuck slogging thru radial menu bs in order to access your spells and gear, and in a twitch game.. thats a suicide manuver.
0.5/10 If i wanted to play a pretty CS:Source... I'd download a skin mod. This game is a complete waste of your time and money. Dont even RENT this.. just point at it and laugh. Thank GOD i work for GameStop and I can return this PoS for something that might NOT suck
Posts
Allow me to refer you to them.8-)
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=21335
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=23743
Oh, and the forumer reviews are pretty decent so far, so maybe it's just you. Consider that for a sec, as well as the fact that if you want to bash on a game, there are much, much better choices than shadowrun. Just because you spent your $60 on a game without doing the research, doesn't mean everyone else was that dumb.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
I mean, it's freaking Shadowrun.
And how the crap do you buy the game without knowing that? It's like the guy just picked it up off the shelf because hey Shadowrun, the new totally loyal rpg I've been waiting for and was promised!
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Actually he has a good point re: source material rape.
Even if the game was good (sounds passable by all acounts) it certainly gets a big thumbs down for taking an interesting backstory and totally ignoring it.
Why not just make the same game with original IP and avoid the problem entirely? Its not like Shadowrun is a killer IP to begin with- it has a core of hardcore followers but hardly enough to warrant trying to sell a whole game on.