While many critics gave Shadowrun poor reviews for not offering a single player experience, I and many others that own an Xbox 360, chose this console due to its online multiplayer, not to bore ourselves with single player stories.
For $60 they said its just too much for a multiplayer only game. Well, I picked up 2 copies (one for my wife) @ the $60 price tag and never looked back! Now that the games price has come down there is no reason to pass up on this fantastic online shooter! You can pick it up most anywhere for $20 used or $30 new.
Shadowrun is a team-based online shooter, nothing more and nothing less. However, its gameplay and replay value are ground-breaking! You start out by going through a 6 level training seminar on how to play the game and you learn valuable information on how to effectively use your weapons, but more importantly your magic and tech.
Shadowrun is like a blend of Counter-Strike (round-based shooter w/ purchases made in-between rounds) and CoD4(w/ its perks) Though instead of selecting stopping power or juggernaut...you select things like teleport, and resurrect (which allows you to bring teammates back to life)...oh BTW - none of the 3 gametypes include respawns - being resurrected is the only way to "respawn" in the middle of a round.
The 3 gametypes included are (my favorite) Attrition...think Gears of War, your job is to eliminate the other team or hold the artifact (flag) when the time runs out. In this gametype you are able to effectively put the magic "resurrect" to use, because in the other two gametypes once you die, you are vulnerable to damage from enemies...a few shots or a few clips (depending on how bad you're getting beaten) and your body will disappear and you will not see any more action until the next round.(usually a 30 sec to 2 minute wait) In attrition your body will stay where it is unless the other team grabs the artifact (flag) and bashes you repeatedly with it until your body is gone. Therefore, resurrect is essential in the gametype "attrition"...now most times you can only life twice, unless you are getting beaten very badly...when that happens "karma" comes into effect and your team is blessed with a fighting chance...from being able to live more than twice...to players being able to resurrect more people than normal.
The other gametypes include "Raid" which is an attack and defend gametype...one team attacks for the entire match, while the other team defends. The last gametype is "Extraction" which is similar to a neutral flag gametype, both teams rush the center of the map to get the flag...once you have it you must deliver it in the enemies spawn.
As you can see, there is a lot to learn and a lot to love about this wonderful online shooter. I just don't get some of these reviews today...I swear most people that get paid to review games don't even consider multiplayer as a valuable component within today's games. Take the reviews for "single-player" only games...they don't knock them constantly throughout the review for not offering a multiplayer portion do they? Yet you play those once through and you've been there done that...excuse me, but how is that worth $60!
ShadowRun arrived in 2007 and is still played by a core audience on modern consoles and PC today, despite a bungled launch.
Played it a few months back. Not a stellar mp game at its time, but still genuine & janky fun.
I have never played Shadowrun. However, the universe of Shadowrun seems like a good setting for various game genres. The franchise combines traditional fantasy tropes with cyberpunk science fiction.
Yeah since the megadrive game I’ve always thought how cool the setting and premise is but the game never really delivers on gameplay.
Really enjoyed this back on 360. Was one of the first pc games I played as well. Nice to see it's still online I'm going to have to see about getting a copy on pc again.
Edit: is this backward compatible with series X?
The Shadowrun RPGs from Harebrained Schemes were great, but that IP is just begging for a massive, Cyberpunk 2077-style game. Open world action RPG epic with a healthy dose of immersive sim goodness.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
Thanks to the work of Shadowrun fans and Microsoft, the 13 year old game's multiplayer servers have been revived.
Nice!....If I didn't know any better I was expecting MS to close all their studios, except Sledgehammer & IW, triple the price of GP overnight, ruin Sony, and focus on releasing a new version of CoD every 6 months. lol, but no gaming just rolls on.
Classic doom and gloom. Lol. Looks it is indeed rolling on and with better value for gamers.
"No instead they will triple the price of game pass over time"
-You mean like how a loaf of bread doesn't cost 80 cents anymore? *over time vs *overnight= big difference, plus if the sub ever becomes too expensive, Xbox gamers can always choose the only option ps offers for new games= buy them full price, lol
"extort money from Sony for at least the next 10 years"
-oh, so publishers/devs have been extorting all 3 platforms since the beginning of consoles, is that what it's called, NOW???, lmfao
"and ruin COD going forward."
-Wait, I thought CoD despite being the best selling game every year was already ruined?, according to the constant pop opinion on n4g long before this MS deal CoD has been trash, so?
-Pretty flat arguments...too easy really.
Seriously. Seems like every step they took forward they messed up by doing something non gamer friendly. Hopefully this is the right track
Haha, my brother would love that. He was a big fan of Conker, an interesting squirrel to say the least lol. What a game. I liked what I played of it.
Check out Insignia Live, a replacement XBL service for the OG Xbox, the Conker servers are back up there. Played it the other day with some people
I loved the game. Remember getting the achievement for killing someone on widows Vista and learning at that moment that I was playing with pc players from my 360.
