Shadowrun Returns is a title that many don’t know about to be frank, and it make sense why. The original title came out around 1993 on the Super Nintendo acquiring great scores from all of the reviewers of the time, and acquiring the 48th best game on any Nintendo platform by Nintendo Power around 1997. Soon after, another game called Shadowrun was released on the Sega Genesis, but seemed to be more of a sequel taking place years after the first title, but not acquiring the same attention as the first one. Sadly, by 2007, the Shadowrun franchise seemed to have dug their own graves with the announcement of a first-person shooter known as Shadowrun, developed by FASA Interactive and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 along with the PC.
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.
But Microsoft said no.
One of my most expected games for this year. On steam it says it's going to be released this month :)
It totally does, I'm super hyped up fro the game, especially because the weird first-person shooter game called Shadowrun just didn't cut it out for me.
I spent a good amount of time on Shadowrun. Was pretty fun, if it is more polished this time around it could be a good hitter. Still have the game somewhere around this house..
cannot wait for this game, looks amazing, been following the dev talks and youtube gameplay
it looks epic!
Nice, nice nice. I hope they do the cybertech gameplay and companions justice.
I miss that game and I can't wait!