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Clip of FASA's canned Shadowrun emerges, was singeplayer reboot

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The cancelled singleplayer project 'Shadowrun: The Awakening' from ex-developer FASA has had some footage leak onto the Internet.

This reboot was ditched in favour of the multiplayer-only release in '07. FASA Studios was developing The Awakening for Xbox 360 and PC.
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McRad - 41 days 2 hours ago
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What the hell told them to bring the one out that they did instead of a fps/rpg hybrid? I'm a sad panda.
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Godmars290 - 41 days 2 hours ago
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1.1 - "What the hell told them to bring the one out that they did instead of a fps/rpg hybrid?"
MS of course. Probably felt being a Deus Ex with magic wouldn't have been strong enough title. That since multiplayer was the "it" thing at the time it would have been better as that.

Shows what PR guys know...
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edgeofblade - 41 days 1 hour ago
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If you got over your preconceptions of what a Shadowrun game was supposed to look like, the game that actually came out was impeccably balanced and tons of fun. It mixed together some of the finest traditions of FPS, and did so in a balanced way.

The fans destroyed this game for no good reason.
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Raz - 41 days ago
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1.3 - sad face ;(
I really enjoyed the original Shadowrun on Sega Genesis and it BURNS that we've lost any possibility of a next-gen remake.

Grrr. I wonder what the cyberspace screens were like?
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Godmars290 - 41 days ago
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1.4 - "The fans destroyed this game for no good reason."
You mean because it didn't meet with their expectations? Didn't come close except in the shallowest contexts?

What were they suppose to do, buy it regardless of the fact they didn't like it in the hope the next one wouldn't be more of the same?
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Guitarded - 41 days ago
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1.5 - Calling the game ShadowRun was this games only problem!
ShadowRun is still one of the most fun and balanced games on 360. If they would have just ditched the license and named it anything else it might have done better.
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edgeofblade - 40 days 22 hours ago
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The answer to your question is yes.

Honestly, my only knock on the way this game was handled was how it appeared to be marketed to RPG players when it should have been marketed to shooter players. The property was all wrong, but the game design was positively wonderful.
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Elven6 - 40 days 21 hours ago
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They were working on two Shadowrun games, one being this and the other being the one we have now. Microsoft "impacted" the development of both and unfortunately one of them was canceled and the other was released with doom written all over it. :(
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Godmars290 - 40 days 21 hours ago
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And in that case, unless more effort were put into it, they would have had a multiplayer-only FPS that featured limited magic or special abilities, relatively small maps and few play types. With no real name to sell it.

That Shadowrun main problem was that no real work had been put into it. Probably should have been a download title instead of the full - disc based title that it was.
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bigrudowsky - 41 days 2 hours ago
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they probably canned it cause it looked better than halo 3.. Those graphics are kinda sweet
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Godmars290 - 41 days 1 hour ago
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Looks decent enough if underwhelming. Would have benefited from more of a Blade Runner look.
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VoggNogg - 41 days 1 hour ago
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3.1 - The shadowrun that got away...
... Sad me is sad
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Cajun Chicken - 41 days ago
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FASA was a bloody good studio, Crimson Skies: HRTR was amazing, stupid Microsoft. Heres hoping Dark Void is amazing as it looks, long live Airtight Games!
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Elven6 - 40 days 21 hours ago
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I think the Airtight Team left before this, regardless, RIP FASA!
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BlackIceJoe - 41 days ago
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It sucks that this new Shadowrun single player game could not have came out. I think had MS allowed both Shadowrun versions to come out on the same game would have been cool. This way if people wanted to play
multi-player they could and if they wanted a story mode they would have had it. I so hope in the future MS will make a new Shadowrun RPG game.
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lucifon - 40 days 21 hours ago
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Sad face :( I hope the guys that split will return to Shadowrun and make a sequel. I loved that game so much, spent so many hours on it. It was just plain fun and different - something not many shooters are nowerdays. Yet due to a only 9 or so maps, and no singleplayer at full price the game got some relatively low scores causing low sales which is a huge pity.

If the game was released now for the first time it would totally be a downloadable only thing. 1600msp or something and boom you've got an awesome online only shooter. You could tell the guys at FASA put an absolute ton of love and care into the game, making it super balanced and what not.

Although that singleplayer footage trailer looked extremely generic to be fair. Dull environments remind me of FEAR (Dont get me wrong I love FEAR1). Bring back SR!
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Xi - 40 days 14 hours ago
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6.1 - microsoft owns the catalogue of fasa games.
And the liscenses have been awarded to smith and tinker which is founded by the original CEO and founder of fasa games, Jordan wiesman. They're currently working on mechwarrior
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