A competent multiplayer shooter with the balance of a Chinese acrobat, Shadowrun is pure liquid cocaine to some and cheap low-grade street heroin to others. Whether or not you’ll actually enjoy the experience really doesn’t depend on the design of the game itself, but rather on what kind of gamer you are.
If you’re the type of person whose very existence depends on crushing the small, utter pathetic, ambitions of others for no reason other than stroking off your own ego than yes, Shadowrun is just what you need. With superb balance, solid combat and surprisingly deep and drawn out combat customization, Shadowrun does everything to feed your addiction.
However, if you’re an average gamer, a normal person or complete pussy, you’re probably going to be disappointed when you find out that unlike your unblinking, twitchy roommate with a worldwide ranking of 2, Shadowrun doesn’t give you a ten foot erection and certainly isn’t going to lead you to the promised land.
That’s not to say that you won’t have fun playing Shadowrun, just that you won’t be having quite as much fun and you probably won’t feel like you got your money’s worth. Where the competitive asshole only cares about solid gameplay and performance, the average gamer cares about content and without a doubt content is Shadowrun’s biggest short coming.
In keeping with my earlier analogy about your roommates enjoyment level, if Shadowrun’s content was a penis it’d be about the size of your thumb. Not big enough to have a major impact, but still large enough you can sit on it and spin. With only four races, three game types, nine maps and seven weapons, things get repetitive fast and the joy of playing wears away. To make matters worse the game has been on the market for months with no additional content and developer FASA Studios has been shut down.
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1 - Tan The Man
Love the macho symbolisms...