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Install XLiveRedist. Captures and Snapshots Windows. Both character and background graphics have surprising depth of detail, though the animation and screen scrolling are a little bit jerky. The game has a limited palette, but the colors available are used quite effectively to enhance the background bitmaps.
Most of the game's futuristic, techno-influenced songs are acceptable and a few are actually catchy. The Redmond Jump House music is particularly catchy. The sound effects are decent enough, though not particularly impressive. Shadowrun is a good RPG. It has an interesting plot, well thought out gameplay mechanics, and it faithfully recreates the popular Shadowrun pencil-and-paper RPG. These giant, powerful Corporations frequently hire members of the underworld to do their bidding.
Good thing that could never really happen. Into the fray come the Shadowrunners, small-time mercenaries who take a job, or "run," for any amount of money. They're kind of like the Teamsters of thugs, and they can put a hurtin' on you in a hurry. You play as a Shadowrunner who wants to know what happened to your brother. He's been fragged by someone with connections to the upper echelons of power in the city, and you want that slag-head dead.
You pick from three types of characters: a Samurai, a mercenary hunter skilled with weapons; a Decker, who's a computer whiz; or a Shaman, a mystical magic-user. Each character has his own set of skills and specialties. You can hire other 'runners to help you out, but they ain't cheap. Running roadblocks in your path are the Corporations. They have a group of ores running the police-enforcement division, known as Lone Star.
When you're not fighting these goons, you'll go up against the Matrix, a huge computer system that runs transactions for every business in the world. You "deck" into the system to gather information and Nuyen, which is postapocalyptic money.
You'll need the money to purchase anything from guns to cyberhardware the computer accessories required for Matrix runs. As you start to gather skill and Nuyen, you unlock clues to your brother's murder.
You also meet some of the strangest characters this side of San Francisco, so keep on your toes. Shadowrun sports two shadowy views. The first view is an overhead look that takes place whenever your'runner is walking. This is when you'll fight the thugs and miscreants of futuristic Seattle. The graphics are small and muddled, and the sprites lack detail. The second view is a first-person perspective that takes place when your 'runner is in cybercombat in the Matrix.
You'll see giant IC chips and computer Nodes flash in front of you while you try to zap them into memory hell. Although this view looks better, it's boring because nothing major happens.
The tinny sounds are out of place. Voice effects and more futuristic music would have enhanced this game. The only clear sound is the death-cry of your'runner when he bites the dust. If you have a powerful weapon in hand, and your Negotiation rating is high, try to get the Ghoul run from the Johnson in the Redmond Barrens. You can make a certain percentage per hit, making big bucks in the process. Don't take a 'runner. As for controls, it was easier playing the board game on which Shadowrun is based than guiding characters through seamy Seattle.
It's especially awkward to use weapons, because you target your victims by pressing a button. If there are lots of heavies coming after you which usually happens , you may have to press frantically to cycle through the entire gang in order to zero in on the guy in front before he turns your head into oatmeal.
If he moves to the rear, you start all over again! If you're a real RPG die-hard, it shouldn't deter you. Be warned, though. You'll make hundreds of runs before you have the Nuyen to buy even basic items, or the Karma to build up your Attributes, so get ready to put in some hours. If you like that kind of methodic character development and consistent game play, then this is for you. Or if you're tired of seeing knights, castles, and dungeons, then walk to the seamy side of the city and run with these Shadows.
I Played Shadowrun in a room of eight people, and the whole time we were playing nobody laughed. Nobody congratulated each other on a particularly skilful kill, nobody giggled at an embarrassing death and absolutely nobody slammed their mouse on the desk and screamed in anger at a kill they felt cheap or unfair. In short, as a PC deathmatch vehicle, Shadowrun is a failure. It's a joyless grind, mediocre on and simply pointless on PC.
It's frustrating too since, alongside some isolated sparks of genius, there's a good premise here. You begin each round as you would Counter-Strike - using money you've earned to buy bigger and better weapons and equipment. In a stunning twist though, you don't simply buy crap, ineffective weapons, but also invest in different magical and technological abilities.
These power-ups can then be stored in the buttons labelled 1, 2 and 3 on your keyboard and brought out to play whenever your magic-o-meter isn't drained of tech-juice. It's a decent enough system that alongside a choice of races to play as lets you build your character into a semi-personalised Team Fortress-style class.
It also means that the action cascades from basic shooty-cuffs into ever more crazed fragfests - dwarves swooping around on gliders firing mini-guns into the fray, katana-wielding elves with upgraded reflexes automatically swiping bullets away and life-giving trees sprouting at tactically significant bottlenecks. It sounds cool, and is cool, and when supplemented by the RPG-inspired magical ability that lets you summon a terrifyingly strong minion to guard a particular area, you can't help but think that someone deep in FASA Studio is a rather switched-on individual.
Whatever format you play it on though, you're pretty much guaranteed a good time. It's set in a dark and gritty universe which is a mix of cyberpunk-style sci-fi and fantasy, where hi-tech gear and gadgets sit comfortably alongside magic and elves.
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