We could have had a vent-crawling immersive sim/RPG based on Shadowrun 16 years ago, but Microsoft decided to cut it.
The cyberpunk-fantasy world of 1989 tabletop RPG Shadowrun has been adapted into videogames multiple times, beginning with an RPG for the SNES all the way back in 2003. In 2007, FASA Studio and Microsoft released a multiplayer shooter in the vein of Counter-Strike based on the setting, and it sank like a stone. At the time, a full-price shooter that was multiplayer-only was an even bigger risk than it would be today, and fans of Shadowrun saw it as a genre mismatch.
"It was a linear, progression-based System Shock-style RPG-type experience," said community manager David Abzug. He also explained that, rather than using the same maps as the multiplayer mode, the campaign would have had its own bespoke levels and taken in the breadth of the setting, including its virtual world, the Matrix."That's one of the reasons why it got cut," he said."It was very expansive.
Shadowrun has been back in the news lately because fans kept it running via peer-to-peer wizardry long after official servers were shut down. When a recent update of Microsoft's matchmaking service incidentally broke the unofficial community-run version of Shadowrun,. Against the odds, this 16-year-old shooter has had a revival of sorts, and is being played again today.
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