The popular old role-playing franchise, which had a great game adaptation on the SNES and a terrible one on the Xbox 360 and PC, will be back in a manner more suitable considering the universe, which blends cyberpunk and old-world magic.
They’re working with the publishers of the actual Shadowrun pen-and-paper game to make sure it’s a faithful adaptation of the source, and with the game to run in a browser are hoping for maximum accessibility.
You can see the full announcement below.
First Shadowrun Online newsletter is finally here! [Shadowrun]
Lobo
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:13 PMA browser? Really?
Weresmurf
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7:16 AMI could give a shit if it ran in a piece of cardboard as long as its good.
Jamie
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:37 PMSQUEE! I love Shadowrun! It is a sadly dead license, along with pretty much everything else from FASA. It makes me sad! But now this, and the Mechwarrior game in the pipes, I am a happy girl!
Cephalxn
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:41 PMSo stoked, shadowrun is brilliant
Yazman
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 9:11 PMToo bad it’s going to be browser based :(
Ynefel
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 9:15 PMOh man, I had the US import of Shadowrun on my SNES as a teenager – I played the HELL out of that thing. Such an awesome game.
Iffy on a browser version though . =/
Sam Timmins
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 9:31 PMSaddened that this seems as lively and awesome as the XBOX game.
Sam Timmins
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 9:32 PMAt least channel the Beam Software SNES game!
Made in Australia awesomeness, only Shadowrun title to be a great game!
Husky
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 10:00 PMI loved the 360 version. Small community meant everytime I joined a game I knew most of them and they knew me. And only having nine maps meant everyone had them memorised. Such an awesome Online game, and I hate online usually. And everyone worked as a TEAM, something you rarely see in CoD (Hell, people don’t even play the right mode, I was playing domination and people called me an idiot when I got annoyed that I was the only one more concerned over capturing points than kills). I would love another game in the same vein, Me and the community were always discussing DLC, until the developers went bust.
raze35
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 10:18 PMShadowrun on 360 was great, plunkett your a hack who knows nothing :)
AerintheADEQUATE
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 11:45 PM“New Shadowrun!” -> Leans forward in seat
“Not a shooter!” -> Puts down coffee as excitement builds
“Browser Based….” -> Shoulders slump, picks coffee back up and leans back again, spirit broken
Patchy
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 11:56 PMI guess Shadowrun 360/PC wasn’t point and shoot enough for Luke
AerintheADEQUATE
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 8:00 AMLuke’s kind of a douche and I don’t know/care why he didn’t like it, but personally I’m a big fan of the SNES rpg-ish Shadowrun and the 360 multiplayer-only FPS was not at all what I was hoping for.
madatom
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 9:02 AMshadowrun 360 was amazing, the company that made it closed after its release, which resulted in its death
fact is, its 1 of the most balanced multiplayer shooters i ever played
Reoh
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 11:30 AMI always hoped Shadowrun would get a AAA MMO. They’re still interested in doing that if anyone has a spare 50-70mil to toss their way.
du5t
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 5:04 PMIf that happens say goodbye to my social life…
Gunny
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 1:27 PMI can tolerate being browser-based if it’s a reasonably faithful Shadowrun game. Unreasonably faithful is fine too.