By the middle of the 21st Century, cybernetics and technology have changed the Earth into a dark and mysterious wasteland, where beasts, cyborgs, and humans coexist. At the outset of the game, you awaken in the city morgue, obviously, whoever brought you here thought you were dead. Unable to remember anything about your past, you embark on a journey to discover who wants you dead and why. In this real-time RPG, you're in for the fight of your life as you take on everything that comes your way, from dragons to vampires to heavily armored hitmen. While on your journey you'll make some allies, but you never quite know whom to trust in this adventure through the future. If you can survive long enough, you just may be able to find out who wants you dead and turn the tables!
Welcome to 2050, chummer.
Shadowrun is an action RPG of epic
proportions. You take on the role of Joshua, a Shadowrunner out to
discover who murdered his brother.
Along the way you get into
street brawls, deadly gunfights, run the Matrix, slip into and out of
the MegaCorps, explore the wild wilderness and deal with every low-life
mage and high-tech cyber Street Samurai in Seattle.
Shadowrun
was based on the FASA RPG of the same name, and while real-time,
modeled every rule from the paper system, from character stats to
experience to combat to weapons and equipment.
The game used an
overhead view for physical combat, and a third person "POV" view when
on Matrix runs. It allowed two other characters to join your party,
temporarily of "for life", however short that was...
