Posted on: April 9, 2020

davidbalparda

Spiele: 192 Rezensionen: 34

The most polished Shadowrun game

This title presents the most well-rounded Shadowrun Returns system and loads of character traits, items, spells and upgrades. The matrix also feels a little better too, although the matrix mini games are kind of unecessary in my opinion. The Extended Hong Kong campaign ensures loads of hours of fun gameplay, even though the story is not the masterpiece that Dragonfall was. You'll also enjoy the great and long custom campaigns The Caldecot Caper and Calfree in Chains. GOG users can get them from Nexusmods. This title has all the huge content from the trilogy available for use in the campaign editor and better-looking ork models (although you can't use the old outfits on them), so you have loads of resources to create your own Shadowrun solo campaign if you're feeling creative.

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Posted on: December 18, 2015

kiebor

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Spiele: 148 Rezensionen: 1

One for the collection

As a child of the 80s, teen of the 90s, I grew up with the best turn based RPG of all, the original Fallout franchise. This game (and its predecessors) fit nicely into the hole left behind. Aside from a high volume of exposition and some 2 dimensional characters (Wu, in particular), the dialogue is fair and well written; the combat is frequent enough to keep the game fluid, but not always necessary (there are ocassions where you have the option to talk yourself out). There are several improvements over earlier entries to the franchise too: the leveling screens have been trimmed down and organized in a more friendly way to name one, and the player is given less hand-holding in terms of finding the best gear. My only nit, and the reason why I marked this game down from a full 5, is the lack of humor and dynamic elements. Fallout out had crazy random events, all of which offered a wink or a nod to a sci-fi film or novel; characters interaction had options that offered real affect on the game play and story progression--not the case here. Still a good game regardless, certainly one for the collection.

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Posted on: July 20, 2025

Cosimomonari

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Spiele: 239 Rezensionen: 28

Good game (only) for RPGs' fans

6 hours in game and I have more or less a good idea of what's like. It has all the elements that can make a good (or even great) rpg, but they're not properly mixed and developed. You never feel the environments - cities, buildings, everything - are alive. It's like someone scattered some people in various places and they're there to fill a place. Nothing more. You unlock the possibility to interact to most of characters or places only AFTER you do some things or some missions. Why's that? It's against all logic (and against all past similar rpg). It's like the game doesn't want you to lose time. But... exploring and losing time is one of the best things of RPGs. Like the environment missions are too much guided. It's a blind following the golden arrow ignoring whatever is around you. You never have the impression that you, player, are effectively doing anything (and, moreover, I've seen no map... It is me or there's no really no map?) Combat: interesting but you never feel you have, as a player, a real control on what's happening. It's thought as a tactical combat, but you never use tactics or strategies to win: only improvise and wish in luck (like... when a vital shot at 89% accuracy misses, there is something wrong). You can't even deploy your team, when you have the chance to take the enemy by surprise. So... the surprise attack IS NOT a surprise attack. What the hell?!? Companions are good and well characterized, with good backstories, but the interactions are frankly poor if we compare them to great rpgs without open world such as BG 1-2, Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect. Story is just... meh. Again, is well thought - and the solid and unusual worldbuilding help to capture your attention at the beginning - but it has not the strength to stick you at the screen until 2 a.m. Some inconsistencies in the plot and in the way characters interact doesn't help to immerse you in what's happening. In the end: it has many good things, and for an rpg fan they're enough, but they doesn't fit very well and are miles away from the masterpieces of the genre.

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Posted on: October 5, 2015

DanSandvig

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Spiele: 209 Rezensionen: 2

Not quite Dragonfall but...

... still pushes the right buttons and has more going for it than Returns. Like other people I found the plot and characters didn't grab me to the same extent. That being said, the quality of the writing itself and the Shadowrun setting still held the experience together for me, and the little tweaks to the gameplay and mechanics worked well. The one thing that has disappointed me about all three games - and I guess is even more noticeable here for having "Hong Kong" as the subtitle - is HBS are still yet to manage to make it feel like you're actually *in* the city where it's set, any more than you got a sense of being in Berlin or Seattle for the previous games. I appreciate that to truly achieve that they would need a lot more in the way of money and staff, but I think even something like a map screen during transitions showing the city and where you're headed would give a bit of the illusion without costing crazy money. Either that or HBS just need to hold all of Rockstar hostage until GTA: Neo-Tokyo becomes a thing.

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Posted on: August 20, 2021

PeterCanessa

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 35

Pinch Of Salt Required

Linear, isometric, turn-based combat RPG. This and the previous two in the series were free giveaways and well worth the price. Given the engine limitations, however, they are probably not worth more than a few pounds. I played this immediately after the first two, and found it tedious and dull, plus I didn't enjoy the changed 'matrix' (hacking) mechanics. HOWEVER; this being the third game in a row set in the same universe it's entirely possible that I'd just had enough Shadowrunning for one week. Had I taken a break before playing this I might have felt a lot better about it. Keeping that in mind, I found this episode even more linear and constrained than the first two, plus the scripted 'surprises' were not so surprising when you've seen two other almost-identical games. Good, fun and different enough from other types of CRPG to be interesting, but constrained enough not to merit searching-out or full price.

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