Shadowrun Returns

I purchased this from Steam, and for Android. I liked playing though the initial story. The game is also not drastically changed so a second play though is not worth it for me. This game isn't bad, I did appreciate the Fallout style turn based attacks this became very fun and anticipated in the play though.

Just not good enough if you really love RPG's. This game is lacking on pretty much all fronts. There is just nothing to do in it and the gameplay is way to liniar for a RPG. If you like having lots of options, and a deep combat system, and enjoy costomising your characters and team with lots of items, then this game is not for you. But if you're looking for a shallow RPG, then this is a nice looking kiddypool to dip your toes into.

So here are some pro's and con's to sum it all up: PRO's: - Good enough graphics for some beautiful scenes - Fun and diverse customization - Interesting world/meta-world CON's: - As with too many games today, the customization really doesn't matter that much gameplay wise, you're gonna beat any foe anyway - Too easy - Too short - Very repetitive music - Shallow story with disappointing wrap up - Dialogue choices doesn't matter much All in all a fun, but short experience. Worthwhile, but let's hope for the community to make something more interesting out of this one

Be warned, there are no pre-made characters, no tutorial level and no separate manual. The manual is in game, so is no use for character creation. If you want a seperate manual you have to search the wiki dedicated to this game for a button that will download the contents of the wiki in pdf format. In other words, you are thrown in at the deep-end.

Shadow run was a bit obscure a couple of decades ago but it was unique in the idea of merging fantasy and scifi, whats not to like?. Seeing how both fantasy and sci-fi have matured bring the perfect opportunity to bring back this gem, but sadly this game fail horribly at this. As a game it feels more like an interactive storybook (and a pretty one too), the thing is way to linear, picked up a decker because you love messing up security and corporate networks, cool, wait till theres a chance for you to do it in the storyline, and don't expect anything new, its just like every other battle you play in the game. I have to say the graphics are beautiful and fit to the mood of the game but game play is a complete let down. Back in the days SR on the genesis allowed you to roam and take different jobs, got to infiltrate to a building? cool, if you're a samurai you're slashing your way in, if you're a caster you're using invisibility and other tricks, decker? no sweat, just hack a terminal and wreck the cameras and security, you'll find none of this in SRR, its basically: follow the story, pick your dialogues and get into tactical fights, and hope you don't loose any because you CAN'T SAVE, the thing decides where its good for you to make a checkpoint for you to start on if you fail. As sad as it seems I'd play my old genesis SR before this any day, personally i got this played about 4-5 hours of it and quitted, doubt I'll get back to it ever.