Its a solid action shooter that speaks to the 15 year old boy within me. I would not call it the best, but it is still rather good. Nice variety of weapons, good audio, visuals are ok for the time. Kinda neat to blow limbs off. Would earn a 4 star if it were not for the jumping puzzle for that one scene. You will know it when it comes.
For background, I loved the original SNES game, and I actually play the pen and paper game from time to time. I own the steam version of the game. To me, this game seemed very ridged without any wiggle room, just straight plowing through the story till it was done. There were very few places where interesting solutions could be used, and even less was available for side missions. What it did well was the combat system, feeling very similar to the newest x-com game. All combat is tactical turn based, with cover and whatnot thrown in. As far as the story itself, its linear aspect hurts the flavour of the setting. What I mean by that is, to me, shadowrun needs a more open organic world where you can explore, and do the investigating yourself without having anyone spoon feed you any answers. Sure there may have been a fair amount of backtracking, but there was also a fair amount of places to just break into and make off with all their stuff, which is completely missing from this game. YMMV, I was not quite sold on the leveling up, it is a different character build system then what the old games and the p&p have, so that may or may not be a turn off for you. Its ok, simple enough to get the point across. TL;DR The game lost me on atmosphere early on, and I never got over it being rather mediocre.
It is a fun little game, but far too short. The highlight of the game is the soundtrack.
