this game is booring and bland. everyone and everything looks the same. Played this for one afternoon and returned it and came home and played RB:6 multiplayer.... stay away!
Only resemblance this seems to have to Shadowrun is it's the future and there some magic and some fantasy races thrown in.
They seem to have forgotten the Ork metarace. If you use magic, you tend not to be able to use cyberware (if they have it in the game). Elves are no weaker technologically than any other race, they just tend to have prettier stuff.
Shadowrun was always basically about a group of mercenaries living outside the law, off the grid, with fake ID, doing dirty jobs for the Corporations against their rival corporations. Data steals, Personnel snatches, etc. The standard archetypes for players were the Street Samurai (your combat monster), the Street Mage or Shaman (Your spell flinger), a Decker (the computer hacker), and a Rigger (The driver/drone operator). There are other types, but those were the basics.
Shadowrun has been around since about 1989. How they could ignore the almost 20 years of backstory, for some mindless multiplayer pvp crapfest is beyond me.
The basic premise behind the roleplaying game is: 2011 Magic comes back to the world. People start expressing genetic code that only works in the presense of magic...they change into elves, dwarves, trolls, and orcs. With magic back, the Native American Indians find theiur old rituals work. They kick the US's butts by causing a bunch of volcanoes to blow. In the end there's a Treaty that gives the western half of the US back to the Indians. US and Canada join and Form UCAS. later the south splits to form the Confederated states (CAS). Meanwhile Corporations get themselves declaired autnomous from nationalities. So they have their own rules and guards/armies. They don't answer to the laws of the country they are in. Commit a crime on corporate land and you're subject to that corporations laws.
Seattle is a lone bastion of UCAS surrounded by Native American Nations (NAN). The state of Oregon becomes Tir Tairngire, an elven nation. The Free State of California tries to run itself but has to deal with Japanese interests and mexico, which is now Atlan and run by a corp, Aztechnology.
Since the rpg came out, with an in game start date of 2050, many things have happened, corporate wars, corps splintering, a dragon became president, haley's comet returned. I think the current in game date is 2062 or something.
Sorry if this bored you, but I love the game. There's just soo much material they could have pulled from to make a truely exciting game. Think a blend of Blade Runner and Robocop with some magic and fantasy races thrown in.
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