Shadowrun review – PC

Shadowrun is unique in the current games market – a multiplayer game that can be played across platforms. When you fire up Shadowrun on your PC and go into the online multiplayer game(there’s no single-player mode here), you’ll be playing alongside both other PC gamers and Xbox 360 gamers through Xbox Live. It’s a new concept – but will it work? Read what we think, and find out more about the game itself, in our Shadowrun review. You can also read the review of the game for Xbox 360 in our sister mag 360Zine – just click through from the PC review to see Shadowrun from a different perspective.
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Shadowrun review – PC
For many years now, there’s been an increasingly vicious war of words brewing between console and PC gamers over which is the superior platform. PC gamers, with their mouse and keyboard combo flaunt their precision accuracy in the face of the console collective, while console gamers reject this, claiming that it’s the skill of the player, not the control scheme, that will decide which is the mightiest platform. As the first game to allow for 360 v PC cross-platform multiplayer, Shadowrun gives you a way to finally settle the score.
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And, we’re pleased to say, the crossplatform setup actually works incredibly well. After creating your gamercard (a term that anyone who’s used the 360 will be familiar with), and signing up for a Live account, finding and joining a cross-platform multiplayer game is effortlessly easy. Although the PC’s accuracy has been compromised slightly to try and make the game a bit fairer (your reticule is huge), Shadowrun is actually a better game for it, as it makes each and every contest that much more hard fought. With no single player mode to back it up, Shadowrun is relying on its multiplayer mode to stand on its own, so it’s somewhat surprising that the selection of modes on offer is rather limited. There are only three types of game to choose from, two of which are simple capture the flag style contests. Surely someone somewhere could have spend a bit more time thinking up ways to play?

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