The closest thing you might find to Shadowrun in a game is Restricted Area it uses a lot of the same terminology and was developed in Germany, such a huge following there. Course anyone who has played Shadowrun knows that it was a conglomeration of Cyberpunk 2020, Blade Runner and William Gibson's "Neuromancer," fantastic book I might add (all of his books are). So there are references made that smack of these wonderful works of cyberpunk, "chummer" comes to mind specifically, so do the names of the bioware and cyberware..., as well as the Megacorps. The only thing it is missing is magic and even then they call it psionics, never much cared for magic in SR anyway, something wrong with a room clearing powerbolt...
I am liking the game so far, plays much like Diablo and looks sweet as all else, for a game of that type anyway. It gets my SR fix anyway when I am unable to play the PnP. It is widely available here in the US, so go to your local "mega-mart" and try it out for yourself..., oh, and you're gonna want the patch, trust me.
Honest to god I am not this dorky usually, but I thought I would share my discovery with you guys, at least to hold us over until we hopefully see a REAL SR release. BTW, SR 4th edition is coming soon, wonder how they will further mess up the classic.
/Actually beat the Genesis version..., SO MANY HOURS, deaths and restarts later..., ooph, might dust it off and go at it again soon...
