Then there's Shadowrun, Microsoft's first attempt at cross-platform gaming. Here's the promise: you, as a PC gamer, can take your baddest game it to all those console pansies by jumping onto Xbox Live (for PC) and dealing the pain to them. Sounds interesting in theory, but in practice - a miserable exercise in gaming futility. At first we thought we might be alone in having problems getting the game to load at all, but then we stumbled upon the five-page forum thread at
Shadowrun - Shadowrun Home, which had plenty of similar complaints, but no solutions. There's apparently no support coming from FASA Studio either, since, according to reports in their own forums, many of them are on a "mandatory break" and some team members are off to other projects. So there it sits, a sad, unanswered thread, and no hope of a patch in sight. And it's not just us and the folks in the forums - IGN, arguably the largest gaming site on the 'net can't get the thing to run. What does that tell you? (Note - they did finally get it working, and gave it a 6.8 overall)