Rumor: Footage of canned Shadowrun reboot
by David Hinkle 
on Nov 4th 2009 9:45PM
Before 2007's
Shadowrun released and Microsoft subsequently
closed the doors on FASA, the studio was apparently working on
Shadowrun: The Awakening -- a game with a full single-player campaign and unique 3D gameplay engine developed in-house. Some footage (teleport past the break to give it a look-see) managed to make its way online over at
Unseen64, showing off a few environments and some character animations. As Unseen64 would tell it, the story goes: FASA brought a new art director in which, through a series of unknown events, lead to an eventual cancellation in favor of the multiplayer-driven experience that was the 2007 game.
As it stands now, Jordan Weisman managed to
snag the rights to the
Shadowrun IP (among others), so the possibility of seeing this resurface as
an actual thing isn't entirely impossible -- though Weisman is trying to let some of the negativity surrounding the brand
die down a bit before revisiting it.
[Via
StrategyInformer]
