For those that care; here is a review of the FPS:

Review

Well this has been covered in another thread already but hey seeing as you went to the trouble to post it again and twice at that I'll reflect what another poster said in the other thread.

This reviewer also seems to be of the thought that FASA is still a company.

Not only is the game massively wrong in 90% of it concepts the reviewer doesn't even know which company owns the pen & paper version of the game let alone who's publishing it jeez.

If you simply turned off your RPG SR knowledge off and went in and played the SR FPS, it is quite nice actually, not that much different from many other FPS out there but not bad nonetheless. I think the reviewer does know who owns the PnP version but didn't bother to elaborate because those who know he didn't need to tell, those who didn't won't need to know. The rules for the SR FPS is different from that of the SR RPG, but conceptually the basic magic + future tech concept of SR stays the same.

If you look at it as a whole new ballgame, that's when you actually get to enjoy it, instead of looking at where it differs from the PnP version.

Well my problem is he mentions the P-n-P game and if those who don't know were to think well I like this shooter lets see what reviews it has.

They go looking see this review and go oh hey it was a P-n-P game lets look up FASA so they type in as would seem obvious www.fasa.com and then they get a web page for Financial Aid.

This leads them to think the game is dead and we lose a potenial new player.

As to the game I could care less about it one way or the other as I don't like first person shooters remembering button mashing seaquences or using 90 macros to play a game just is not fun to me.

I play role-playing games which yes are more adventure games that role-playing and yes you can run right through and win but you miss the story which I think makes it a role-playing game.

I do rarely play a good simulation game Civ useally or a stratagy game war/starcraft, warlords.

though if it's not an RPG then it is usealy a puzzle game that requires one to think before they act.

Very rarely I'll play a spelling game but man my spelling sucks so I don't do that too much lol.

Pretty much any game would be pretty awesome if done right.

All they had to do with the FPS was set it in the world. Make it a "matrix game" featuring Karl Kombatmage with ads for NERPS throughout and it wouldn't matter how inaccurate it is. The average joe in Shadowrun knows as much about the limitations of magic as the RL game devs do.

I also cried out at how much they deviated from the source material when I first saw this game. But I've played the demo for it, and, regardless of how far it breaks from continuity, it is a very fun game. I might even buy it (which is high praise coming from me).

BTW, FASA Interactive IS still a company. It was the video game and VR development arm of the original FASA responsible for the MechWarrior PC games. When FASA started to crumble, they sold the company to Microsoft. It's the last vestige of the original FASA left.

The Abstruse One