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Typical introductory splash screen. Feel sorrow in the fact that FASA Corporation and DATA EAST are not in business anymore...
Okay, if you are not familiar with the Shadowrun universe, it is set typically between 60-70 years from when the current date is. The established time line is a very important thing. To be honest, this screen is a pretty good introduction to the game, albeit it when I was 13 and first played this game it didn't make a bit of sense to me, either.
The game is obviously set in Seattle. The little plumes of fire in the background are a nice touch. The music is very building, too.
No name entry screen. Just start your game, or resume an old one. Maybe if we just sit on this screen for awhile...
Well... This doesn't look too good...
Okay, let me get this straight... The game's little preview of the game is a cutscene of four Shadowrunners gunning down a lone guy in a black trenchcoat... Then a fox comes along and right when you think it is going to eat your corpse, it turns into a woman (still with the fox ears, though). Then, said woman heals him, and scurries off. At this point in time, two guys in white lab coats grab the guy.
Oh yeah, I can already tell this game is going to make a load of sense.
At any rate, let's get this party started...
Hey, it's those two assholes again! I sense a continuity to the preview, but have yet to grasp what the shit is going on. If I start as a dead guy, this could be cool. Who doesn't want to be a zombie, after all?
They say some gang geeked him? They only missed them by 5 seconds! They should've heard the gunshots, those oblivious bastards! They had barely cleared the intersection when these geniuses showed up.
Did you try to revive him, smartasses? This is 2050, not 1850, you know. The outlook for the future appears grim...
To borrow from Tom Servo, the terribly scripted conversation of Sam and The Other Morgue Guy makes from gripping game-opening cinema.
What the hell? How does your brain feel burnt? What does that even feel like? Wait a second... What does that even mean!?
By the way, aren't you like, chock full of bullet holes or something?
Hey, I got a little red bar in the upper right corner and I can move around now! I guess the game has officially started.
Okay, so my plan as a newly awakened zombie is to find out as many clues as to what the hell is going on -- and eat these morticians' delicious brains.
Okay, so my name is J. Armitage, and I live at Warehouse No. 5? I sure hope this game provides me with some context to this soon...
Scalpels are sharp, and you never know when one could come in handy. Too bad this one is probably a bit rusty... Also, it's nice to see that the floor of the morgue has apparently been made out of alpha channel.
Slap patch is a fancy word for "heals 10 hit points". I'm not quite sure why they'd bother keeping this in a fridge, though? But these two aren't exactly what I'd call a brain trust, either...
What a bunch of pussies. Before I even get a chance to eat their delicious brains, they run and lock themselves in the closet. For working around the dead, they sure have an irrational fear of them waking up. I mean, even in today's world it is not completely unheard of for someone to "wake up" after being considered dead.
I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Guess I better head that way... Though this is sort of an interesting viewing perspective for walking in a hallway.
This is just great... I get outside and within 5 seconds somebody is already giving me shit.
This day isn't going to end well.
Amateurs, obviously. The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
In the future the world is apparently overrun by punk bitches with fake tans and spiked collars who watch other people shot while they stand idly by. Also, those are some creepily beady little eyes.
No kidding? You'd think I'd have gotten the hint when they shot me twenty times. It's a shame I only have the keywords "Firearms" and "Hitmen" because what I'd really like to do is tell this guy to get bent.
Oh well, I may as well follow that guy... It makes sense, right?
And by the way, my own character's up close and personal avatar does not appear very flattering.
Oh boy, a dark alley... Nothing bad has ever happened in one of these...
Uh-oh, I hear a gunshot and now somebody speaking to me.
"Funny you should mention that, I was just leaving..."
Well, I can see that the punk guy from earlier just got deep sixed. And lo and behold his character had a gun!
Unfortunately this giant troll thing is shooting at me and it seems like he has an even larger gun.
Well, it obviously didn't do its previous owner any good, but it's better than nothing...
Ironically, this is one of the few bodies you can actually find an item on in the entire game... Unlike the actual P&P game, where many unruly runners seem to be tempted to take every item that has not been bolted down...
You put on the +1 Leather Jacket and enjoy the 1 point of armor it gives you. But hey, at least it is stylish... Right?
Look at all the items I have now. Apparently I already had a matchbox in my inventory that says it's from a club called "Matchsticks"... That place sure sounds like one winner of a club...
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