Shadowrun Online - Renamed & New Release Date

Shadowrun Online renamed to Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown, Launch Date announced; statement from Jan Wagner, co-founder of Cliffhanger Productions

Co-op, tactical turn-based team combat in the Shadowrun universe coming to PC/MAC(Steam)/Linux(Steam) on April 28 2015

Vienna/AUSTRIA, 3rd of March 2015 - After recently announcing their partnership, Nordic Games and Cliffhanger Productions have now fixed an April 28th 2015 launch date for their tactical turn-based RPG Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown.

The new name has been in the making for some time and was decided on together with the Shadowrun community and Kickstarter Backers.

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Enter the world of Shadowrun - the Pen and Paper cyberpunk RPG classic and lead your team of runners into deadly mission or face them together with your friends in tactical co-op. Set in the dystopian near future of our world, where magic has awakened.

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"We have had repeated comments and complaints from people who are expecting our game to be a full-scale, open world MMO in the style of World of Warcraft. Now we have made it (hopefully) clear from the beginning that this is not the case with our limited budget, but a lot of folks don’t really read past the name tag, assume a game with “online” in the title should be a massive open world game and then go berserk on us for not delivering what they envisioned."

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Some of you might recall that in January we asked about the name Shadowrun Online or a possible different name. Back then we proposed Shadowrun 2076, but after reading through all your feedback and suggestions (thank you again for your great ideas!) and some more internal discussions, we headed your call and came up with a new one a good number of people seemed to like. So from this day forward, Shadowrun Online will be known as – drumroll, please! – Shadowrun Chronicles!

We think the new title does away with a couple of associations people had with “Online” that didn’t apply to our game and which led to some disappointed buyers and backers. “Chronicles” expresses our goal to continue to tell stories and release new content evolving from the collective actions of our players over time. As many of you have already surmised, the first chapter will be called Boston Lockdown, making the full title of our launch version Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown.

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Archangel said:

Everything I read on the game said it is lacking in everything. SRR has combat and story at least 2x better

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