The player assumes the role of a shadowrunner who receives a pre-recorded message from his or her old shadowrunner accomplice, Sam Watts, which was triggered by a dead man's switch embedded within his body. Further campaigns can be downloaded from external websites. The game ships with a campaign called "Dead Man's Switch". Depending on how much power the shaman imparts on them and how long they have been summoned, these spirits have a chance to break free and become hostile or flee. Those with shaman abilities can summon additional allied spirits to the field, either through consumable items or special points where spirits linger. Riggers can equip drones like weapons and use their action points to manually control them, attacking enemies or healing allies. Ammunition is unlimited but ranged weapons need to be reloaded.
Weapons have different attacks, depending on the weapon and characters' skills. Action points are used in activities such as moving, firing a weapon, reloading, or using a spell or item.Įach character carries up to three weapons and can switch between them at no cost.
They can gain or lose action points based on abilities, spells or items. Characters start with a base of two action points per turn and later gain a third point. Each action has a cost in terms of action points. Players control the actions of their team followed by the enemies taking theirs. For example, a decker may turn off elevators to stop enemy reinforcements or turn them on to progress further.Ĭombat is turn based and includes tactical elements, such as taking cover. The decker's avatar engages in a minigame where they fight ICs and enemy deckers while trying to gather data and hack devices. Deckers can enter a virtual reality world known as the Matrix at specific points. Mages can see magical ley lines, which enhance their abilities, and shamans summon spirits in designated places. For instance, pushing aside objects or hacking terminals to find hidden rooms, gaining access to new routes to their main objective or finding items to use or sell.
The player can interact with the environment in some ways. The player can converse with various characters different statistics and skills give new dialogue options, affect quest progression, or give different rewards. While gameplay is mostly linear, some exploration is possible while completing objectives. Some non-player-characters are required during certain missions. Besides the player character, up to three other characters can be hired during missions. If the player chose an archetype, it controls what skills and equipment the character starts with, but any character can gain any skill (e.g., deckers can spend karma to gain a shaman's summoning abilities). Īs the story progresses, the player is given character points, known as "karma", to spend on improving their characters. The game lacks traditional character classes, but players may optionally play as one of six pregenerated archetypes: street samurai, cybernetically-enhanced warriors who focus on weapon mastery the spell-casting mages deckers, who focus primarily on computer hacking shamans, who summon spirits to assist them in battle riggers, who control mechanical drones and physical adepts, who are magically-enhanced monks. There are five races to choose from: humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, and trolls. The player can customize their character's gender and appearance. The game features isometric graphics, similar to 1993's Shadowrun for the SNES Character generation
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