Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown is part of a recent trend of needlessly subtitling games, a trend that includes The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Ark: Survivor Evolved, and the ultimate subtitled game, Warhammer: The End Times -- Vermintide, in which even the subtitle is subtitled....
The Friday Awesomely Live Co-Op crew has never claimed to know anything. The other editors here at Co-Optimus are smart, witty, and have their act together. F.A.L.C.O., on the other hand, are just three average gamer dads who enjoy unwinding after a week of working for the man. So last week, when we jumped into Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown, we were surprised to find that all the missions we played were only two player!
A few weeks back, Shadowrun Chronicles, the MMO-style Shadowrun game we checked out sometime back, received some new content just in time for Halloween: "Infected." The new add-on included more guns, skills, missions, and enemies as you searched for a cure to a deadly virus affecting the citizens of Boston. It's arrival, however, was not without a couple of hiccups.
Today Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown heads out of its early access on Steam and into the masses. Last night Locke and I decided to check out the turn based tactical RPG set in the Shadowrun universe and see what it has to offer. Very few games in this genre have attempted to do co-op, let alone two to four player co-op, so how does it work?
The cyberpunk world of Shadowrun is finally arriving with co-op. At one point title "Shadowrun Online", the newly renamed Shadowrun Chronicles will allow up to four players to join together online and tackle missions in this dystopian future of hacking, shamanism, and fantasy.
