Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: grahamdrew grahamdrew@*********.com
Subject: Shadowrun: Assasination
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 04:00:30 -0500
Someone said the reason the game was being scrapped was because someone
else was creating a game like it, right? Is it possible that the game
that's bumping off Shadowrun: Assasination is System Shock 2, or has
that subject already been covered? I think I recall someone saying it
had something in common with Thief, and I noticed on Looking Glass' page
that they just got a while bunch of developers from Thief now that it's
in production. Am I totally off track or what?
Message no. 2
From: Bob Tockley zzdeden@*******.com.au
Subject: Shadowrun: Assasination
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:49:32 +1000
At 04:00 AM 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Someone said the reason the game was being scrapped was because someone
>else was creating a game like it, right? Is it possible that the game
>that's bumping off Shadowrun: Assasination is System Shock 2, or has
>that subject already been covered? I think I recall someone saying it
>had something in common with Thief, and I noticed on Looking Glass' page
>that they just got a while bunch of developers from Thief now that it's
>in production. Am I totally off track or what?

A few things about Shadowrun Assassin:
- Shadowrun: Assassin has, for all intents and purposes, been shelved until
further notice by the now Microsoft-owned FASA Interactive.
- The development of System Shock 2 and similar games has had no bearing on
this situation.
- Shadowrun: Assassin was to be, from all descriptions, a Tomb
Raider-meets-Diablo-style game with 'something more to it.'

(>) ARKHAM
"See... it's like this.... er... we were... um.... just sorta...kinda...
borrowing... yeah, borrowing the helicopter... we were going to return
it... honestly"

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Shadowrun: Assasination, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!