Shadowrun is going to be released for Xbox 360

So earlier today, I saw Microsoft press conferance, they showed a trailer for a game which might be fun to play but didn't looked graphicly good at all. At the end of the trailer they announced the name as, Shadowrun. "Where have I heard that name before?", I thougth for a split-second before my neural center horribly relized what was going on.

Shadowrun [for Xbox 360] is a team-based fantasy CTF FPS, featuring magic and technology. Four different races to choose from, Human, Elf, Dwarf, Troll, all with their own abilities and weaknesses. You'll be able to enhance yourself with things like cybernetic implants to boost your speed, or with "enhanced vision", that allows you to see through walls.

Judging from what I've seen from it, it's round based like Counter-Strike, where you each round can buy yourself new equipment, like the glider pictured above, or the "enhanced vision" pictured below.

So how do the fans of the previous games and the RPG react to this kind of path?

"All the high hopes and expectations the incredibly large Shadowrun community all around the world had set into an even remotely adequate video game adaptation of the brilliant Pen & Paper RPG have not only been destroyed but simply annihilated onto utter desolation."

And how does the devs respond to this outcry from disappointed fans?

"Now take a look at where we started with Shadowrun.

1. there are magic spells
2. and shamanic spirit magic
3. and cybertech
4. and metahumans like elves, and dwarves and such
5. and astral space
6. and the Matrix
7. and megacorporations with the powers of sovereign nations
8. and a dystopian future where America has fractured into around a dozen countries
9. oh, and a Native American uprising
10. and 15+ years of sourcebooks
11. and there’s the individual storylines in the novels
12. and the console games

So what should we do? Satisfy fans of the paper and pencil game? The novels? The SNES and Genesis games? It wasn’t a long debate, really. We decided to restart the Shadowrun timeline and grow the fiction over a series of games, allowing the world we loved to unfold over time."

This response is just madness... how can you even respond in this manner towards the people who will eventually buy the game they are making?

This is horrible, because I was hoping for a adoption of the license to create a dystopian fantasy cyberpunk game with Blade Runner influences, something along the lines with Deus Ex but with magic. I'm still looking forward to this game, because I'm a multiplayer FPS fan, but I wouldn't call this Shadowrun.

Check out their website and read the forums for more information.

Shadowrun for Xbox 360
Shadowrun E3 Trailer
Shadowrunners of all countries, unite!
What did you do to my game world, dude?