Well, I found out last Saturday that I was accepted into the beta program for the game Shadowrun. I was away from home, and away from my xbox so it was a few days before I was able to try it out. After waiting for a few hours as I downloaded the 800MB game followed by the 1GB patch, I was able to run all the training missions and play a few matches over Xbox Live.
I don’t know exactly how much I’m allowed to talk about at this point but from the game website you can see that there are some very unique and rather cool abilities in this game. One of the worst things about playing a game like Rainbow Six over Live was the fact that in a survival game there would always be someone camping. I think camping is the most boring thing in the world and people who do it either have an unhealthy compulsion to win, like to be bored, or feel like they need the upperhand. Anyway, if you’ve looked at the site you’ll know that it won’t be easy to camp.
As your game progresses you can acquire technology and magic that will help you not only find campers but also completely bypass their ambush. If their not using similar technology to look out for you, you could get the drop on them and completely annihilate them.
I’m not going to say anything more about this because I’m sure I’m not supposed to go into gameplay and what not. Especially since they are still working on bug fixes and the like. But I do believe that this looks to be one of the best first person shooters ever and is definitely a blast to play. I’m sure it will look amazing once they finish polishing the graphics, too.