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Overall Rank: 4666
Average Rating: 3/5
# of Ratings: 1
US Release Date: 07/25/2013
Platform: PC (Steam)
Genres: Role Playing (RPG) (Tactical RPG)
ESRB Rating: RP
Developer: Harebrained Schemes
Publisher: Harebrained Schemes
Synopsis: The cyberpunk classic returns: in 2054, magic, man and machine fight side by side as technological advances have awoken ancient powers and creatures. In this world a man searches for the killer of his friend, Sam - and is soon embroiled in a plot involving missing organs, a biker gang and it all leads to the power behind one of the Megacorps that runs the world.
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Before Returning, One Must Go Somewhere
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/16/2019
In 1989, tabletop gaming was both at a high point and on the precipice. While TSR, the company founded by Dungeons & Dragons co-creator, Gary Gygax, was in the midst of financial woes that would ultimately lead to its doom, it was also producing a lot of comparably weird stuff, at least when compared side-by-side with the relatively sedate and stable High Fantasy and historical material it had produced for a decade. Likewise, mid-‘80s media from both the West and Japan had cemented the concept of ‘cyberpunk’ into the nerdist sphere of awareness.
It is within this environment that a number of non-TSR gaming startups popped into existence. Once of these, FASA, was started by Jordan Weisman and Ross Babcock, who, together with Weisman’s father’s expertise in the publishing …
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