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= Xbox 360: Description of Shadowrun game types =

Article ID: 937611

Article Last Modified on 5/17/2007

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 * Microsoft Shadowrun (Xbox)
 * Microsoft XBox 360 Video Game System
 * Microsoft Shadowrun (PC)
 * Microsoft Xbox

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SUMMARY
This article describes Shadowrun game types.



MORE INFORMATION
Shadowrun is played over a series of rounds and during the first 30 seconds of each round, you can buy additional weapons, magic and tech by spending the money that you earn during play. You earn money for winning rounds and for actions during game play. This includes killing opponents, carrying the artifact, and using certain abilities to help your team. Players on the losing team also earn some money between rounds.

The winning team is the first team to win six rounds. Each round is four minutes with the possibility of a one-minute overtime. How to win a round is determined by the game type. Shadowrun has three game types available.

Raid

The Raid game type requires the attacking team to capture a magical artifact and deliver it to the extraction area. The defending team must stop the attackers from escaping with the artifact.

The artifact always starts in the same location and only the attackers can carry it. If it is dropped and not picked back up, it will eventually return to its initial location. With one side on offense and the other on defense, Raid is the most tactical game type, frequently feeling like a high speed chess match with magic and machine guns.

Extraction

In Extraction, the artifact starts in the center of the map. Both teams can pick up the artifact. Each team wants to bring the artifact to a separate extraction area on the opposite side of the map from where they start.

Extraction is more fast paced and frantic than raid. Both sides are after the same object so combat happens faster and is faster paced when it does occur.

Attrition

In both Raid and Extraction, a team can win by eliminating the other team. In attrition that is the only way to win. There is no artifact to capture and control. Instead, there is only the destruction of the enemy team. It is very simple. The last team standing wins.

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