Shadowrun 2050 Review

I'm back after a little delay. I set out to do a series of articles about the experience of reading through Shadowrun 2050. You can check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them.

The "Let's Read" was going along well enough but I eventually hit a snag.  I realized somewhere during the writing of Part 3 that I was diving into a regular review on the book.  This wasn't something I intended to do but couldn't help myself.  I could no longer discuss each part on it's own because there just wasn't a whole lot of material to comment on.

So I decided to scrap Part 3 and shoot straight with a complete rundown.  So let's power down the rose-tinted cyber eyes and take a look at Shadowrun 2050 for what it is.

[Let's Read] Shadowrun 2050 : Part 2

Today we are going to dive into the first chapter in Shadowrun 2050.  If you missed Part 1 be sure to check it out first.

The first chapter is appropriately named The Knife at Your Throat.  This is a rundown of the various facets of 2050 life that might end up getting you killed.  An excellent place to begin.  The chapter is broken up into three parts which each break down their own little slice of Shadowrunner life.  All of this is written within the framework of a file that has been posted on the infamous Shadowland.  That means Shadowtalk.  Shadowtalk has always been the most entertaining part of any Shadowrun fiction for me and I am glad to see it return in just the way I remember it.

For those of you unfamiliar, this means that the text is broken up with commentary written by some of the famous characters from the fiction.  For those of you that remember this well, you won’t be disappointed.  Captain Chaos, Fast Jack, Argent, Hachetman and even Big D himself all comment somewhere within the first chapter.

Ok.  Let’s dive in.