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Shadowrun: Shadows in Focus: City by Shadow: San Francisco Metroplex $7.99
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Shadowrun: Shadows in Focus: City by Shadow: San Francisco Metroplex
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
by David B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/08/2016 16:23:35

I wanted to like this, but I am a native of the SF Bay Area and it is painfully obvious that the writers are not, nor did they bother to look at a map. The other issue is that they specify certain items, and then fail to define them. They also use names that are already defined, and then I can only assume push them past their currently defined boundaries to areas that aren't traditionally included. They don't really add any new gear, since the new pistol is speced in the new hard targets book, unless you want police NPC's for the SFPD. The only good thing is that they brought forward the previous history for the area, however that history was never of decent quality and they could and should have performed cleanup and minor changes and corrections to it to make it actually make more sense.

Examples of what I am talking about.

  • They claim San Francisco has now managed to encompass the entire bay area, yet the only districts they list are the southern half of the bay area.
  • They talk about the caldecott tunnel and Oakland, failing to mention that only half of the tunnel is in Oakland, and it has no impact on access to the valley.
  • They fail to mention San Jose at all, I assume it is included in the 'Silicon Valley District' but it's never mentioned, despite that being the location of the airport.
  • They mention districts and fail to define their borders leaving huge grey areas (the bay area is a contiguous urban area).
  • They appear to have expanded named locations like Oakland, without actually telling us what they encompass.
  • Most of the plot for the Japanese invasion doesn't really make any sense and they did nothing to clean it up.
  • They have a map on the last page that lists interstates and state roads, and some of those state roads are city streets with stop lights (SR-82 is El Camino Real a city street, compared to I-101 a 8 lane highway).
  • That map also fails to define any disctrict borders, is blurry, and isn't that good on topography either (which explains the freeway layouts).

I would really love to go into deeper specifics, and offer my personal corrections and commentary, but this is suppossed to be a review, not a dissection.



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