All the Shadowrun games are awesome, and this one is no different.

The sleekest yet slowest of the trilogy games with a lot more reading than Dragonfall had. Unless you’re hooked on the Shadowrun universe already, you may get tired of all the exposition Hong Kong has. It’s to the point I would recommend Dragonfall over Hong Kong for new players, which balanced story and gameplay better I say.

Every time I finished a mission, I took it upon myself to chat with my team who have enough brand new dialogue enough to wind around a short book. The option’s cool, but a little tiring given I want to see all they have to say, so half my session would be playing and the other reading in the safeboat.

The game’s presentation made big strides over Dragonfall with cutscenes, Matrix changes, and more evocative locations like the Walled City. The characters are life-like too. Although I did not like is0bel and Gobbet at the start, I did grow to care for them which I think makes good writing that you can make readers “turn a new leaf” on characters.

So in conclusion, if you loved Dragonfall or Returns, this game does great for hardcore players. I think Dragonfall is better overall though with the pacing and gameplay to exposition dumps Hong Kong does.

If you don’t do what I did and read every optional inch of dialogue after dozens of missions, yeah it’s still great. I also learned that incredulously, Harebrained Schemes lost the rights to Shadowrun! Big mistake by the publisher, Paradox, because these devs made works of art and I love the turn-based RPG gameplay they made here.

nice cyberpunk game

Great game and fantastic writing. I usually am the type that skips big paragraphs of text when they come, but I didn't in this game. in fact I explored the vast majority of dialogue options to their conclusion even with NPCs.

The bonus campaign really wrapped up the story well. Made it feel like much more of a complete ending.

Great game

Harebrained dropped two of the best CRPG's of the time before anyone else came back around and then dropped off the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ face of the Earth