You won't be getting any split-screen multiplayer action in Shadowrun, with a program manager from FASA Studio today confirming the feature was taken out so the game would be out on time. Posting in the official Shadowrun
forums, "Kimona", who is the Lead Program Manager at FASA had the following to say:
We wanted to do it and had a good deal of the work done for it already. But there was a lot of UI and testing work remaining. We decided to focus on making what we have even more polished and clean.Following his post are a lot of angry comments from disappointed gamers, presumably ones not on Xbox Live.