[Lawtan]

Oh, I was looking for improvement. Rurik is sort of half baked right now...

Anywho, I've been thinking (I should stop there before I hurt myself, but I won't XD
Shadowrun vs what I know of NeoEsch.
Shadowrun:

Has "magical" races due to magic getting into the genetics of newborns during the time of the Awakening, along with a slew of people becoming wizards, and Dragons awakening from the mountains in which they slept.

Is set in mid-21st century - we're 2/5 of the way there. (NeoEsch seems more "mid-future" than "near-future")

I do not know, but a lot more seemed to orient around the politics and technical skills of the parties in the books (computer hacking, corporate wars, presidential assassinations, healing members)

Also, I think the "magic/aura-verse" of NeoEsch is different. If you've read the Bartimaeus trilogy, it works much more on that method - there is another series of "worlds" from which you call magic/can sense people.

I am still new to NeoEsch, but those may be differences between the worlds. Shadowrun seems simultaneously more "hard sci-fi" - the Vampires/zombies are genetic mutations/cancers, if I recall, and more "modern"

*disclaimer: I usually don't know what I am talking about.