Your best value would be Rainbow Six:Vegas. Shadowrun is fun (I have both RS:V and SR), but it doesn't have anywhere near the same depth as RS:V. Basically you play capture the flag in SR and that's about it. RS:V has lots of gameplay modes like death match, team death match (called team sharpshooter), assassination (kill a VIP on opponent's team), survival (last man standing), Co-op missions, etc.
In SR there is no character development, no single player story, no unlockable weapons, armor, gadgets, etc. In RS:V you earn points to unlock different armor, weapons, modifications to your appearance, etc. You actually appear unique in RS:V when online. In SR, you look the same as everyone else that chose the same player race. It's odd since SR would be the perfect game to have character development since it's origin was an RPG. Once you've played SR for a while and you get a bit tired of it, there's nothing to entice you to keep playing, whereas RS:V has so much more to try to earn over time.
So SR is fun, but RS:V is fun and has much more depth. I found the arcadey jump-around nature of SR made it more difficult for my style of gameplay as RS:V is much more tactical, realistic (one or two shots can kill) style. But you might prefer the frantic pace of SR, it depends on your taste.
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