System Shock

Yeah this is a good remake, given I never got a chance to really have nostalgia for the first one given I haven't played it and didn't have any emotional attachments to the franchise. This is my first immersive sim game and so far I am having a blast running around in circles figuring out where I should go. I need to actually plan out and pay attention to what I need and want to do. Playing it on normal difficulty, but things like puzzles, the combat against opponents, and even the urgency in beating the game before the Antagonist multiple plans are completed and you loss the run. As of right now, I have been running 14 running around the areas solving puzzles/getting lost and it feels good that things progress when you do, and depending on you play style, can play as a gun nut, future soilder with pew pew laser sword, or speed demon crackhead with a pvc pipe. the greatest feature I love is the items that you wish you bring with you but can't carry with you and decide to throw it in a level... it will still be there if you back track. I feel like it is a good experience trying something that can be played at a slow pace at however direction you want, and if you wish to test yourself, speed run the game so fast that A.I. dommy mommy starts virtually sweating at how fast you crushed every plan to get to her. As for achievments... well I have played 14 hours, and I haven't gotten an achievement thus far by progressing th story, so you really have to look for the achievments for the dopamine rush. Recommend if you wish for a single player, slow paced game that will test your ability to deal with puzzles, paying attention to objectives, and understand your human and can still be overwhelmed easily if you let the enemy get the upper hand. Get it on sale as I did, and perhaps get it if you really want to try out this immersive sim.

The godfather that started it all has been brought into the 21st century with love and a stunning visual facelift. Everything about this remake is both faithful to the original and exactly what SS needed to get it past the clunk and discouraging vistiges of being an MS-DOS game. While it was torture for Kickstarter backers to wait years for this to be complete, goodness was it worth the wait. From beginning to end, I loved it, especially after the 1.2 update that improved certain quality of life features and revamped the SHODAN boss battle. The origina SS gave us some of the greatest gaming franchises of all time: Thief, Deus Ex, BioShock, Metro 2033, and Dishonored. Its own sequel, System Shock 2, took everything great about SS and expanded on it in what is still probably the most fine-grained inventory-management immersive sim of all time. And all of these games coalesced together into that epic love letter to SS, Prey (2017) and its dlc Mooncrash. If you love any of these games, you must play the original, and the remake is now the definitive way to play System Shock. While every other developer was racing to clone Doom, Warren Specter and his team dared to imagine all the ingenuity of RPG's but in the context of a Doom-like 3-D world. Unlike Doom, SS built a space-station aiming at realism, functionality, and exploration. The levels aren't just labyrinthine like Doom maps; they're onion-esque, slowly unpeeling as your avatar moves up and down the space station. It's slow and dangerous, but enormously satisfying once you figure out a set of tasks to work on, and then complete them. There is no hand-holding in SS; it's just pure immersion, story-telling, and matching wits with one of the greatest video game antagonists of all time -- SHODAN. Highest recommendation.

I hope game will be ported to other platforms and become Open-Source one day so Shodan is free :-) :-) :-) By the way you folks need to also play original SS1 and SS2. It. Is. A. True. History. :-)

dont think i ever played a remake with this amout of polish. there are few, and i mean few. things that could have been different but it get overshadowet by everything else the game has going for it. dont buy on sale. they deserve every penny

I love older system shock 1. Remake is a fantastic. Graphic, gameplay, soung, music everythin greming me legend in new polished coat. I used 50 percent render in option. P.S. For new players who like clear objectives listed in menus and labeled maps with navigation, SS1 can be confusing. It's a bit of an old game style. You learn what to do in hints and calls, also codes. But don't give up. This is a fascinating experience of one of the best games in the world.