System Shock

Nightdive has knocked it out of the park again. This is almost a beat-for-beat remake of the original System Shock. I am truly amazed at the incredible attention to detail of how the original game played. Personally, I believe this is the definitive way to experience System Shock. If you have never experienced this game, get this version. The only reason to not pick this up is if you are one of the neckbeard boomer "purists" who think anything new or updated is evil and lacks creativity.

You know in your head, you picture 90's gfx, and you think man those days were awesome. But then you fire up original doom and it's soo grainy you can't even see? This game IS the rose colored glass image in your head. Perfect blend of retro and new. GFX are great, gameplay is fun, and story, while only in drips and drabs is solid. I love this game. Just buy it already.

This is fun, looks good, sounds good, plays good. Wanted something different from my usual, and this is the correct balance of shooty shooty and what was that.

I remember playing System Shock back in college, with one session over a holiday weekend standing out in my mind. The game was so well done at the time that even playing as I normally do, for the story and not the combat, I was still jumped out of my skin when the phone rang. Now all these years later, with my skin nicely reattached, I have played the remake. The remake is excellently done and very faithful to the original, despite the many changes made to the game, which were made even more obvious by a side-by-side playthrough with the original's Enhanced Edition. I stated earlier that I play for the story and not the fights. This means I was playing on the lowest combat and cyberspace difficulties. I had the puzzles on hard and the story setting on normal, as the ticking timer would have added nothing but frustration to the game. In the original, my settings guaranteed that there were no fights to speak of. Enemies fell with one hit from any weapon, and they never attacked first, cyberspace was a 3D maze without obvious walls, and the puzzles were nice and challenging without being annoying. In the remake, I died early and often, got kicked out of cyberspace dozen of times on EVERY level, but found the puzzles quite enjoyable, when I lived long enough to actually work on them. The redesign of the levels was at once familiar and confusing. The addition of a second cyberjack to the Medical level at left me wondering how I was going to complete the game. The big fight on Level 5 nearly saw my playthrough end prematurely, as did the nightmare of Beta Grove which left me desperately looking for a map so I could see if it was even possible to finish. The incredibly sharp increase in difficulty was far more of a shock than the rest of the remake. The audio, which helped make the original game, one of my all-time favorites, was once again top notch. The new audio logs were very well done, and SHODAN continued to be a menacing adversary.....

System goat is a amazing system adventure with a lot of shit to do and a lot of respawning enemies to kill, the most boring thing is to see the amzing blinking lights and the keychain dingling on the screen