System Shock

Good game! Good game! Good game!

MASTERPIECE. AMUSEMENT GRANTED

this game doesnt try to be better than it is. its dark, digital and hyper scifi. i never played the og, but ive had great fun with the remake. ahead of its time

It's a good game, not for the weak of stomach though lol. I really wanted to play it as a piece of gaming history. Definitely holds up today, as I understand the remake is mostly unchanged as far as gameplay and level layout. Some people call it the first immersive sim (at least that's what I remember), and I don't think that's entirely accurate but I do think that genre took a lot of inspiration from it and expanded the toolset. The modernized controls are pretty intuitive, but I don't have the original to compare to. I just have heard many complain that the controls are really hard in the original. The gunplay is pretty nice, don't know how that compares, but yeah, guns have nice sounds, great effects and good control and feedback. You're often wanting to conserve bullets, so each shot is considered and you don't really get to use the guns as much as you might like. I got a ton of use out of the spark pistol taser thing since it only uses energy and energy is technically infinite. Aaaanyways, even though System Shock is an FPS, it has almost as much puzzling as fighting - which is interesting. So if you like shooting, scrounging resources, and puzzles, you'll like System Shock!

Replayed this twice already, would likely play it again like how I do on occasion with SS2