System Shock

I love SS2, completed many times. I've never played first part, but watched few gameplays. This remake maybe is perfect for people who has played original, but for me it is not. Music is non-existant in comparision with original and audio logs are rather poorly played. You cant jump higher than 50 cm, and cant grab any ledge, any chair is an obstacle high as as a mountain. Yo cant unload and recycle weapons (?). AI of enemies is as about at level of Wolfenstein 3D. Whole game looks like from era of first XBOX, when devs has learnt about using 1st gen shaders - everything is so glossy and shiny, that it gives you headache. Especiallly VR levels and puzzles. I dont mind old mechanics used here, but come on. This should be made using System Shock 2 mechanics and feeling. I've reached 2nd level only and really have enough.

This game makes you backtrack a lot. Be ready to drag back and forth in the same corridors for hours. I'm 18 hours in the game and have given up at the executive level. Finishing the groves was a chore. Now I have to fix a relay modulator and after spending an hour looking for the one broken modulator, I just can't play anymore. Stay away, it's not worth it.

The game uses the problematic Unreal 4 engine, badly configured and without editable ini files that would allow the players to remedy some of the problems - worst of them being audio stuttering and hiccups on some configurations that make the game unplayable even on powerful configurations if you are unlucky. Refunded.

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The game very closely sticks to the original, 1994 game, so much, that it's essentially a remaster instead a remake, with a few QoL updates here and there. Even the Unreal engine is using somewhat pixelated textures to have the original aestetics. Having said that, you might as well just play the original game, with it's clunky combat, tedious inventory management, awful level design, and whatnot. They've kept almost everything from the original game, which is good if you want an almost perfect recreation of the 30 years old game, but bad if you want to play a decent game today. I was waiting for this, but it's a big disappointment.