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System Shock is the fully fledged remake of the ground breaking original from 1994, combining cult gameplay with all-new HD visuals, updated controls, an overhauled interface and all-new sounds & music; it even has the original voice actor of SHODAN, o...
System Shock is the fully fledged remake of the ground breaking original from 1994, combining cult gameplay with all-new HD visuals, updated controls, an overhauled interface and all-new sounds & music; it even has the original voice actor of SHODAN, one of gaming’s most iconic villains. Witness the rebirth of one of the greatest and most influential games ever created.
SHE IS SELF-AWARE AND AWARE OF YOU
Meet SHODAN. The psychotic AI has taken control of Citadel Station and turned the crew into an army of cyborgs and mutants; She now plans to do the same to Earth. You must explore and battle your way through the depths of a space station gone to hell. Stop SHODAN and avert humanity’s destruction.
HER TERMINATION IS OUR SALVATION
FEATURES
- Fight to death in the depths of space
- Face off against the forces of a rogue AI gone mad
- Improve your skills and adapt to take on your foes
- Discover a non-linear story unfolding at your own pace
- Jack into cyberspace to hack the system and open other routes
- Innovative art style combines retro future design with modern technology
Become fully immersed: shoot, brawl, crawl, climb, leap and think your way through Citadel Station.
Has an option to disable motion blur, but no option to disable depth of field, chromatic aberration, or bloom. All locked to a option in post processing that you cant completely turn off. As someone who gets headaches from looking at objects that are out of focus, this is a non starter for me.
and not really more than that. Yeah, i understand the original game has been released way earlier. Anyway... at some point i was wishing to have chosen the "low" difficulty in at least one of the 4 available game mechanics, since you can set the difficulty for "Combat", "Puzzles", "Mission" & "Cyber" all separately.
On normal settings, you'll have no mission marker telling you where to go next, ammo will be rare and the most important thing: enemies will respawn. Levels do generally consist out of maze-like corridors and small rooms that do look very similar. So you'll often end up running in circles looking for the next door that can be opened with one of these key cards that you have found, while fighting off the same enemies you have killed earlier before, wasting precious ammo.
I quit after a while, because it just got tedious. If i was about to start a new attempt, i definitively would:
- set the "Mission" difficulty to "low", so that a mission marker will be available, telling you where to go next, so that you won't have to run around aimlessly.
alternatively (if you like looking for ways to advance in a level)
- set the "Combat" difficulty to "low", so that fighting off respawned enemies will be less of a chore
Other than that i enjoyed the game for the time i have played it (until the third floor). I only quit, because of the problems mentioned above. I am just not very patient with most games. Although do not expect something great here. It all pretty basic and unspectacular.
The atmosphere is there and advancing requires some tactics, i guess these are the games strongest points.
i dont no how this game has had so many good reviews in my opinion its not worth £34.99 if you have to have it then wait for it to go on sale this is another bad game from night dive i for one will not be buying anymore games from them
The art style looks disjointed and ugly, straight away. Some things are HD and other things have this 'retro' voxel look to them. It's really unappealing. The game itself is slow and boring to start out. I was hoping they'd make the gameplay better than the original, but it's not much better; which is tremendously sad. If there should have been one purpose to this remake, it should have been that aspect. I guess I'll have to stick to engine remakes/re-implementations here on out if this is the kind of product that gets released after years and years of waiting for proper improvements to an antiquated game.
This game has no wide screen support.
If you set the graphics to 1980x1080 and windowed the game pays no attension, even if you restart the game and ensure all settings are correct.
Can't find the .ini file so can't manually set it.
And no, it's not my PC
PC:
Rez: 5905x1080
Nvidia 3090
32 gig ram
Game installed on NvMe
Playing Classic Shell Shock instead, that works fine.
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