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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.
Honestly a really solid game, I never played the OG mind you so I can't directly compare it to that so I am looking at it more on its own merits as a game. It's generally well balanced but some of the enemies are a little too resilient for the tight resource limits IMO, particularly the ones that are effectively an oversized virus phage - they take a tremendous amount of abuse for their early placement in the game and are no slouches in damage themselves while having several other abilties that make them irritatingly evasive. It ain't perfect but its definitely above average.
The good:
Atmosphere. Fantastic, it's a shock game. Your on your own in an isolated survival SHTF scenario. The mutant enemies are eerie mockeries of human beings.
The setting is really good - the station itself is creepy and disorienting at times but once you figure out your surroundings you can navigate pretty easily. It's not so labyrinthine you get completely lost. Which is just skilled level crafting/environment design.
The puzzles are pretty simple logic puzzles - usually just completing a circuit or routing the correct ammount of energy. And there's a finite (I assume) number of bypass items to brute force them.
The bad:
Really minor personal gripes
The shotgun feels underpowered which is just a videogame sin IMO - especially if the ammo for it is going to be as rare as it is this time (System shock 2 its a pretty viable ranged weapon for most of the game given solid damage output and the fact that many enemies use them - here it often feels like a liability in that it takes up a MASSIVE chunk of inventory space).
The character audio is annoying. As in I had to mod it out because the noise just got on my nerves when you encounter poison gas, radiation, or any of the plethora of environmental hazards. Your character just launches into this really irritating gagging noise over and over. It got so annoying I looked up a mod to shut them up given how often you encounter it.
A fun remake that is actualy quire true to the original game in terms of story, map layout, and "vibe", but, it's considerably more difficult than the original or the enhanced edition. I just came off completing the Enhanced edition and this is consistently harder. There is less ammo, and the enemies hit harder and fight smarter. Cyberspace sections are longer and combat is more difficult, particularly in later levels.
I'd recommend this to anyone, though skew more toward new players with modern gaming expectations. For anyone old enough, or who already played the original game, or who enjoy old school game mechanics, I'd recommend the Enhanced Edition first (or even the original depending on your patience), then this. All are worth playing, for different reasons.
I love this game, but for someone who never played original from 1994, could be hard to find out where to go, what to do and what not. As a fan of an original game i can say that people that work on this remake did a realy realy great job, thank you so much!
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