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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.
I completed the game recently and it could have been better if it was not so frustrating at certain points in the story.
Some examples that stood out among the others:
- finding and replacing the broken power relay 428 (the relays are not at all numbered and good luck finding the one that is broken in 4 labyrinths on the Maintenance level)
- cyberspace fights are annoying to me, with the green critters being very hard to hit and the screen being filled with particles it is hard to stay oriented
- the final boss fight is in cyberspace with 4 stages, no healing or saving in-between with an unskippable monologue sequence at the start
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.
Gameplay needed a bit of an upgrade, for example many codes will be left on monitors that dont stand out or give you an idea they are needed for a code. They also put these codes on destroyable monitors so that if you break one you cannot progress.
There is no direction on what actions need to be taken to complete each level leading to hours and hours of searching empty levels for maybe that one bit of info thats missing.
They also like to put instant deaths in random spots just to kill you, for example i bought an item out of a vending machine and the game decided to give me a live grenade instead as a joke.
Enemies all have instant lock on and hit scan weapons, even weapons that are thrown are actually hitscan so you cannot dodge them.
Its just too bad they wasted such a good idea with 30 year old game ideas that use old school mechanics to keep you playing but people today dont want to waste hours looking at empty hallways with no directions on what do.
Why did someone decide you couldn't rebind the weapon keys ? Why can't I rebind the mouse wheel to a sane up for next weapon instead of the backasswards way it is now ? These are simple things that could easily be fixed but won't be...Refunded...
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