System Shock® 2 (1999)

@tannaa0 damn, that is rough. Never thought of it that way tbh. For me, the most scarry game ever. Was really shittin my pants, gave me so much pain to play it, that I eventually quit.

System Shock 2 gets often called "one of the greatest games of all time". Now, a lot of games seem to get this title today, including GTA IV, Big Rigs and Family Fun Party: §0 Great Games. So the question is: Did System Shock 2 deserve this title and does it still hold up? Of course it does you simpleton! System Shock 2 was awesome, is awesome and will always be awesome. GO!PLAY!IT!

What else can I say - simply the best FPS ever! Greatest story, greatest game atmosphere, great graphics and game mechanics, some moments sends player to real shock. Must be played in dark room with headphones ;)

...surpassed only by SS1 (at least for me)

I can't tell you how many times I've played this game. I can't tell you how many different ways I've started and how many different evolutions my character has undergone. I can't tell you how many times a lumbering zombie has made me leap out of my skin, or how on many sleepless nights my trips to the toilet were peppered with hallucinations every time I went to open a door or a floorboard creaked. I can't tell you how many times (or how badly) my spine tingled on hearing some of the creepier voice-work, or just how badly my stomach lurched as the floor (sometimes literally) dropped out from under me. But I can tell you that this game was a bargain at full price and that it's even more of one now - even for me, though I still have the original disc, box and manual. This game took scope, ambition, depth of character, a living and breathing (and dying and decaying) world and put them all together and just made it all work. Full voice-acting for all characters and logs, models which remain creepy even while terribly aged (creepier than the much prettier rebuild, even), music just dripping with atmosphere and, let us never forget, those god. damned. psychic. monkeys. Buy it. Install it. Play it. Then play it again. And if it's not 2am and you aren't hallucinating, you're not doing it right.