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System Shock: Enhanced Edition

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System Shock: Enhanced Edition
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System Shock: Enhanced Edition also includes the classic 32-bit version of the game. You're a renowned hacker, the most notorious cyberspace thief in the corporate world. Caught during a risky break-in, you become indentured to Diego, a greedy Trioptium exec who bankrolls a rare cyberjack impla...
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4.7/5

( 139 Reviews )

4.7

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1994, Looking Glass Studios, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
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System Shock: Enhanced Edition also includes the classic 32-bit version of the game.

You're a renowned hacker, the most notorious cyberspace thief in the corporate world. Caught during a risky break-in, you become indentured to Diego, a greedy Trioptium exec who bankrolls a rare cyberjack implant operation. After six months in a healing coma, you awaken to the twisted aftermath of a terrible disaster. Where are the surgeons? Why is the station in such disrepair? Slowly, the chilling realization that something is very wrong creeps over you.
Once a prime corporate research facility, Citadel now teems with mindless cyborgs, robots and terribly mutated beings, all programmed to serve SHODAN, a ruthless A.I. There's scarcely time to think before it unleashes the first terror...

Exactly twenty one years after its first release, System Shock is back!
The Enhanced Edition adds a modern touch to this true classic gem, without taking anything from its unmistakable atmosphere.
See for yourself that the game that has been called the benchmark for intelligent first-person gaming, has lost nothing of its ability to keep you on the edge of your seat.

System Shock: Enhanced Edition features:
- Higher resolution support: up to 1024x768, and 854x480 widescreen mode.
- Mouselook support added.
- Remappable keys with three profiles to choose from: original controls, custom controls, and lefthanded controls.
- Some original game bugs fixed.
  • Rocket through cyberspace to steal information, hack security and grapple with watchdog defense programs enslaved to a maniacal computer.
  • Survive battle after battle against armies of killer cyborgs and deadly robots as you collect hardware attachments, life-sustaining patches and deadly weapons to combat mindless mutants.
  • Test your intelligence by solving puzzles, rewiring access panels and outwitting SHODAN in its own cyber-realm.
  • Enjoy the vastly improved controls and graphics of the Enhanced Edition - or keep your experience as close to the original as possible with the Classic version.
Goodies
artworks soundtrack (MIDI) TV commercial soundtrack (MP3) maps soundtrack (FLAC) hintbook strategy guide manual (English) manual (German) manual (French) Enhanced Edition quick start guide
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Release date:
{{'1994-09-22T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Animated Blood and Gore, Animated Violence)

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Posted on: August 5, 2020

brendoong

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Games: 11 Reviews: 1

Absolute classic

kind of a hidden jem with alot of personality, controls take some getting use to though


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Posted on: October 11, 2024

Danlovar

Games: 34 Reviews: 14

Tip: choose to play without the rapier

... because the infamous 50% screen radius only serves its purpose with the pipe and the rapier, and if you press 2 and you see the whole screen before you, at least from the moment you reach Maintenance, if you did not drop the stungun you set it to max and stun the three or four rays you will see yourself saying hello to them while you come and go through the game, after that, choosing how to kill every single enemy seems to be... an interesting experience, and not only because of the 100% screen. Nothing more to say, but this: the game is supposedly not an imm-sim, but it has not also its elements (with an awful leaning physics that forces you to play slow), and behind a lot of the graphics and pixels, it is an experiment on an imm-sim, and if you are sometimes in the mood, the fact that the press buttons are very easy to miss should make you kind of smile, and you will learn that this game has a lot of magic that the remake does not. My keybinds: WASD. Q and E for leaning, X for negate leaning, Ctrl for crouch, V for lie down (jump and you will stand up) and Shift for run. R for reload. F for mouse freelook / screen movement, useful also for cyberspace (drill / pulser). Tab for fast pick up. Thank god for this option. G grenades list and H for attack with the one you choose. Y for patch list and U for apply patch. B for boots. My cyberspace keys are SZXC, A and D. You can cheat if you do not know how to do the wire puzzles, save, apply a logic probe, see the result, then reload.


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Posted on: September 26, 2015

doomdoom11

Games: 87 Reviews: 28

Outdated but decent

Beware of the 5 star reviews; they are from people who grew up with these games. I only tried this game recently, and the interface is very clunky and hard to get used to for someone who has no prior knowledge of this game. I know the game is dated, but the controls and the interface negatively affected my enjoyment of the game. If you can look past that, you may find something of value. 3/5


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Posted on: August 28, 2020

refewz

Verified owner

Games: 240 Reviews: 3

use a strategy guide

The controls and graphics may take some getting used to, but that's not even my issue with this game. First off, the music will give you a headache, it is awful. Ok, I actually enjoyed playing this game for a while after I got used to the controls. The setting is very cool and the main antagonist is evil and creepy in a nice, dystopian, sci-fi kinda way. But I've reached the point in the game where I have to go back to each of the 6 first floors and find one specific room among a maze of other rooms to put together a 6 digit code to progress, so this is where I tap out. I know lots of retro gamers like to talk about the dumbing down of modern games, and I feel that too, but playing this game is such a slog with these obscure objectives. Not to mention, if you are not saving before each corner you turn and searching every nook and cranny for new gear, then you will not get very far. The cyberspace minigame is even worse than the music. I guess it's a product of its time, and it was probably influential, but I would not recommend this game to anyone but the most dedicated of oldschooll gamers. I enjoy other 90s games, but this game has become extremely frustrating to me and it has so many flaws that just suck any enjoyment out of it for me.


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Posted on: September 17, 2016

SDX

Games: 199 Reviews: 8

The 1995

Let mister Warren explain the game: https://youtu.be/b0_INOQcYVc?t=34s


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