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...
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.
This game aged really bad. Not only the controls and graphics are outdated but also the level design. Most of enemies don't make any sound so the only way to detect them is whenever you receive damage. And the fact that after you killed a certain number the star spawning again making it a very tedious experience.The maps are a big series of halls that are hard to distigush so navegate them is a hell (and you have to do a lot of backtracking between levels).
You don't get feedback about objectives and goals so if you don't find the log explaining what you got to do then you are lost.
I'm sure this game was very important at its time and inspired a lot of grate games but for me turn to be unplayebal. Not recomended.
System Shock is in an odd place. I want to call it overrated because of the praise its fans give it, but it occupies such cult status to begin with that I can't really call it overrated.
I'm a big fan of many 90s shooters. This game came out around the same time as Doom; for that era, I think the graphics and engine look excellent. Walking around the space station feels like being in one of the sets of Star Trek: TNG or DS9.
There's a cool intro cutscene with promising plot and intriguing setting, and the techno music is catchy.
However, Doom, this game is not. In fact it has more in common with the Ultima style than Doom.
Part of Doom's success is the intuitive simplicity of controls and ease of movement. SS is utterly unwieldy and cumbersome in its heavily dated control scheme that just has not aged well at all.
Basic things like walking, leaning, crouching are a stupendous chore. The game is just not my cup of tea. I got it on sale years ago but could never really get into it past the first few rooms.
There's a reason why the sequel is usually better remembered as the seminal inspiration for many future (and better) series.
I can appreciate the inklings of the sci-fi/horror mashup, and I know that at the time, this game would've been well-regarded for the experiments it tried. But it just does not hold up well imo, and I say that as someone who loves most of the big 90s FPS hits.
I don't think it was necessarily a bad game in its day, but it's not something easy to get into nowadays at all.
I bought this game because it's marked as "Available on Luna" in GOG, but it's not available there.
Only the new, much more expensive remake is available there.
Lost money, because I cannot start it without having a PC.
This game is good for nostalgia but has not really been enhanced. The controls are still early 90s and makes the game play at a slow pace. They really should have modded the interface to allow for WSAD + mouse control. This game feels like SW Dark Forces. Realms of the Haunting at least allowed for some modding of the control interface. This game needs a remake .. but there is SS2 which is better in my opinion.
I loved this game in 90' and I have come back to it after all this years. specialy to EE with pleasure.
But the enthusiasm was short. After last update we are unable to load any saves.
I tried all solutions which I was able to find on the net. They are not working.
It's a pity
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