System Shock: Enhanced Edition

Old games need to age good to be worth playing, this one aged like shit, it's a pain to play. The remake just did it better.

6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story average gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. System Shock Enhanced Version score is 4 of 5.

Even in the early 90s, game designers used mouselook and had integrated inventory and other controls into an intuitive UI. System Shock 1 decided to be different and make inventory browsing the ONLY function for the mouse, with combat and navigation being secondary functions. System Shock is so clunky and overburdened by its own user interface it’s unplayable to all but the most diehard retro-gamers. Just looking up and down requires RESEARCH into how to play the game. Finding the logs and playing them requires digging. Movement within your game world should not be unintuitive. Turning left or right should not be a confusing maneuver. There is an experience to be found in System Shock 1, but it’s more of an endurance test than an enjoyable game. Play System Shock 2 instead. Though it made its own mistakes, it takes the clunky interface and makes it so much more intuitive.

I have not yet played the original system shock, the unintuitive controls always got in the way. With the enhanced edition this is no longer a problem!

I found the game controls hard to operate. The look is downright pixellated. The music is monotonous and grates on my nerves. Don't care for it I am not going to waste any more time on it.