System Shock® 2 (1999)

the graphic may be low for our days... but this was a masterpiece in its own time.... the plot... the atmosphere.... to hear the abominations telling he gonna find you ... while youre cowering in the corner of a room hoping for him to go away.... you wont have ammo to doomlike your way thru... truly one of the best games of old... im just glad i played it when was released years ago

So much great things can be said about System Shock 2. For one, of all the "horror" games I've played System Shock 2 is the only, turely scary game that has actually scared me; From the audio logs to the limited color scheme, it's truely horrifying. Second, the soundtrack; a mix of ambient and electro to perfectly complement the cyberpunk-horror setting, William Gibson would be proud. Third and finally, the gameplay; a true example of player freedom. you can choose to be either a gun expert, tech geek, or a cyber-sorcerer with telekinetic powers. add the wide range of enemies and you've got yourself a masterpiece !

Amazing game, even for 2017 standards (plotwise and atmosphericwise). I had never played this game until now and had a blast. The way the tension builds throughout the game and the logs that let you have insights about what happened before the character woke up (like in bioshock) makes this a wonderfully executed game.

A wave of nostalgia came over me while playing this game again, it was a masterpiece back in 1999 and is still amazing today.

This is one of my all time favorites. They just got almost everything perfectly right. I played this like 3 times and there are still some secrets in the game which I haven't solved. The combat is very hard, the story is perfect and the only thing I can mention is the horrible looking models and the respawn system (monsters respawn on levels). It is a shame that Ken Levine copy-pasted the story of System Shock 2 into Bioshock because this game had all the original ideas and plot twists. I think this is where the e-mail messages / voice recordings idea was invented for the first time. The character improvement system is unrivaled. I am yet to see another game which executes this first-person-horror-rpg-adventure genre so well.