System Shock® 2 (1999)

A real masterpiece. Shut up and play.

no more words needed :-) Thank you gog !!!

This game was a huge disappointment. I played the Thief games, and really enjoyed them, and I know that the director of Deus Ex worked for a short time at Looking Glass, and he was clearly inspired by this game when making Deus Ex, so I expected that this would be a different take on the same kind of gameplay. What I did not expect is that, unlike Deus Ex, this game is garbage. The things that all the five-star reviews tell you about are not untrue: there is limited ammunition, you do traverse cramped corridors and shoot sPOokY enemies. The thing is, I don't really care about the story or the setting as much as the core gameplay, and this is the part that the other reviews fail to mention: what you actually do. What is it, you ask? You run around corridors looking for things. Playing on Hard difficulty, I spent most of the game playing almost exclusively with melee, and never had any trouble with ammunition or health. I would say that this was a very easy game. And the stealth system from Thief does not seem to have been carried over at all; I had as much luck sneaking up behind enemies as I did simply sprinting up to them from behind. There are no alternate paths to take to go around enemies, and the enemies continuously respawn, so you can never "clear out" an area. With enemy encounters out of the way, all that's left is the "core" of the gameplay, which is simply running around looking for things. "Find four vials and four regulators to put them into," "Find three SIM cards and three computers to put them into," "Find four art terminals with codes and a transmitter use the code on." It never ends. And I'm all for exploration (King's Field is possibly my favourite game series), but this is some of the most boring gaming I've ever experienced. The "story" is just audio logs talking about how everything went bad, which you should not care about (see: the ending) Overall, play Deus Ex. This game attempts the same kind of gameplay and fails horribly, so skip it.

i bought this game but i don't know how to run it on my macbook. if someone can help me set this up i will buy them a game on here or steam. just message me or something. later hackers.

Nuff said!