System Shock 2 is one of my favorite game. But SS1 was always a problem for me because of out-of-date graphics. Even Enhanced Edition on GOG is still difficult to play. And now with the remake released I finally got a chance to touch that classic game! I’ve read some people mentioning the System Shock remake in a negative way because developers did little changes comparing with original. But for me it is a huge advantage that gives a chance to feel that old good game atmosphere with just better graphics! The level design stays almost the same as it was. And that’s great! I am enjoying discover Citadel Station! The game gives real feeling of isolation while wandering an abandoned space station levels. Unforgivable Atmosphere! Visual style of the game is perfectly balancing between reminding about it’s old school roots and modern requirements. I like pixel textures style that increase the feeling of playing the classic. And what must be mentioned the game optimization is the best I’ve seen among the recent releases!!! Shooting is not ideal. Could be a better impact, but can’t call it bad also. Puzzles are simple as far as you understood the way of solving. What I don’t really like is too many loot on the levels! So at some point I just stopped to pick it up. Would be great to have an option to reduce the amount of loot with increasing the game difficult level. The game have things to improve. That’s why my 5 start it is 4 + extra 1, very emotional star for the game experience I enjoy so much!!! Just love it despite mentioned issues! And many thanks to the developer team. They did a grate job. Wish they do SS2 remake with exactly the same way as they did this one!
I’ve been waiting for Atlantis even before Ragnarok was released and disappointed me with poor visuals of new items, pants which became part of the boots instead of being part of the cloth and humans as enemies ruined TQ spirit completely for me. Still hope they will do a remaster of Ragnarok once to fix it. So in this way Atlantis correspond perfectly to the stile and ideas of TQ original and Immortal Throne add-on so no more killing humans. Maybe Atlantis is not as epic as originals and the locations of city Atlantis itself looks like an antique post apocalypse what makes me feel rather like a stalker discovering abandoned places than epic hero and titan slayer but I enjoyed it. All the locations of the chapter are big enough, well made and have their own architecture and visual stile what doesn’t let to get bored. The only disadvantage it’s the to much red color in Africa. There are a lot of new monsters. Some of them can be meet at specific locations only. There are also some already known by previous chapters monsters. Unfortunately no skeletons, I like them falling apart after being smashed! There are as well some monsters bosses and monsters heroes. Quests are good enough, but there are could be more. I guess the gameplay could be longer with more quests and it could be a bit more epic but it still makes you feel that is old good Titan Quest. So Atlantis is really well done add-on, maybe not as perfect as original but it worth to play. Can’t say much about balance as was playing with already charged 72 level character but new hunter high-level skills look nice. And for the developers I would suggest to add more quests and improve some aspects of the game to make it an ideal spiritual successor of the original.
