If you liked the original, you should absolutely consider this version. The price might seem a bit high at first, but if you’re a true fan, it’s worth every cent. The game now supports OpenAL, which adds a subtle echo effect that really improves immersion and atmosphere. Textures and meshes, including weapons, have been upgraded tastefully without changing the soul of the original. Facial animations are now included, and the UI has been slightly reworked to feel more polished while staying true to the classic style. Every single drawing seems to have been recreated as vector art, which makes them look much sharper and cleaner. The cutscenes have been fully re-rendered in HD using proper methods, not cheap AI upscaling. There’s also a bonus section filled with behind-the-scenes content, interviews, original sketches, and more. Mod support is still available, and the coding has been improved for modern systems. It runs very well on Linux through Proton. In short, this is the version that long-time fans of System Shock 2 have been waiting for. It respects the original while making it feel fresh again.
The game is now released, it didn't say early-access, I am not your game tester, I bought it with my money so I could play it and have a good time, and I didn't get that. Why do you guys keep doing this and not respecting your customers and fans? This is unacceptable. You keep lying and always being vague when you are answering Q&A and I am so sick of all of this. These games cost a lot for some people, like me. There are no binoculars, no night vision, no a-life 2.0 that was promised and on last minute it was removed on the store description, you can look for yourself on the wayback machine for proof, they did this on purpose, they knew it wasn't in the game and yet decided to ship it because $$$ is important, while the people's feelings who paid for the game aren't. We don't care for your apologies, you knew! The game lacks items, it is buggy, there's memory leaks, I play for a bit and then I get like 5 fps, I have to go back to the title screen and go reload my last save game. The English dub is awful, everyone is British in Chernobyl and it breaks the immersion. Animals and creatures can't be skinned, guns break easily, the time cycle is way too short, you cannot lay down on your stomach like in the originals to aim better. The enemies have zero intelligence, they can see you through walls, in the bushes, and in the dark. They spawn constantly behind your back. When I go exploring the textures on the buildings are flickering non stop, it only shows that no one even tested this game, or maybe they did, but thought people would accept this, since now is the standard to release broken games. Oh and each time you boot the game you have to wait for the shaders to compile. The game is 160 GB! It runs on UE5 which means that if the game gets updates we might have those HUGE downloads. I am deeply disappointed, sad, and angry. I played for two hours, it has potential, but the devs decided to rush it. I will give them a few days until I ask for a refund.
I was thinking of buying this game but since GOG isn't following on their mission I cannot recommend it. You really should be ashamed of yourself...
That is all. It shows a protection at fault at startup and I couldn't even play a bit.
The medkits are once again censored, instead of pills we now have a green cross instead of the color red, that bothers me a lot and it shouldn't be like this. The wolfenstein 3D secret level is censored, too. You aren't allowed to change the files because it is against their EULA, so if you have the original WAD of Doom 2 and you switch it with the one that's censored it will be just like playing the original Doom, but you might lose access to this port. It worked at first but when I played multiplayer it reset everything. They've said that at any given moment, they can decide to stop supporting this port, meaning they will shut it down and you won't be able to access the games because at all times you need to be connected to the Bethesda servers. From the way I look at it, this ain't DRM free, not sure why it's on GOG. If there's a mod that you enjoy they can remove it due to them being a bunch of snowflakes and can't take a joke. This is what happened with the mod Thatcher's Techbase. We must protect the modern audience on a mature game! There is no mouselook support, the UI is terrible and confusing, the moment that I launched the game it crashed until I switched it to Directx11. When there's too many sounds happening all at the same time the engine freaks out. For example, let's say there's a bunch of enemies shooting, there's doors opening and shutting, monsters being killed, and so on, and then you use your chaingun, guess what?You won't be able to hear your gunshots until the area is clear. Some of the tracks are missing and I ended up with one that sounded like crap, like it was coming out from a Gameboy. Just get yourself GZDoom or chocolate Doom, it will be way better.
