you really felt like you were the only person on that station merely observing the effects of the carnage around you. the journal way of story telling has been done a lot of times, but i sincerely think system shock did it the best. without a guide i could not see myself beating this game especially the reactor overload part and abe's head (i was looking 30 minutes for it because i dumped it somewhere in the corner of the level.) despite this i had a great time playing this game, shodan was an amazing antagonist who watched your every step, the levels were huge and although at times painfully confusing offered a lot to see and experience.

by all means this game has not aged well, it offers next to none hand-holding and you have to make sense of the notes left by the dead researchers to figure out your next objective. i was pleasantly surprised by the amount of depth this game had to offer and gameplay variety. Combined with assorted bug-fixes and remappable controls, System Shock is now truly enhanced.I went into this game pretty much blind not expecting much from what looked like a typical boomer shooter. Gameplay was also streamlined with a toggleable mouselook mode, including more intuitive inventory and item management. The Enhanced Edition of System Shock supports resolutions up to 1024x768 (compared to the original 640x480), and a native 854x480 widescreen mode. System Shock is a First Person Shooter but it isn't your traditional run and gun game. Shaking from adrenalin and information overload, you scarcely have time to think before SHODAN unleashes yet another terror. Multi-function displays pump information to the screen, describing artifacts, warning of biohazards and radiation, analyzing targeted foes, and decrypting cyberspace messages. Creeping past armies of cyborgs and robots, you find hardware that grafts to your powersuit and neural apparatus, including infrared cyber-eyes, jump-jet boots and an arsenal of weapons. With your neural implant, you can 'jack' into cyberspace (SHODAN's realm) to steal clues to the mystery. The crew has been mutated beyond recognition to serve SHODAN, a ruthless computer that controls station operations.

An indentured hacker, you awake from a healing coma on board the space station Citadel only to find yourself in the twisted aftermath of a mutiny. In System Shock, biological engineering and automation merge in a raging storm completely out of human control.

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