Eventually you’ll acquire larger, heavy duty plasma canons while taking on murderous androids, cleaning units, and humanoid mutants. You’ll use a variety of melee weapons at first and soon move onto small firearms such as pistols. The design for System Shock is similar to that of Doom, but at a slower pace with more emphasis on tactics and planning. Like the target audience of the PlayStation, this was aimed at ravers, computer geeks ,and teenagers alike those who grew up on the Prodigy and Danny Boyle films. However, as I said before, System Shock is an experience for the smart gamer. System Shock is pretty much the embodiment of the 90s, where techno music, surreal visuals, and neo-punk aesthetics were all around you. (System Shock: Enhanced Edition, Night Dive Studios) Now it is up to you, our nameless hacker, to go about and restore order. SHODAN has either killed, mutated, or has turned everyone on board into a cyborg. Six months later in a healing chamber, you awaken to see things aren’t going so well with SHODAN’s new software update (I’m thinking it was Windows 10) as you discover the station is starting to look like something from Event Horizon. He is, however, given a chance for freedom in exchange for a small task: to reprogram the station’s A.I, “SHODAN.” In return, all charges are dropped and our nameless protagonist is given a neural implant. The player submerged into the role of an unnamed individual, who’s been arrested for devious hacking activities (it was all the rage back in the 90’s).
What System Shock did all those years ago and what it does today might be two different things, and its impact over the past twenty years might have lessened. It was met with critical acclaim and considered the next step in the FPS genre and in many ways became known as the thinking man’s Doom. Mostly, it’s due to the shock upon playing the game in this day and age. The original System Shock was released in 1994 - one year after the renowned Doom came out. I know, I know, cliché title for the review, but you can understand the title for a couple of reasons.
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