Many of System Shock's features are de rigueur in today's sci-fi shooters. In fact, it paved the way for modern action RPG titles to rise. Now that just having finished SS1 REMAKE, you have no excuse to get it and fire it up (well, if that is your sort of thing!).To say the 1994 video game System Shock is an incredible game is an understatement. clearly in the top 5 of the best games ever made. So maybe I never played SS1 back in the day but I did played multiple times SYSTEM SHOCK 2, which is one of the best PC game ever made.

Once I got news that SYSTEM SHOCK was being remade in a KICKSTARTER campaign, oh boy was I excited! It took years to develop and it had some issues, namely the engine switch, but all I can say is. and MUCHO LATER, the BIOSHOCK spiritual successors. maybe too advanced for its time until SYSTEM SHOCK 2, DEUS EX and DEUS EX: INVISIBLE WAR released years later. even though the gameplay mechanics were quite advanced.

I barely played the original SYSTEM SHOCK ever since my PC gaming introduction back in 1999 and from what I did played, I didn't enjoyed it much. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?' -SHODAN 'Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. I'm really looking forward to more from this developer. Shodan's cold contempt, delivered in Max Headroomesque glitches and stutters by a superb voice actor is the best part of an already fantastic game. Shodan, the antagonist AI draws the obvious comparisons to GLaDOS, but apart from being artificial and homicidal, that's where the similarities end. I can see where the subsequent Prey gets a lot of its DNA, but this is an entirely different story with an entirely different vibe. I *loved* Half-Life - if you actually *enjoy* getting lost and having to learn where you're going and why you're going there - quids in. The exploration is really old-school, and suited me down to the ground. I didn't play the original release so I don't have a yardstick, but the gunplay is fun. Tension is balanced with dark and occasionally twisted humor. Impeccable world-building pulls the player into it's unique, compelling aesthetic from the start.

This has been one of the most thrilling and immersive narrative gameplay experiences I've ever had.

System shock remake on hold