System Shock: Enhanced Edition

You've played Bioshock, right? If you're interested in its grandparent progenitor, I'd assume you have. Do you remember what it felt like, the first time you killed a Big Daddy? Before you learned how to cheese them with the wrench. Do you remember the horror you felt when you ran out of electric shotgun rounds and it *still* had half its health? Do you remember studying its route and finding the ideal location to ambush it, prevailing by the skin of your teeth and exhausting half of your entire ammo reserve? System Shock is all about that same ebb and flow, in pure and perfect form. Citadel Station giveth, and SHODAN taketh away. There's never enough of anything to go around, because bullets are finite while enemy spawns are not. This particular element of design, or at least its illusion, has endured into most modern survival horror games, but what makes System Shock unique among them is how unrelentingly it pressures you to plan and execute assaults against impossible foes anyways. With the right combination of dermal patches and augmentations, you can become a god for twelve seconds; but then, you're back to being an insect again. The longer you wait, the more your finite resources bleed, so the only defense is ambitious, aggressive offense. You have to clear every objective as soon as your've scavenged the minimum arsenal to make it feasible, because that's all you're getting until you advance. It's thrilling and intimidating and so incredibly satisfying to overcome. Through the sheer hostility of the level design, it really feels like you're facing an intelligent foe in your struggle for control over the station. If you enjoyed the traces of this ethos that System Shock left in its legacy, then you *need* to play the source material.

I will never forget my experience starting up this game. After a short, cool opening, I was presented with half of my view is blocked by the UI, my ears blasted by a 8 bit techno music in full volume, after recovered from a slight concussion, I tried controlling the character. All looks fine, until I tried opening a door, which for some reason won't open even though i clicked it or press "E" (because, you know it's kinda the universal key for interacting with stuff). Top it off, the game crash after opening the door (After googling, it's actually recommend to change the renderer to Vulkan) I'm not a stranger to oldies games or even games with "a-s-s" control. But my god this game can be very intimidating with it's first introduction that it actually took me three attempts to finally got comfortable wit the controls. The "Enhanced" in the title doesn't reflect at all for this product. After that though, the game actually plays fine. Sure that to attack you use your right click. Sure when reloading you actually need to choose your "weapon" tab first, then click the reload button. Sure that when you want to use your item you need to press "E" first to unlock your "freelook" so you can choose the "item" tab, then double click the item. Sure that...ah well you get the point. Still, with all of that funky controls, the game is quite playable after you get used to it, albeit there will still be hiccup and misclick here and there. In defense of the game though, this game released in 1994 and seeing how many system that was introduced first in this game, I can see why it's crowned as one of the most influental game in the videogame world. There is only one thing that almost made me stopped playing this game though, and that is the backtracking. On itself it's already bad but with the map can be a labyrinth at times it can feel very hellish experience of dead ends and frustation. So is it a recommend? Well I think I can only recommend this only if you want to appreciate how far game design has progressed. Maybe kinda like watching Citizen Kane to appreciate how it revolutionzied movies (Note I haven't watch Citizen Kane lol). If you are just only interested because of the lore, I highly recommend the "System Shock Remake", it has more sane game design but still suprisingly faithful to the remake. Lastly, shout out to the 1994 increased sale revenue for speakers because of the radiation SFX.

我对这个游戏很感兴趣啊，可惜没有中文，我很多都看不懂

really surprised after playing the remake twice about what exactly is different and... well... better than the remake. The Interface gets shat on a lot for being hard to penetrate for most people but, after playing, its clear that's the point, the interface is difficult because its facilitate the roleplay and convey the physical feelings of what you're doing which should be something they emblazon on the store page as a key draw for the game. it gives the gameplay so much dimensions despite how shallow a lot of it actually is and how much actually didn't age well. the remake is objectively better in a lot of avenues when its comes to gameplay but it fundamentally misses the point by streamlining the interface into just like every other shooter.

anne

The 2nd game definitely went crazier, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, if this isn't one solid ass game. 9/10.

Que juegazo pa, me arrepiento de no haberlo jugado en el momento que lo compre (lo compre como hace 4 años atrás) es un juego muy diferente, que no te engañe esos gráficos estilo doom, el estilo de juego es muy diferente , si eres de esas personas que les gustó bioshock o deus ex, juega a este, porque sin este juego, no existiría los que acabo de mencionar, una joyita este jueguito, juego que fue incomprendido en su momento y ahora se ha convertido en un juego de culto, eso si les aviso, que los controles les parecerá muy confuso, pero es cosa de adaptarse o si quieres puedes cambiar los controles, yo me quede con el predeterminado nomas y empecé a adaptarme a esos controles, ya después te acostumbras a ello y se te hará fácil, este juego no se trata de ir a un punto a hasta el b, aquí lo primordial es explorar la zona y después avanzar y a veces tienes que volver al lugar donde empezaste y asi sucesivamente, una forma de jugar muy adelantada para su época, este juego se lanzo en el año 1994 y me sorprende las funciones que tiene para progresar este juego, la verdad es que quede fascinado con este juego, se convirtió en uno de mis juegos preferidos por su originalidad. El jefe final, bueno, esperaba un poco más, pero fue bastante simplón la verdad, creo que es el único punto negativo que le encuentro, por lo demás es GOOOD. Mi calificación para este juego es un 9.5/10. Totalmente recomendable.

Ein Werk dessen Steuerung ebenso fantastisch ist wie der Visuelle Aspekt. Meine Augen wurden beleidigt und meine Hände entweiht. Ein solches Erlebnis sollte man als Folter für Terroristen verwenden. Die Gefangenen in Guantanamo Bay tun mir jetzt schon leid Auf wiederhören