The game follows an amnesiac soldier who awakens to find the Von Braun deserted and in disarray. Coincidentally owned by a small company called Tri-Optimum, who have more money than most nation states.
This time to take control of the experimental faster-than-light starship, the Von Braun. following events in the original game where the Citadel Space Station was taken over by the AI supercomputer SHODAN, it rears its ugly electronic head 42 years later. No surprises for guessing what happens next. The dreams of Elon Musk have been met as space has been conquered with artificial intelligence having advanced to the point where it can impose its malevolent will. It’s 2114 and the world is a very different place. The game was re-released on Steam for modern audiences in 2013. It has since become a ‘cult classic’ and is regularly featured on many Best Ever Games of All Time lists. It took further inspiration from Looking Glass’s Ultima series, as well as traditional paper and pencil role-playing games. Development first began in 1997, and arly ideas involved a sci-fi allegory of Joseph Conrad’s classic novella Heart of Darkness. It received acclaim from critics and gamers alike but failed to meet its commercial sales targets. System Shock 2 was a co-venture between them and Looking Glass Studios, whose members would eventually go on to leave the company in order to to join creative director Ken Levine. The game was developed by a then-nascent Irrational Games, who would eventually go on to develop a little spiritual successor called Bioshock - you may have heard of it. Originally intended as a standalone title, it was packaged as part of the System Shock series, which began life in 1994.
System Shock 2 (1999) is a first-person survival-horror RPG set in deep space. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?”ĭeveloper: Irrational Games / Looking Glass Studios
Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.
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