Sound plays the most important factor, especially the fully voiced audio logs you pick up off the dead personnel which slowly unravel the terrible events that occurred. The most amazing thing about the game is the atmosphere which is thick and oppressive despite the now dated visuals. Of course things go terribly wrong on its maiden voyage and now you are all alone with no memory on the slowly deteriorating ship which is now nearly devoid of human life and crawling with hostile alien horrors. Years after that incident mankind has designed a faster-than-light star-ship and has started to explore the universe. A helpful recap fills the player in on the near destruction of earth by the insane computer AI SHODAN sometime in the near future.
While technically a sequel (to a game I've unfortunately never had the pleasure of playing) System Shock 2 is completely enjoyable without any prior knowledge of the previous game. In this case they were shooter, role playing and survival horror. System Shock 2 was the next logical step, a then unique blend of styles. Shooters were beginning to feel like they took place in real, constructed worlds instead of a thinly related series of interconnected levels. All of a sudden storytelling was shaping game-play with flowing narrative structures influencing level design and player progression. Games like Jedi Knight and Half-Life had changed everyone's perception of the genre which until then had been defined mostly by simple action titles like Doom and Quake.
By desomondo | Review Date: JDuring the late 90s PC gaming had begun to evolve, especially in the FPS genre.
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