

You’ll have to play the game to find out who the hell SHODAN is… I won’t ruin it for you.Įnough about the game, let’s talk about the music. Along the way you upgrade yourself, as you’re a cybernetic hacker, not just by picking up better weapons but also by leveling up by getting better parts for yourself that give you different abilities (like the games I mentioned before copied, along with Deus Ex). You’re trapped alone (because everything else on the ship is there to kill you or mess with your head) and you must fight your way through hallways of infected crew members, psionic monkeys, killer robots, turrets, and more. Of course, everything went wrong and now that ship is pretty much HELL. Some experimental spaceship was supposed to jump in space to another part in space to pioneer faster than light travel. System Shock 2 is very similar to the movie Event Horizon. Still, none of these games would have been possible without System Shock 2! Dead Space follows System Shock 2 even better and is even scarier, I think. The Bioshock games are spooky and they follow the formula to the detail. Sure, there is Aliens vs Predator BUT System Shock 2 has the winning single player horror science-fiction experience that became the winning formula for most games of this genre. Think of System Shock 2 as the grandfather of the modern day horror science-fiction video game. It’s here now for you to enjoy! System Shock 2 cover The soundtrack for System Shock 2 does an amazing job creating a state of panic and despair as you fight your way surviving in a maze of two very, very dead spaceships. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?” That chilling line from SHODAN sums up the entire gaming experience that is System Shock 2. “Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.
