2072; orbiting Saturn aboard TriOptimum Corporation's Citadel space station: You awaken from a six-month healing coma with a broken memory and a newly-installed cybernetic interface to discover that most of the other occupants of the station are dead...or worse. The station's self-sufficient AI, SHODAN (Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network) has assumed total control and seems hell-bent on destroying all human life. TriOptimum believes you are Citadel's last hope. Can you save yourself and smash SHODAN's evil plans?

System Shock incorporates first-person shooter and adventure gameplay styles, with role-playing elements thrown in. The player is given the ability to physically interact with the environment by picking up, destroying, and throwing objects. There is a large variety of items to find; beside weapons and healing kits, there are also different accessories that can be used to customize the playing character.

The story of the game is mostly told through e-mail messages you receive from the few survivors (as well as SHODAN herself), and electronic diaries (logs) left by different characters, which are scattered around the space station.

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User Reviews

Atmosphere, story-telling and gameplay in an amazing union	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (53164)
An FPS with a Plot!?! DOOM seems insignificant by comparison!	DOS	Great Hierophant (70)
Brilliant does not even begin to describe this game.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4480)
The Finest First-Person Shooter Ever Designed.	DOS	Doug Peterson (6)
Words cannot begin to describe how great this game really is!	DOS	Sam Jeffreys (3021)
Your system has been shocked. Remember to Salt The Fries	DOS	Black Wolf (37274)
Cyber/Horror FPS-Adventure	DOS	Tom White (14)
This game creeped me out!	DOS	Shiek of Geek (27)
Probably the greatest game of all time	DOS	Soulbreather (18)
Excellent	DOS	Ashley Pomeroy (227)

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