System Shock

The Good
What did I like...? I learnt English practically for this game! A subject hated and vilified suddenly had reason to be learnt for, to read the logs and understand what happened on this doomed station! The atmosphere is simply breathtaking. It is difficult to really hook me up, but this one does it. I recently acquired GTA San Andreas and the Doom 3 expansion, but simultaneously I managed to get System Shock (more than 11 years old) working on my Windows XP. Guess which one have I played whole last week?

The Bad
SPOILER Even if I played through the game for 3 times, then skipped two years without it for technical reasons, continuously thirsting for it, then replaying it once again, I am hoping that the escape pod will blast off this time. It doesn't, and I fear going back onto the station shaking violently from the reactor set on destruct. And I still cry out loud when a security robot is around the corner firing on me totally unexpectedly. Then have nightmares about SHODAN taking over the real Internet or jettisoning me through an airlock. I wrote two games of my own totally in honor of System Shock.

This is the only game that causes me to feel real world emotions, and I don't like to be manipulated.

The Bottom Line
A RPG with a decent bit of action, with an absolutely addictive and realistic-feeling horror plot. Go over to www.the-underdogs.org to fetch it, and see www.ttlg.com forums on how to run it in a P4 box. Then prepare to experience a true masterpiece.