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Very good. Original System Shock w/ voices disabled is still my preferred experience. It has better music and music is really important for mood. Some parts of the game that were creepy in System Shock 1 are no longer at all creepy, so the atmosphere is better in a few places as well. Remake is still really fun but if you're a zoomer and are afraid to play the old one for some reason, go play it if you liked this remake because the original is still cooler tbh.

32 hours in a few days woo

protip keep a save before entering the NPP cause once you do u can't leave it

Transformation theme aside (not that I mind myself), this is actually a fun, nice, extremely difficult at times game.


If you're a f u r f a g and/or you don't suck ass at action/puzzle games it's definitely worth the $6 they're charging for it.


Also Puro uwuwuwuwu

It's like Doom 2, except the whole thing was fan-made in 1996, and as a result, is much more difficult, with even more interesting level design and cheesy music.

If you weren't aware that this is the best survival (horror) game on Steam, you were ignorant. You know now, though. If you don't *think* it is, your brain must've been influenced by the T-Virus. Luckily for the rest of the world, I'm pretty great at headshots. And burning.

The point of this METAL Quake-styled FPS is to last as long as possible fighting off waves of creepy skull-based enemies, with each wave progressing the difficulty somewhat, and occasionally, introducing a new enemy type. Your best time is automatically added to the leaderboard, and you can watch an automatically recorded clip of your best time, as well as anyone else's on the scoreboard. The sound design is extremely satisfying, and the game certainly does a great job of imitating a classic mid-1990s FPS, graphics-wise. Extremely challenging, and addicting.

Longest time alive as of this review: 202.4779 seconds @ a few hours of gameplay
Global leaderboard position as of this review: #443 / 16115

Unreal is a very difficult (provided you play on the later difficulties) and classic FPS from the late 90s. The AI in Unreal and Unreal Tournament 1999 is very advanced, as they become better at dodging rockets and predicting your own movements, which means they'll aim their rockets and other projectiles not directly at you (at least not 100% of the time), but where you're headed, with surprising accuracy. The AI is actually better than most people I've seen play FPSs, and not because their accuracy and HP stats were raised 200% like most games. You, as the player, are also able to use agile dodging moves like the enemies you face. Because of this, and the fact the levels are very large with plenty of secret areas to explore, and a ton of inventory items and weapons to find, Unreal is very fun to play. The graphics are great, and the music is, too. It has most of the same composers as Deus Ex and Unreal Tournament 1999 (obviously).
If you're one of the people who likes a bit of story in their games, Unreal offers a lot of that in the form of a universal translator the player can use to read alien texts and carvings, while also reading the diaries of humans also stranded on the planet you're on.

Overall, the game is excellent, and for the $10 price tag, you'd be silly not to pick it up.


EDIT LIKE 7 YEARS LATER: Here's better music than what I originally had in this review (was WarGate FYI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd67viF7Q54

I've completed this game before its release on Steam, and it's excellent. From the creators of System Shock, we have a full-scale, totally immersive combat game experience with an extensive array of weapons and gadgets, cheesy full-motion videos, and large, pretty levels. The story would take too long to explain, but in short, you command a 4 person squad (yourself included) in Strike Force Centauri, a special forces group made out of the best soldiers from each smaller special forces group in the Centauri system. Your squad wears heavy Powered Battle Armor (PBAs), which basically means you're wearing a ton of things that can get broken in firefights (including jump jets!). Each mission has a video and text briefing, after which you can set up your team members and their loadouts, based on what you think they should need for what you were just briefed on. The levels themselves are very large, so that you may plan ahead and set waypoints on the map to make a route for a safe sniping distance from enemy camps, tanks, etc.
If you've ever played the classic Rainbow Six games, the squad members work like that in-mission. There are a ton of commands to give them, and you can tell each individual member what to do or where to go. This is NOT for beginners.

My only complaint is that the game desperately needed a sequel. ("Needed" because today's devs would screw it up)

...Gameplay-wise, this game is like Rainbow Six and Battlefield mixed with jump jets, or something. It's a very fun game, and it's well worth the price. I paid about five times more for the boxed version, and I proudly display it on my shelf.


Let me remind you that Terra Nova is NOT a game for beginners. Thank you. Have a nice day.

Listen to the music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5DLI9muO3w

This game is super difficult and fun. It's a puzzle platformer where you use a rubber fishing line as a hookshot to get around places, while avoiding puzzle-traps and rad enemies. The fishing line's length can be adjusted during use, and it can be used to pull enemies to their deaths. If you pull an enemy off a ledge and you're still holding on as he falls, he'll also pull you to your death. It's pretty funny. Most levels have multiple exits that will progress you one stage further, or let you skip stages if the exit is either harder to get to or a secret. Anything else I can tell you is obvious information you can learn from watching the store video.

Anyway, if you like Mario Bros. 3 for the challenge, this game is for you. It's a classic.

The prequel to the incredibly famous System Shock 2. It's really just as good, if not better, in my opinion. This Enhanced Edition on Steam comes with the standard floppy and CD releases of System Shock 1, as well, so don't worry: If you don't want HD graphics or modified controls in a classic DOS game, you don't have to deal with that stuff at all. A lot of new gamers are s-h-i-t-t-y at video games, so they need mouselook or whatever. If you think you're not terrible at games, the normal, classic controls are just fine. They just take an hour or so to get totally used to, since they are unusual.

Anyway, this game is great.

I recommend playing on the hardest difficulty, since there are machines you have to find and enable on each sector of the space station that are essentially regeneration chambers, things that people who've played System Shock 2 first will easily recognize. Thing is, dying and respawning (with low health) in one of these costs you nothing at all, so you should definitely choose the timed-gameplay setting in the difficulty options as well, where a 7-hour time limit (part of the story) is imposed on the game. This makes it so the "revive in a room with no consequences" mechanic does have a consequence other than "get annoyed that I have to walk back to some other room". Personally, I just avoided the regeneration things altogether.

Besides that, the game has a great atmosphere, and it has all the complex movements that System Shock 2 had, and more. You can lean, crouch, go prone, jump, sprint, and climb up ledges. You can lean while crouching or going prone, as well. If you play on my recommended difficulty setting, the game is less of a "sprint around hallways and hit guys with shotguns with my wrench before they hit me" type of game like System Shock 2, and more of a Rainbow Six in Space type of game. This is because you really need to lean around corners and go prone or crouch while shooting to avoid getting killed in like two seconds. It's also because there are plenty of grenades/mines that you have at your disposal that explode on impact or just very quickly, so you usually want to throw them around corners and get out of the way fast.

There are no PSI powers like in System Shock 2, but you will find new implants for your "Military-grade Neuro-Interface" that'll do stuff like let you run fast, or fly vertically. These and other implants have multiple hardware upgrades that you will (or not) find throughout the game.

Speaking of PSI, there is no PSI meter by your health, but instead, an electric energy meter. The implants you gain and all energy weapons will use this shared power source, which can be recharged with battery items or static power-stations.

Your interface lets you jack into computers to access cyberspace, which is probably the most 90s thing you'll ever see in a videogame. I'd explain it here, but it's honestly so much more amazing when you play the game and go "OH GOD WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON"

The story is awesome. The story is explained in the intro cinematic, which I will post a link to here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ITiEm6W5EM


So yeah. System Shock is the apex predator of cyberpunk videogames. It's complex and difficult, so any fans of old-school gameplay should love it.