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System Shock 2
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System Shock 2 Critic Reviews
After that, it’s on to the story. TriOptimum, the corporation that created the evil artificial intelligence SHODAN in the first System Shock, is back in public favor with the Von Braun, a new faster-than-light starship. The UNN still doesn’t trust...read the complete System Shock 2 review at ESC Magazine
Now that the kiddies are comfy in their living rooms happily playing their shiny new Dreamcasts it's time to get back to the real deal, the kind of gaming that takes place after hours in the darkened back office, or in that exceptionally shady corner of...read the complete System Shock 2 review at Games First!
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Irrational Games and Looking Glass have produced one of the best games I've ever played. System Shock 2 is truly scary, smart, challenging, fascinating, and disturbing. I recommend it to any adventurous adventure player....read the complete System Shock 2 review at Just Adventure
Forty-three years after the original System Shock's fiasco aboard the space station Citadel, and TriOptimum Corp. is again experiencing some "technical" difficulties. In short, the menacing cyber-intelligence SHODAN has returned to wreak havoc upon the...read the complete System Shock 2 review at Science Fiction Weekly
In Shock 2, an alien intelligence/virus known as Xerxes, begins to mutate your human comrades aboard the ship, the Von Braun, attempting to degrade them into pawns of the growing alien consciousness known as The Many. You will be met with force by mutant...read the complete System Shock 2 review at HonestGamers
Plague against the machine - System Shock 2 inherits the strengths of the original-the cybernetic upgrades, wide variety of weapons and equipment, constantly moving plotline, and fully realized environments full of alien enemies-and jacks it up with...read the complete System Shock 2 review at GamePro
If playing games is more of a religion than a hobby to you, meet your new bible...System Shock 2 will scare the hell right out of you -- and you'll like it for that reason....read the complete System Shock 2 review at Adrenaline Vault
Fast foward to 1999 with System Shock 2, 40 years later (in game-time). After the Citadel incident, TriOptimum became a reclusive company. Spending all their power on new technology, they developed a way to travel faster than the speed of light. But of...read the complete System Shock 2 review at Gaming Age
One of the great tragedies of the gaming industry is that whenever a publisher takes a risk and creates an original and groundbreaking title, more often than not its efforts are rewarded with crates of unsold boxes. Such was the case with 1994's System...read the complete System Shock 2 review at PC Gamer
When the game first starts, it is 2111, and you are a random person who wishes to join the military. You recieve first basic, and then some more advanced training from all three branches of the military. These branches consist of the Marines, the Navy,...read the complete System Shock 2 review at All RPG
You're a soldier stationed on the Van Braun, and as soon as you wake from your sleep in the cyrochamber, the memory restoration procedure fails mid-way through and leaves you without any memories of what has been happening ever since you came on board....read the complete System Shock 2 review at RPGFan
Looking Glass shows the gaming world what constructing a sequel is all about....read the complete System Shock 2 review at IGN
Humans like to categorize things. "He's a thoughtful person." "That soup was delicious." You hear descriptions such as these all the time in daily conversation. But only once in a while do you come across a person or object that is truly a tangible idea....read the complete System Shock 2 review at Firing Squad
You are guided around the ship by a voice claiming to be a survivor in OPS-centre, and you have to put your trust in her.
There is quite a RPG-element in the game, and when you complete certain tasks you receive what is called “Cyber Modules”,...read the complete System Shock 2 review at Game Boomers
System Shock 2 has somewhat of a wayward storyline, the reason it is wayward is because there is almost introduction to the horrors you will soon behold, nothing to prepare the feeble minded gamer for what he is about to behold, nothing to give you...read the complete System Shock 2 review at NZGamer
Simply put, the creepy atmosphere is incredible. Forget those survival horror games full of cheap scares and dark alleys. System Shock 2 manages to frighten without succumbing to horror contrivances. Considering this game is six years old, it truly is an...read the complete System Shock 2 review at Thunderbolt
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