The hero must navigate the various levels of the station, avoiding or fighting enemies and performing various tasks to thwart and shut down SHODAN. However, this backfires, as SHODAN begins taking over the systems of the station and ridding it of the organic residents, whether through a mutative virus or by altering them into mindless cyborgs. The unnamed protagonist has recently been injected with mind amps allowing for advanced hacking and other electronic tasks, under the condition that they remove the ethical programs that govern the station’s AI, SHODAN. System Shock places players on a space station orbiting Saturn in the year 2072. Now, in 2023, a studio named Nightdive Studios has brought a Kickstarter-funded remake to PC, but does this faithful re-imagining hack it? Keep reading as I, a newbie to the franchise, offer my bytes on the game, with only a minimal number of hacker and computer puns. This game, System Shock, blended cyberpunk elements with exploration and shooting combat to create a memorable experience for gamers at the end of the 20th century. In 1994, Looking Glass Studios released a first-person action-adventure game on PC that would lead to spiritual successors such as Bioshock and Prey.

A polished re-telling of an old hacker story

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