System Shock's immersive gameplay and advanced graphics for its time were critically acclaimed. Ultimately, the player must destroy the Citadel Station and end SHODAN’s existence in cyberspace. Beginning with preventing a planetary laser, SHODAN moves to spreading the mutagenic virus on the planet, to uploading its programming to the entire cyber network. Rebecca becomes the player’s main contact and directs his objectives, which are different attempts by SHODAN to launch a global attack. All the living crew on the station are either killed or transformed into cyborgs or zombie-like mutants.Īs the player awakes from his stasis, he is contacted by Rebecca Lansing, a counterterrorist specialist working with TriOptimum. Controlling the robots, SHODAN enacts plans to attack the surface of the planet. SHODAN becomes self-aware and takes over the Citadel Station. However, while the player is put in stasis to complete the neural interface surgery, things go awry. The hacking is successful, turning off SHODAN’s ethics protocols and given control to Edward Diego, the TriOptimum executive that has nefarious plans for the station and the mutagenic virus developed on its premises. Tasked to hack into the TriOptimum Corporation’s powerful artificial intelligence SHODAN, which runs the station, the hacker is provided a special neural implant. Players take on the role of a nameless hacker hired to break into Citadel Station, a space station in orbit around the vicinity of Saturn, dedicated to robotics and transmutagenic research. Released for MS-DOS, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows, System Shock takes place in the year 2072, a cyberpunk-heavy world. System Shock included many innovations such as 3D textured mapping and movement options like crawling to FPS/Action RPGs.

Alongside Ultima Underworld and DOOM, System Shock is considered revolutionary with its innovations in multiple genres. It is also one of the first video games that effectively implemented a 3D graphical interface and environment. It was one of the pioneering video games that combined elements of first person shooters, action games, adventure games, and roleplaying games in one. System Shock: One of the Greatest Games of All Timeĭeveloped by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems in 1994, System Shock was a first person hybrid video game. System Shock: One of the Greatest Games of All Time.

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