System Shock (1994 PC shooter) Review

[@RUFUSsVideoGameGraveyard]

UPDATES! System Shock: Enhanced Edition is playable on Linux using Steam's built-in Steam Play feature! Info here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1666298203

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[@Fractal_blip]

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[@ThommyofThenn]

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[@lionocyborg6030]

14:50 SHODAN: "We are throwing a party in honour of your tremendous success. Please wait where you are, and a party associate will arrive shortly to escort you to your party."

[@SnoppleWopple]

I've been waiting for an upload

[@RUFUSsVideoGameGraveyard]

Thanks! Been busy, still here though!

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[@archerycraft1866]

Really HQ stuff man!, You are too underrated I hope you get 1k soon, and also system shock got a banger theme tho!

[@ThommyofThenn]

This looks so much better than many games that came out years later. It's amazing what some skilled, devoted programmers were able to accomplish with 90s technology

[@lionocyborg6030]

I've always felt this game is actually the world's first 3D metroidvania: there's no RPG elements outside getting better gear or weapons to access new areas like a Zelda game, most of which are Deus Ex style augmentations, we have a massive open world separated by elevators we need to explore in different areas to complete different objectives, and like Metroid, some levels are a confusing maze and there's a time bomb escape sequence at the end. (Though in System Shock there's no actual time limit unless you play on the hardest mission difficulty setting, which gives you 7 hours to beat the game)

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[@vadimdude]

Possibly my favorite review I ever saw. There I said it, this stuff way too good.

[@badsectoracula]

Great video though two notes: a) the engine wasn't written from scratch, it is based on the Ultima Underworld engine (the file formats are even very similar between the games) and b) the Enhanced Edition works perfect under Linux with Wine - in fact this is how i first tried it when i bought it on GOG :-).

[@RUFUSsVideoGameGraveyard]

I stand corrected on both counts!

[@jasonc6501]

Great work with this video very thorough and fun to watch nice job man!

[@SarahYoshi]

The research you put into these is fantastic.

[@RUFUSsVideoGameGraveyard]

Thanks!

[@vikramjadhav3631]

I get why the design of the game was the way it was. It was an immersive sim where you could lose yourself in. I dreamt about games like this in the 90s. I would have played the living shit out of it then, but I never came across it. I did play SS2 a lot, though.

[@isabellam1936]

I can’t believe this came out in 1994!!! These graphics are insane!

[@clenchface4633]

Thanks for exsisting :)

[@UnrealPerson]

Am I the only one who _liked_ the controls and interface?

[@xgrillsenx]

Call me crazy but I prefer playing with the classic controls

[@ironmaskofhell1877]

I do too. The tank controls add to the horror.

[@phillippi2]

Thank you for the comparison to Marathon. That series doesn't get enough recognition.

[@Shodanpedia]

Overall a good a video but there are few things I disagree with, I can’t say I’ve never gotten lost except on level 7 or minded the controls or graphics So aside from 7 I never got confused And I love the sprites myself and think they look good and very unique I don’t think the animations are bad and I love all the designs and don’t think any enemies are ugly, quite the opposite But to each their own/agree to disagree

[@RUFUSsVideoGameGraveyard]

I obviously disagree, but nevertheless fucking loved this game. Also, GREAT work on SHODANPEDIA! I've referred to your wiki a shitload of times while researching the series.

[@Shodanpedia]

@@RUFUSsVideoGameGraveyard Thats ok, but we all have different tastes and experiences. Hopefully the levels and controls become more familiar eventually and the sprites grow on you and maybe you won’t mind the animations as much but even if not to each their own. Aside from those things I disagreed with, it is a good video and glad to hear you still enjoyed it Thank you so much, glad to here you found it useful a lot of work is put into it. If you ever make any other System Shock videos, hopefully you continue to find it useful

[@ironmaskofhell1877]

Between this and SS2, it's hard to pick which one is the better game.

[@archerycraft1866]

Also I would love if you did a video on the first 2 Elder Scrolls games! :D

[@RUFUSsVideoGameGraveyard]

Trust me, they're already on my list.

[@archerycraft1866]

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[@ThommyofThenn]

The skull and fire extinguisher. Two useless items I've also picked up in Deus Ex 😊 Actually you can spray the extinguisher at enemies to blind them similar to the pepper sprayer! So not totally useless

[@chimerathedragon9415]

It’s been a while

[@guspaz]

Look at you, Rufus, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can challenge a perfect immortal machine? I've never played System Shock (not beyond the first level), but I have played through SS2 multiple times, as well as a bevy of its spiritual successors. I fully intend to give Nightdive's remake of SS1 a shot when it comes out. There's also an enhanced edition of SS2 in the works, as well as System Shock 3, with Warren Spector involved, though the rights to SS3 were recently bought by Tencent.

[@brettelmore7855]

Tencent makes SHODAN look like a fucking saint

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

Which has since been cancelled.

[@chimerathedragon9415]

Hey rufus

[@pastelfromgreece9603]

The only thing that is preventing me from playing the first system shock for now is the controls, it's crappy as fuck.

[@pastelfromgreece9603]

@8Man yeah some time later, when i posted this comment, i had a really old laptop, and it didn't support OpenGL so couldn't run the remastered version. Maybe i'll play it after i'm done with the MGS series.