Set in the distant future, you play as a hacker who has been caught hacking into a large corporation’s computers. “System Shock: Enhanced Edition” is a slightly updated version of a first-person action/adventure/horror game from 1994. Not to mention that, in an earlier sale on GoG, I also got a complimentary bonus copy of “System Shock 2” – so I was eager to take a look at the original game first.Īlthough “System Shock: Enhanced Edition” is probably also available on other platforms too, the GoG version of this game comes with a few extras ( like a downloadable soundtrack, downloadable manuals, a copy of the original 1994 version of the game etc…).Īnyway, let’s take a look at “System Shock: Enhanced Edition”: The idea of a retro cyberpunk game from the early-mid 1990s intrigued me enough that I picked up a DRM-free copy for about two quid during a sale on GoG last year. That said, I have a lot to say about what I have seen of “System Shock: Enhanced Edition”. It’s more than a “first impressions” article and less than a full review ( hence the “mini review” title that I only usually use for collections of fan-made “Doom II” levels etc.). So, I thought that I’d point out that this mini review only covers my impressions of perhaps the first 20-40% of the game at most. SHODAN was involuntarily reactivated and then integrated itself into the Von Braun system, leading to the events of System Shock 2.Although this is slightly more than just a “first impressions” review of “System Shock: Enhanced Edition”, I should probably start by saying that, although I have played a moderate amount of this game, I haven’t finished it at the time of writing.ĭue to the game’s sheer length and complexity, there probably wouldn’t be any reviews here for months if I finished it before writing.

SHODAN's wafer was brought aboard this ship by Bayliss, a UNN soldier, and given to Dr. The signal was eventually picked up by the starship Von Braun. During that time, SHODAN's processing unit 43893 was mostly dormant, but broadcasted a distress signal for 42 years.

The biological life forms on board mutated to form the Many, a hive mind organism. The ejected Grove - which contained SHODAN's grand biological experiment and one of her processing components travelled through space at incredibly high speeds (probably travelling through a worm hole) until it landed on Tau Ceti V. The Grove was finally jettisoned by the Hacker.

Gerard Koufax noted that SHODAN decided to seal off Beta Grove for unknown reasons and afterwards spent a whole day to override the circuitry. SHODAN had been using this Grove as a Petri dish for her bio-experiments.

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