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Best game ever?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After finally getting this game to run without crashing in the first 2 minutes (just needed to update my video drivers), I realized it is probably the best game I've ever played. The designers managed to make an old, rehashed storyline interesting. (Ship goes into deep space, gets taken over by strange alien entity, hero goes in to investigate) The video and audio make for a really eerie atmosphere, and the various characters, skills, weapons choices, etc. definitely enhance replayability.

I've never really liked first person shooters, but this game goes way beyond that. There are so many different elements, and the designers didn't overlook any detail. Plus, any game that can almost make me soil myself when I get attacked from behind has to be good.

Best computer game ever? Perhaps!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Before 'Thief', before 'Half Life', before 'Deus Ex', even before this, there was the original 'System Shock'. It was perfect. This is better.

Don't miss this one.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game! Of course, by now it is a few years old and the graphics are a bit dated, but it is well worth your time to play it. I loved it, mostly because it is hands down one of the most frightening games I have ever played. Seriously, turn the lights down and the volume up and you will be jumping out of your seat in no time. If you don't want to take my word for it, check out the review by [a pc magazine]. They gave it a 95%.

no time for love, Dr. Jones..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: June 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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this is one of the most frustrating, infuriating, mind numbing games i've ever played. the whole thing could have been completely awesome, but there's just too many of those freakin' zombies coming at you all the time. you're given an extensive menu of items, options, and what not, that you constantly have to pay attention to, but you don't have time to pay attention to it because when you bring up your menu screen, the game doesn't pause and you're constantly being attacked. what this means is: forget about using health powerups, forget about changing ammo when you run out.. forget about anything.. if you stop even for a second, you'll die.. you're better off running like heck if you see anything coming at you. i understand that in "the real world", things don't pause when you reach in your pocket for an item you may have stashed there.. so maybe that's what they were going for.. but it was a stupid idea. i don't even care about finishing this game. it's a shame, because the atmosphere has a lot going for it, and i like the action/horror/RPG mix.. but raising my blood pressure or having a heart attack just isn't worth pushing all those keys so damn fast just to reload an imaginary weapon to kill an imaginary zombie. sorry to all you fans, but i just don't think this game is all that great. FUN is the first thing any game should be, and unfortunately, FUN is exactly what this game is lacking.

the two stars are because for its time, the mix of genres and playing styles was probably fairly groundbreaking, but if you're thinking of seeking out this hard to find game, i'd say PASS on it.

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Immersive; a great sequel

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

System Shock 2 follows many conventions of a role-playing game, with considerable first-person action involved. Like "Thief" (whose engine was used to create "System Shock 2"), the objective is not necessarily to kill everything in sight, but to achieve the required goals. You play a new recruit onboard a starship fighting against alien viruses and the ship's evil main computer. You start with some initial skills of your choice and are given chances to improve your skills as the games progresses. The goals you need to achieve range from mundane to complicated: locating crucial items, unlocking rooms, restore power to equipments, hacking into terminals, scouring dead astronauts' journals for clues, collecting chemicals from laboratories that enable you to research on technologies that help you combat your enemies, find tools that repair and maintain your weapons, and so on. My favorite puzzle is finding pieces of a secret code hidden among the numerous video screens on one of the levels.

Unfortunately, first-person combats are not as fun as they could be. Monsters respawn (shudder!). And, depending on the skills you acquired at the start of the game, you may not be skillful enough to combat efficiently at the beginning, and will be prone to dying over and over again and having to keep restoring your save games (which, on my Pentium II 400 with 96MB, takes over 1 minute per restore).

Also, the cyber-environment in System Shock, which many loved, is not in this game.

Well done, but just too violent for me

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: March 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has many positive aspects as detailed by other reviewers, but was just too violent for me. I found the images of severed heads and limbs disturbing. While the game does have some good strategy elements and character development, in the end it is a first person shooter and your main activity is killing. The plot was very good and kept my going long enough to finish the game. I guess I should stick with Lucas Arts titles.

It's not as good as they say!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 24
Date: April 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after playing the demo and reading several reviews, which all lpretty much made it out to sound pretty good. I've played it through and am content to say that the only ting that it really has going for itself is a good story line and reasonable sound. The enemy graphics and the cutscenes stink. The weapon graphics as they fire are awful. Imagine an EMP Rifle. What do you see. A beam of energy. This thing in the game fires a giant floating blob of blue with points at the sides. Pretty dumb. Whenever someting gets shot, it dies. Shoot it in the head, shoot it in the foot, shot it in its little pinky, same effect. The role-playing is totally limited, this is not a first-person shooter for anyone with experience. The multiplayer stinks, as it is only cooperative and requires your friend to have a copy and an equal-speed modem. If you want a role-playing game with action, get Deus Ex or Sacrifice. If you want a first-person shooter, get No ONe Lives Forever or Unreal Tournament. Be smart! Even though it is inexpensive, I would never suggest buying this game.

Not worth it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 40
Date: November 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I tried this game and hated it. you start of awaking from cryosleep to find aliens have taken over. we need an new storyline for games.

this game is so hard it will have you spending your gaming time screaming at the computer.

if you want a good game go for unreal tortament

Good single player, BUGGY multi-player

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Good plot line that rivals Half-Life's single player story line for fun and immersion. Tremendously engrossing with enough twists to keep you deeply involved for hours. The fun stops there however. My three friends and I had nothing but problems getting the multi-player to cooperate. We eventually gave up. The auto-save games become corrupt for no apparent reason and there were certain areas of the map that would crash our game when we got to them. It took 2 hours just to find the right tweaks that would get our SSII games to talk to each other properly. A top-notch single player game, but second rate when it comes to multi-player. (version played was retail ver. with latest patch as of 5/20/2000)

Simply the Best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome ! It runs on a souped up version of the engine the Thief used... Great Graphics, Playability and Audio round up a winner.

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