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Crap,

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 64
Date: January 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What is this?

Got the game for free.

Expected a semi-solid shooter with a decent story to keep me playing it.

Well, this wasn't it. A way too complex game. All the time I was apparently upgrading my character's abilties in different sections. I never had a clue about what these abilities did. I got weird names and numbers, like (+1) Maintenance. 3/4 of the time I didn't even have a clue about what was I doing, wandering around way too dark corridors (Forget about playing this game during the day) trying to find something I had no clue what it was.

I got halfway trough the game, and I'm still using a wrench as a primary weapon. Apparently you can use physic powers, but it takes several minutes to select the "spell" (Among hundreds) the item, the etc and etc so I just found myself fighting with a wrench against hordes of zombies that kept coming out of nowhere.

I once got a pistol but it only had a couple of bullets. I could only find a couple of bullets per level.

Uninstalled it 4 hours after I got it, after the inmense frustration of being killed by the same zombie over and over again, when I had nothing to defend myself with except a wrench, and I had killed him a dozen times.

Not for me.

Fun, but long and repetitive; klunky interface

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: February 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game does the best job I've seen of building an atmosphere; it's the best thing about this game. Let me tell ya - get ready for one creepy ride. Every aspect of the game contributes to it - the music, scenery, sounds, critters, etc. You'll jump, squirm, and hold your breath hoping those "Many" baddies don't get a glimpse of you.

Once the creepiness wears off (and it does), the game gets really long, tiring, repetitive; long, tiring, repetitive; long, tiring, repetitive. The storyline, told for the most part through emails and logs, moves incredibly slowly. It takes your character about 12 or 14 hours of play to "learn" what the user knows by reading the game's CD insert.

The game's design has a few other flaws, such as a significant lack of ammunition on most of the levels. There are also several points in the game where I wasn't sure what exactly I was supposed to do. The interface is klunky and can be difficult to manage when timing in the game is an issue.

Overall, the game was fun and had some interesting facets to it, but it didn't make me want to play it over and over. In fact, if/when System Shock 3 is released, I'll probably skip it.

Some Shock value...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: August 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In the varied and overcrowded plateu of first-person games, it's always nice to see someone try to break away from the mold, but unfortately, System Shock 2 comes a little too late. Having missed the chance to beat Half-Life to the punch, this game is a fun play, but one best borrowed from a friend.

Scary, cool, but not a whole lot of fun.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: February 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Other reviews relate this game to a really scary horror movie. I agree. This game scared the living weasel out of me more than any movie could.

But when I go out to buy a game, I'm not really looking for something that's gonna scare me. I want a game that's fun. And SS2 just didn't cut it.

Awkward play control (especially when fighting), lousy attempt at techno music, bad graphics. It's not enough RPG to be an RPG, and at the same time, not enough of an FPS to be an FPS.

Bottom Line: You wanna be scared witless? Read a good book or watch a horror movie. Wanna have a lot of fun? Buy Unreal.

The plot's the best part

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Not sure whether to give this a 3 or a 4. This is kind of like a first person shooter like half-life, only you are too weak to really get into big fights. It has some RPG elements, but only barely. The graphics are ugly, but i don't really care about graphics. The respawning monsters (but not respawning ammo) are annoying, and the weapons that break after a couple of shots are MAJORLY ANNOYING! That alone is reason to have the author kicked. But despite all of that, the game is actually fun to play, and the story is somewhat interesting. You could consider Deus Ex to be System Shock 3, since it's extremely similar only with better technology and weapons that don't break as easily (although the ammo is still limited - none of these are Quake kiling sprees). But SS2 is a fun game, you just got to keep your expectations somewhat low, because there are a lot of little, annoying things here

A Good Review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is ok. It overall entertained me for a while, but like any and every other game (except for Diablo 2 of corse )other game got booring after a while.

Last few levels kill it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I never cared about multiplay for this game, I don't mind the difficulty (in fact I enjoyed it), and I thought the graphics were fine (especially for when it was released). Having been a huge System Shock 1 fan, I was first in line (pretty much literally, too) to buy this sequel when it was released, and for the most part I absolutely loved it.

Now let me qualify "for the most part". That means everything until about three major levels before the end, at which point the game completely buried itself. To this day, I even remember the specific point at which I realized it had passed the point of non-redemption: where you found several very tall columns sliding up and down that were supposed to be (ahem) "teeth", and you had to jump across them a la 80's side-scroller. The ending of this game (along with the couple of levels immediately preceding it) was so incredibly god-awful that I have to ding not 1, not 2, but *3* stars. It it just that bad.

An ending this bad, that ruins what was a masterpiece of a game leading up to it, is nothing new in computer games. In fact, one of the highest-profile examples of it is quite similar to SS2, and that is Half-Life. Now, if you're the type that's able to overlook a game's ending and enjoy just portions of the journey for their own sake, then you'll likely enjoy this game more than 2 stars' worth. However, if you're like me and can think of few game design sins worse than a horrible ending, than my rating stands. SS2 started out as one of the best sequels I'd ever played, and ultimately ended as one of the most disappointing.

The scariest computer game ever made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Complete and utter horror!!!!! That is the only way that I can describe this game. This game is mind-numbingly gruesome, terrifying tale of a world just beginning to crawl out of cyberpunk dystopia, only to have its latest scientific marvel plunged back into that hell.

SHODAN is back, and she wants you to fight her battle against her biological creations. You are caught in a deadly crossfire in the claustrophobic corpse of a starship, and you have no friend but yourself.

As the extremely complex plot twists and turns on itself, you are further plunged into an electronighmare which only intensifies until you finally discover the true horror of SHODAN's latest plans...

The gameplay is a brilliant hybrid of FPS and RPG, with a complicated RPG system making the game incredibly deep.

If you have EVER passed this game up, you deserve to die. This game is far more atmospheric than Deus Ex or any similar title and it is the most unutterably scary game I have ever played.

This will give you nightmares!

PLAY IT. NOW!

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the first game to actually give me nightmares. That only happened when I made the mistake of playing the game at night. But that aside it is a terrific game with great graphics and if you liked this you might try for Deus Ex (Latin meaning man from a machine) almost the same and not as scary. Overall it is well worth the ten bucks.

The suspense will kill you!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One of the best games I have ever played. Looking glass was terrific.

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