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If Elvis is legendary to music, LGS is legendary to games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

LGS stands for Looking Glass Studios. The company has closed down last May. It is sad to see an innovative company being shutdown because the games they make are innovative and intelligent.

System Shock 2 is one example. Co-developed with Irrational Games, which has its root with LGS, this game uses the famous Dark Engine used in games like Thief and Thief 2. This engine is one of its kind: 1. the physics is realistics (you throw a box up on a slope and you can see it sliding down slowly; you stack a few crates and pull away the lower ones and the rest drop and tumbles); 2. the AI is smart: each critters has eyes and ears and therefore react to sight and sound. Yeap, they can hear where you are. Unlike many games which cheat by letting the creatures knwo where you are, this game simulates the real thing. 3. Sound: I think I need not describe how incredible the sound effect, music and digitised speech this game produces. You can read from all the players reviews. It gives so much atmosphere that I shudder to think what the next version of the engine is going to be like. It's sad that the company has closed.

Classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm a first person shooter fan. I loved Halflife and all the Quakes. This is better. It has a long learning curve for someone inexperienced in RPG like me. But it was worth the work. I agree with the earlier reviewer who recommended not reading about it - just do it.

SS2 is a must have for any intelligent Gamer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Although I never had the chance to partake in System Shock, when I downloaded the demo to this game off of @Home, I was instantly hooked. The Thief engine is cleverly disguised as an all new, horrific and terrific world. I share the terror and anxiety of my fellow gamers, and warn that this is no easy game, no game to be taken lightly, and not your standard FPS. I have played em all, and this is one of the best, GET THIS GAME!

Beats any Game that comes to mind

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

System Shock2... one of the best shooter games out there. Dark and Scary enviroments fill this game to ofter shadow the creatures lumbering toward you. Looking around is hazerdous to your players health as you search level after level. Man, this is the best shooter i have ever played! I was totally unprepared for the shock at the end of the Von Braun [the starship you start out on] If you want a good game this is it!

Buy it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is truly an epic game. Winner of PC Gamer's Role-Playing game of the year, I dont see why it isn't a big seller. This game has a GREAT story line and complex role-playing system. I warn you agaisnt playing in the dark because it will have you standing back from you moniter, thats how scary it is. The only problem with ss2 is that slows up a bit and clogges your computer.This is because it runs on the thief engine which is designed for little fighting. But this is only a minor problem.

A shooter that's more than a shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really can't say enough good things about this game. Firstly the code is rock-solid. It's probably the only 3D game that's ever played on our clunky home computer without crashing or giving us glitches. It also has an atmosphere that constantly sends prickles down your spine and encourages you to do more than shoot everything in sight.

This game WILL scare you. As you fall into the world you'll start to jump at every bump and hiss around you... and if you hear a monkey chattering you'll probably start trying to shoot evrtything in sight.

Another interesting aspect is that at the start of the game you get to choose if you want to be a straight out soldier, a psychic, or a technical minded fellow. The skills that you choose can allow you to slip through the many traps and dangers in the game.

The plot is that you are a soldier who has just recieved some cybernetic implants. You wake up from cold-sleep not knowing quite who you are or how you got to where you are, and only have a voice on your comm telling you what you need to do. You're given help in the form of cybernetic modules that upgrade your skills and allow you to gain new ones. You pick up weapons from fallen monsters and also gain healing items.

But you do more than just shoot things. You have to operate machinery, you gather up bits of crewmembers' logs to piece together the truth, you perform chemical analysis on alien organs to find out what they are, and you hack into replicator systems to try and get useful items.

There were only two annoyances in this game, firstly weappons degraded after use at a very unrealistic rate, and the monsters kept re-spawning even if you wiped an area clean of them. BUT.. the developers were kind enough to come up with a patch you can download to fix this particular problem, so its not that big of a deal.

Usually I'm a straight-out adventure game player and I avoid 1st person shooters, but SSII changed my opinion of them remarcably. It was great to actually sink my teeth into something with plot.

The BEST 1st person, sci-fi RPG EVER!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was absolutely wonderful. To start out, you get to choose what military service you want to be in and what kind of training you want to get. This totally affects how the game proceeds. Very sophisticated weaponry. For example, you can even "steal" stuff by hacking. Hack it wrong and it breaks! Beautiful levels, sophisticated tasks. You will stay busy and amazed by this game. So now you are asking, why didn't I give it 5 stars? I got stuck on the second to the last "battle". Bunch of baddies and I couldn't kill them to progress to the end of the game. Other players will probably have no problem with this. Find this game where ever you can it is worth it.

Brilliance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

System Shock 2 is a brilliant combination of fear, adrenaline, single player extensive customisation and required skill. I hate to see a game to easy and that's a good reason to therefore like this, it aint all bang, bang move to the next corridor; its about thinking and engaging combat with some tactical analysis needed. Ammo is low for a change and u'll b freaked out of your mind. One necessary requirement of the game is to play it alone in a dark room. Atmosphere gives it a lot!

The End All of Cyberpunk

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What can I say about System Shock 2? It is the most concept-comprehensive space-faring cyberpunk computer game to date. This sort of thing only comes around every decade or so and pretty much ends up sacrifing the company that makes it due to the law of averages alone (the nature of the universe does not allow such things to be birthed very often). Cybernetics, hacking, and psionics are all used extensively in conjunction with absolutely extraordinary voice acting and a perfectly written mystery. First contact is made, FTL is achieved, genetic mutations abound, harkening back to zombie horror...did I mention this is concept-comprehensive? Better still, all the geekiness is not a compensation for lack of art or universal appeal. It's scary as hell and you could be a complete idiot or have Asperger's and still love it. If nothing else, it has sound. I used to fall asleep to the main menu drone...then I started to date and now I write reviews instead. Enjoy.

Best video game ever made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is by far my favorite video game. It has everything I like. Horror, sci fi, a creepy storyline, all rolled into one. Since so many other people reviewed this, I'll be brief. The sounds are great, the environment is great, the story is great. The sounds create a fantastic ambience. The environment you walk around in really looks like it could be a starship.

The player plays a cyborg with very limited resources. The player has to decide how to use those resources to achieve his goals. In other words, the player can't use every single item or shoot every single weapon around him, unlike a conventional first person shooter. The player can learn a small number of skills very well, or spread his learning across multiple skills and learn several not as well.

The only flaw that this game has is the low polygon count on the foes. This will turn off anyone who is only used to modern games with incredibly high polygon counts for everything. (In other words, the game isn't as graphically advanced as Half Life 2.) However, anyone willing to play a game that has graphics that aren't as amazing as modern games will be satisfied with this game.

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