

I was supposed to rendezvous with this woman, Dr. Apparently all hell had broken loose on the spaceship, and we were two of the only people left alive. Shortly after starting the game up and walking through the preliminary character-building section, I was dropped into the Von Braun and told by a disembodied voice coming from an intercom about what had just gone wrong. Little did I know what was in store for me. This is just a cheap rip-off of Event Horizon, comparing it to a campy cyberpunk movie about people dying in a remote spaceship. Its monsters were chunkily polygonal, and they moved around the game’s gloomy spaceship setting in a slow, plodding way. Even by the standards of late-nineties PC games, System Shock 2 didn’t look great.

Both of these now-legendary games were heavily inspired by the original System Shock, which came out for the PC in 1994. I first picked up System Shock 2 up after I heard about the lineage it shared with the original Deus Ex, another stellar first-person RPG. Let’s all remember in turn just how scared we were when we first stepped into the Von Braun spaceship. The first full title produced by Irrational Games when it was still a tiny spin-off from Looking Glass Studios, this terrifying hybrid of a first person shooter and RPG first came out 15 years ago today. I personally think Prey is far more deserve to be called a spritual successor of System Shock 2.Before there was BioShock, there was System Shock 2. bioshock on other hand was mediocre from every way from level design to shooting to a predictable twist. Prey while a great game suffer from terrible graphics and animation, terrible combat until you get powers and it become really interesting. I played it for the first time in 2013 and was still blown away. neither Prey nor Bioshock are even shadow of system shock. its far more open level design and has more deeper RPG elements than bioshockīoth games fall flat compare to System shock 2.

it feel more like system shock than bioshock. he created bioshock infinite too which is worse.įast forward 10 years later, arkane revieve Prey as System Shock successor. even worse that it was made by Ken levinne. and basically feel like dumbed down version of system shock. however game was utterly linear and more of scripted. 10 years later its Prey.īioshock was very well recieve. both games claim to be spritual successor of System shock.
