Stream Play - System Shock (Remake) - 03 A Bit Lost a Bit of Progression (Part 4 of 4)
9System Shock is a first-person action-adventure video game originally developed by LookingGlass Technologies and published by Origin Systems in 1994. A remake was developed by Nightdive Studios and released in 2023. System Shock was directed by Doug Church with Warren Spector serving as producer.
System Shock takes place from a first-person perspective in a three-dimensional graphical environment. System Shock is set inside a large, multi-level space station, in which players explore, combat enemies and solve puzzles. Progress is largely non-linear, and the game is designed to allow for emergent gameplay. View and posture controls allow the player to lean left or right, look up or down, crouch, and crawl. Practical uses for these actions include taking cover, retrieving items from beneath the player character and navigating small passages, respectively.
System Shock is set in the year 2072. The protagonist — a nameless hacker — is caught while attempting to access files concerning Citadel Station, a space station owned by the TriOptimum Corporation. The hacker is taken to Citadel Station and brought before Edward Diego, a TriOptimum executive. Diego offers to drop all charges against the hacker in exchange for a confidential hacking of SHODAN, the artificial intelligence that controls the station. Diego secretly plans to steal an experimental mutagenic virus being tested on Citadel Station and to sell it on the black market as a biological weapon. To entice cooperation, Diego promises the hacker a valuable military-grade neural implant. After hacking SHODAN, removing the AI's ethical constraints, and handing control over to Diego, the protagonist undergoes surgery to implant the promised neural interface. Following the operation, the hacker is put into a six-month healing coma. The game begins as the protagonist awakens from his coma and finds that SHODAN has commandeered the station.
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