Classic first-person role-playing game System Shock now has an Enhanced Edition with a handful of extra features. They’re all games you love, but they probably wouldn’t be real if it weren’t for System Shock. Awakening after six months in a coma, you find the station you knew in ruins, with cyborgs and robots following a mysterious and risky AI named SHODAN.
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This Enhanced Edition is 100 percent DRM-free, meaning no Internet connection or client is necessary to download it and play. This 1994 DOS release mixed Ultima Underworld’s RPG elements with Doom’s sci-fi shooter gameplay, striking a balance that inspired a generation story-based action games.
And if you prefer the original experience? That wasn’t a standard back then, but it’s been added to System Shock: Enhanced Edition, along with an improved inventory and item management system, remappable keys, and various bug fixes. GOG.com also tossed in some goodies as well, including the soundtrack, a hintbook, a full strategy guide, and even the 1990s TV commercial.
For many modern gamers, the name System Shock doesn’t mean all that much.
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“System Shock” is one of those fantastic games that’s nearly impossible to play because of newer operating systems – thankfully, that won’t be the case any longer, as an updated version just launched earlier today! That’s a shame, too: despite its relative lack of popularity, System Shock has been influencing the gaming industry for years. Looking Glass Studios’ game-remastered here by Night Dive Studios, who also did the sequel-can now be yours for $8 on GOG (there’s a 20% discount on at the moment).
