I had always wanted to play System Shock, to trace the lines of video game history, but as an older, PC-only game, it was hard to get my hands on. It also popularized some narrative techniques that now feel tired, like the general practice of telling your story through audio logs.
Over time its legacy has grown, explicitly influencing games like the aforementioned BioShock and Dead Space, but also Dishonored, Prey, and Deathloop. Originally developed by Looking Glass Studios, it was a moderate hit at the time, but not explosively popular like its contemporary Doom. īefore I was deeply entrenched in the world of video games as a critic and a journalist, I knew about System Shock, but it wasn’t possible for me to play it. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Stumble across an audio log describing the precise solution to stopping SHODAN’s plan and learn you’ve already completed most of it by interacting with every object you’ve seen across the station - unless you flipped the wrong switch in the wrong order, in which case congratulations, Earth is doomed.Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences.Realize you require an item from a different level and repeat all the previous steps there.Look around for giant screens with numbers, and for god’s sake, write them down - you’re going to need them.Loosen SHODAN’s hold on the level by shooting security cameras, flipping switches, activating resurrection stations, solving high-tech Pipe Dream puzzles, and jacking into cyberspace arenas that work like an even trippier variant of Descent.Wander around whichever level of Citadel Station you happen to be on, fighting an ever-proliferating crew of mutants and cyborgs, plus some robots that will make you rue the invention of the printed circuit board while watching the game’s map fill in and taking note of its many locked doors.Hear about some flamboyantly omnicidal plan of SHODAN’s, often from SHODAN herself, who loves taunting you as much as she hates humans.
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