System Shock Remake – review on INDIAN

It often happens that with the revival of old games, significant changes occur. And sometimes the changes are so big that the new version doesn’t look like the original anymore, it goes its own way, and players can end up getting frustrated because something they liked about the original is missing. Fortunately, System Shock is a remake that approaches the original with all due respect and dignity. Even with the fact that we can hear the original representative again in the role of the villainous artificial intelligence SHODAN. Terry Brosius.

Fortunately, he is also treated with respect in the visuals. Of course, at first glance, this is the thing that has undergone the biggest changes. And you can see what it is Unreal Engine 4 it’s somewhere else with its variations from the original game’s engine. How would it be in Looking Glass Studios in the nineties, however, I must say that the atmosphere of the game and especially its idea has been preserved. I even often felt like I was playing the original System Shock, only to finally put on the right glasses to play them.

As such, System Shock still sticks to its gritty vision of realism, with an emphasis on the space station’s dark metal corridors and lots of blinking terminals and screens, without feeling dry at the same time. In fact, this is a surprisingly colorful title that does not rely on ultra-realistic models and textures. form of sci-fi images from the 80s and such a combination of digital and analog. In particular, it makes great use of beautiful lighting and modern effects with pixelated textures on some elements. This creates a really exciting combination of something that looks new but at the same time gives you not only a retro feel but also oppressive atmosphere that something is wrong. And it really works great.

Of course, history has undergone somewhat smaller changes. In it, we are transported fifty years into the distant future, when humanity is mining on the rings of Saturn, workers live in orbit, and in space station CITADEL they enhance human bodies a little in their own way. And who wouldn’t want to improve it with an implant, right?

We don’t know exactly what this desire entails, but you just implant you want it so badly that you decided to hack into the mega-corporation network Tri-Optimumto get it. Without going into details, everything sort of stops, forcing you to turn off your ethical inhibitions. COMPLIESyou receive an implant and then wake up from your postoperative sleep right at the CITADEL station.

The world around you is unusually quiet and empty. But you are definitely not alone in this! Crazy SHODAN decided that humanity is a problem that can be eliminated. And you, in turn, came to the conclusion that, on the contrary, SHODAN is a problem that you can get rid of. The exchange of opinions and mutual persuasion on both sides is the rest of the System Shock story in a nutshell.

You will spend more or less the majority of the game passing through this station with the clear goal of getting rid of SHODAN and ideally not dying in the process. As in the case with immersive simulator games as a habit, a few things will help you with this. First of all, weapons and tools that you will gradually find and expand your repertoire of options. Basically, it will help you fight enemies, namely the various robots that continue to populate the station.

But an even greater helper in the game will be your own head. Precisely because it is about immersive simulator title, thinking and tactics will definitely be in order. Exploring the station is not exactly easy. You can easily get lost in it or lose the idea of ​​what you really want or need to do. Careful research, reading various logos or texts, thanks to which you can find out the password to the door, and interaction with the environment will become your daily bread.

Moreover, you need to remember where and where you are going. A great example when you are somewhere far away and would like to replenish lives. So you’re getting married treatment modulebut along the way you will get lost a few times or meet other enemies, so a quick jump for healing can turn into a fight for life.

And while it’s a stressful part of the game, I love how the enemies react to my attacks and that they have some strategies of their own that really make me think about the attacks myself. For example, when you circle around the mobile drill to defeat it, it will sometimes decide to park in the corner. I just didn’t like the balance of individual enemies. It is rather strange that large and powerful robots like “big Dad” they’re easier to kill than that damn sunken mobile drill. He twirls his muzzle and taunts you, turning you into an Emmental with an icy stare. Again and again. Sadist.

But composure and good tactics are not everything. You also have to hope that you have enough weapons and ammo of the right type and that you have worked correctly with the limited inventory. Fortunately, yours will help you in such moments. implantswhich you can use to improve your character.

Under normal circumstances, this can probably be ignored, but here the choice of difficulty has a surprisingly large impact. You can choose from four sub-sections: battles, missions, cyberspace and puzzles. You can always choose between easy, medium and hard. So think carefully about how you combine them. I took the golden mean, which seems to me the most balanced choice. You’ll sweat a bit on logic puzzles and you’ll have a decent amount of enemies in combat. But this can be done in another way. If you set the mission settings to the easiest difficulty, the game will also tell you what you should do next in order to progress. Conversely, on the hardest difficulty, you only have 10 hours to destroy SHODAN, and you will die forever unless you have the recovery chamber activated on a certain floor.