System Shock 2 is a 1999 first-person horror Immersiv Sim, co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios. The game's setting is on board a starship in a cyberpunk world. Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios Powers/Skills. Josh Randall, Ramin Djawadi, Eric Brosius When a Hack is attempted, a mini interface with grid of green nodes appears ; the player must connect three in a row to succeed. A few months into the journey the Soldier awakens in a cryo-tube on the Von Braun with amnesia due to a computer malfunction. 1 Trading Cards 2 Foil Cards 3 Badges 4 Booster Pack 5 Emoticons 6 Profile Backgrounds 7 Card Artwork There is a strong modding community built up around this game. He is confronted by SHODAN, a malevolent Artificial Intelligence that devastated Citadel Station in the previous game. System Shock by Looking Glass Studios was a groundbreaking First-Person Shooter with Survival Horror and RPG Elements set in a Cyberpunk future. Various weapons can be found throughout the game, they are classified as Standard (Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle), Energy, Heavy and Exotic (alien) Weapons. The eggs infect the rescue team and integrate them into an alien communion that calls itself the Many. A third game in the franchise, titled System Shock 3, was announced in 2015. Otherwise, the game ends and progress must be resumed from a save point. Each branch of service gives the player a set of starting bonuses in certain skills, though he may thereafter freely develop himself as he pleases. Writers 28,818 Pages. Ken Levine It was on a Friday night—December 14, to be exact—that I decided to play System Shock 2. Originally intended to be a standalone title, its story was changed during production into a sequel to the 1994 game System Shock. The infestation eventually overtakes both ships. The player can Hack devices such as Keypads to gain access to various areas, or Replicators to reduce their prices. There are 5 cards in the series, and you'll receive 3 cards at random for purchasing and playing the game. System Shock 2 is the sequel to System Shock. The pod crash-landed in the planet Tau Ceti V, and while SHODAN entered a state of hibernation, the organism in the pod quickly evolved beyond her control into a hive-mind parasite known as The Many. Most of these properties are the same as the values used by Hard difficulty, including Cybernetic Module costs at Cybernetic Upgrade Units and maximum health as determined by Endurance. The System Shock 2 news, media, and information headquarters; serving the gaming community will all the latest information on the sequal to one of the best games of all time. A useful tool for those who don't own Enhanced Edition. SHODAN congratulates the protagonist and informs him of her intentions to merge real space and cyberspace by subverting the reality-altering mechanics of the Von Braun's Faster-Than-Light drive. The 2000 game Deus Ex (produced and directed by Spector) and the 2007 game BioShock are spiritual successors to the two games. System Shock 2 - Nightdive Studios Trailer. Category:System Shock 2 | Steam Trading Cards Wiki | Fandom. BAYLISS.png 58 × 84; 4 KB. Add new page. It wasn't exactly a smashing success in sales, but it produced a sequel that was probably one of the best FPSes in history and spawned one of the most memorable villains in all of video games. Backstory is explained progressively through the acquisition of Audio Logs and encounters with ghostly apparitions. Rage attacks. Platforms AMANPOUR.png 58 × 84; 4 KB. System Shock 2 It was originally designed as a standalone title (Junction Point) with no relation to the previous game. As it turned out, when the hacker thwarted one of SHODAN's plans, he ejected a garden grove pod, which contained part of SHODAN's components and a biological experiment. Release For example, organic enemies are vulnerable to Anti-Personnel Rounds, while mechanical foes are weak against Armor-Piercing Bulletss.