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Wonder how would it feel like to be aboard the first faster-than-light starship, 67 trillion miles away from Earth.
To wake up from cryostasis and have someone tell you immediately that you can't remember past few weeks right away because of the surgery you just underwent, some experimental cybernetics you volunteered for as something went terribly wrong aboard this ship. Now move before you get killed.

Yes, I installed System Shock 2. I had to, since drawing GLaDOS made me think of Shodan and one thing led to another, durr durrr..
I ended up in youtube, watching the SS2 intro and after that I really had no choice.


It's kinda hard for me still to imagine any place lonelier and away from everything than the starship Von Braun near planet Tau Ceti V, 67 trillion miles away. That feeling of isolation combined with the insane screams of the Many hybrids echoing through the empty hallways creates a nice feel of creeping panic for me even today.
Though the graphics are pretty outdated - some hybrids look even ridiculous - you still learn to fear them in game since they tend to be kinda lethal.
The voice acting is great among other sounds, which is important since the audiologs you keep finding around are a huge part of the spooky atmostphere. The files are well written and tend to sound like stuff people could really babble to their audiobooks. A few moments after usually getting killed or otherwise in trouble. I could be even a little surprised that there're no jokes about 'castle aaaaaaaargh..' anywhere :p.

One thing to complain about though. While the wrench you find in the beginning becomes your life-time friend, the shootah-weapons seem to originate from SH: Origins. You need to maintain them constantly just to be able to shoot a few magazines. The ammo is pretty rare so I guess it's just a matter of balance, but even still. What went wrong with the weapons developement in the distant future when the guns are made of cheap plastic?
There's the old trick to haxor the weapon entropy a bit milder and I feel it won't spoil anything too delicate from the game by slightly lowering the gun_degrade_rate from shock.cfg. The hacker just got hacked.

Also, I kinda lawl'd here, check the menu opening into the upper left corner. It should contain the list of available products for replication, but this Replicator is broken. And I think it's apparent why after seeing the bottom line.