![]() ![]() You’ll also get the original game as a bonus if you want to play it as originally intended. Thanks to Night Dive Studios, the classic System Shock has finally made it to gog.com as System Shock Enhanced Edition, which features not only a version of the game for higher resolution monitors, but also adds mouselook functionality, remappable keys and a few other tweaks. What mutant two-dimensional sprites lack in creepy kinetic fluidity, they more than make up for in jerking, twitching freakishness-like the stop-motion surreality of a Quay Brothers film, and just as indelible.File this one under “it’s about time!” and then go buy it, NOW. I still have nightmares about supervillain SHODAN's chimerical trans-human horrors, by the way. And then you had its inspired, completely unexpected take on cyberspace: convoluted digital chutes you zipped along like surfing wireframe waterslides, trying to solve quirky geometric puzzles. You had all that self-augmentation bizarreness, like the implants that let you do indoor barrel rolls, a flight-sim-inspired premise based on actual rules of inertia (indoor physics!). Its lack of realtime light sourcing gave it a perpetually dim, 1970s sci-fi flick ambience that ironically complemented its simple but grim 256-color palette. ![]() Glowing wall panels were stippled with crisscross patterns that shimmered parabolically as your perspective changed (an aesthetic unto itself that I miss sometimes). The game had a fascinating pre-Apple-Store-sterile visual vibe, too.
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