Exactly the same events take place, but they've been rejigged. The System Shock remake begins in much the same way as 1994's original game. Months pass by and you've woken up, still on the Citadel, but this time the humans have turned into bloodthirsty mutants, killer robots and cyborgs attack with a vengeance, and my beloved SHODAN runs the whole bleak party. You get back your freedom plus a cool cybernetic implant, and the megacorp executive who's in charge of the operation gets to do evil things with the new ethically unconstrained station. As a captured hacker onboard the Citadel space station, you've been asked to remove the 'ethical constraints' from the station's artificial intelligence (that's SHODAN) in an obviously shady exchange.

A remake that closely follows the original classic, with a slightly different overall effect.Īs a newcomer to System Shock, I'd like to take a moment and declare my undying love for SHODAN, aka Sentient Hyper-Optimised Data Access Network, aka the murderous AI villain who engulfs the entire remake.

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