Great reading through all these mesages, will be moving onto SS2 soon, but at the moment, have just, with the help of TTLG forums, got my original Sysyem Shock 1 working in all it's glory on my 2.4ghz XP Pro SP2 machine!!! :) Oh, and by having one of those spanking new Pentium 3 ninja-PCs. This one fixes and rebalances a huge number of anomalies, discrepancies and bugs, all while staying true to the developers intentions.Īs for hugely improved graphics, these can be achieved through the combined use of SHTUP's ( Shock Texture Upgrade Project) high resolution textures and Rebirth's brand new detailed polygons. Having a more stable and beefier sounding game, this should be the moment to reflect on life's intricacies, while simultaneously installing the excellent Straylight mod. Start ( yes, you, dear horror-RPG-FPS fan) with the latest official patch and a rather similar WinXP/2000 fix and only then move on to the much needed sound upgrade, via the SS2 DeepFriedBeer mod. How? By injecting it with the proper mods, add-ons and fixes obviously. Taking into account that the developers won't be easily threatened into producing a nice System Shock 3 ( let alone the publishers.), the only realistic solution for the horror-RPG-FPS fan is to drag System Shock 2 kicking and screaming into 2007. Oh, and WinXP, minor gameplay and sound problems have also managed to creep up. Unfortunately though, what with being almost retro, its graphics have started to age and their late nineties 3D engine simply doesn't look that scary anymore. I mean, it's even got itself a Gamespot retrospective. System Shock 2 is better than Deus EX, more elaborate than any of the Thief games, scarier then Resident Evil and quite frankly more engrossing than the whole porn DVD collection of planet Earth.

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