System Shock 2

Description

In the year 2114, forty-two years after the events detailed in System Shock, a soldier joins the military organization Unified National Nominate (UNN) and is given the number G65434-2. Shortly after this, he is assigned to the military space ship Rickenbacker. System Shock takes place in the year 2114. The Von Braun is a prototype spaceship designed to travel faster than the speed of light, and it is this ship's mission to accompany it on its inaugural journey. The next thing the soldier can remember is waking up in a cryo-tube on the Von Braun. This is the last thing the soldier can recall. It would appear that both ships were infected with something so horrific that practically the entirety of the crew was either killed or transformed into monsters. The sole human being alive makes touch with the soldier and reveals that she is the only one to have survived. His first assignment is to meet up with this woman, and in order to do so, he will have to travel through the hallways of the ghost ship, which are plagued with monsters.

First-person shooter and role-playing game elements are combined in System Shock 2, creating a unique gameplay experience. The player has the option of selecting a profession for the protagonist to pursue within the UNN when the game first begins. This decision bestows enhancements upon the protagonist's fundamental abilities. Marines are experts in warfare, Navy officials have the ability to repair weapons and hack computer terminals, and OSA operatives might start the game with psychic abilities. In spite of this initial decision, the player has the option to learn any of these skills as the game develops by spending cybermodules earned to grow the main character in a manner similar to that of a role-playing game (RPG).

As the hero travels through the halls of Von Braun, he will have to gather a variety of things, perform quests, and avoid death at the hands of deadly creatures and robots along the route in order to unlock new regions and advance the story. The primary objective of the game is to avoid death rather than to vanquish its foes; as a result, the player may frequently find themselves outmatched by the game's protagonist, and new foes may surface in previously visited locations.

Combat is handled in a first-person shooter fashion, with both ranged and close-quarters options available. The ranged weapons have the ability to fire in two separate firing modes and can accept a variety of various types of ammunition, each of which is effective against a certain class of enemies. However, ranged weapons quickly become less effective as the player character employs them, and they will eventually become unusable if they are used for an extended period of time.

The hero's life can be saved by healing objects such as medical hypos and medikits, while other things can protect him from radiation, save him from poisoning, or temporarily improve his attributes. As long as their batteries have enough life left in them, the soldier will be able to acquire armor to wear and implants that will enhance his talents. There are also various alien items that the player needs to research (which typically entails collecting appropriate chemicals in the ship's chemical supplies); researching weapons and items enables the player to utilize them, while researching the organs of adversaries enables the player to cause greater damage to them.

Items can be acquired through "matter replicators" for the in-game currency known as nanites, in addition to the possibility of discovering them laying around. Nanites can also be utilized for cybernetic activities (such as hacking electronic systems), fixing broken weapons and enhancing them, healing the protagonist on surgery tables, and resurrecting him in unique chambers that can be located on the majority of levels after he has died.

You can either find cybermodules through exploration or get them as a reward for successfully fulfilling goals. The player can utilize them to improve the traits of the main character, including his strength, agility, and endurance, as well as his cybernetics and weapon skills. Psionic powers can also be obtained in this manner. The protagonist's psi powers enable them to do things like move objects from a distance, stun their opponents, become invisible, and so on. It is necessary to locate a unique "psi amplifier" in order to make use of them, and the protagonist must waste "psi points" whenever he makes use of a psi power.

As was the case with the first System Shock, a significant portion of the game's backstory is unearthed through the discovery of messages that were left behind by crew members before they were consumed by the unknown infection.