You then get three training options (of 9 total) that help determine your beginning stats. When you start up a new game, after the backstory is played for you, you pick one of three military groups, one focusing on weaponry, one on technical skills, and one on Psionics. While this creates great tension, it becomes frustrating and annoying, especially as you won’t end up being able to use most of the weapons in the game anyway, due to the light RPG elements.
Enemies echo throughout the lonely corridors of the ship speaking disturbing quotes, as you wade through body parts and blood splatters… And speaking of enemies, the enemies are terrifying and pose a real threat throughout your journey, as ammo and other supplies are incredibly scarce. The story is creepy and is only enhanced by the atmosphere and excellent sound design. Like System Shock before and BioShock after, much of the story is told through audio logs that you can find throughout the ship. It’s up to you to discover what happened on the Von Braun, and combat the Many as well as XERXES’s malfunctioning security systems. Janice Polito guides you to her on the 4th deck of the Von Braun. Due to a malfunction in XERXES, the computer system on the Von Braun, you are woken from your cryo sleep to discover that the place is overrun with human-mutant hybrids known as “the Many” who attempt to convert you into one of them. It is on it’s maiden voyage when it receives a distress signal from somewhere on Tau Ceti V. This time, you play as a generic soldier aboard the Von Braun, the world’s first faster than light ship. System Shock 2 takes place 42 years after the events of the first game in the series, System Shock.
It didn’t sell very well back when it released in 1999, but it was met with critical acclaim, and eventually the main studio behind it, Irrational Games, went on to create the spiritual successor, BioShock. System Shock 2 is renowned as being one of the best cyberpunk games out there.
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