System Shock 2: A game that changed the world but failed commercial success

My best friend shared some of his games with me. It was a big bunch of Cd cases on the top of my table. I had some work to do and didn’t checked what games there are. Some days later, oh well it was one of these boring afternoons after school as I wanted to calm down a little bit from my schoolwork. I saw the big tower of cases on my desk again and checked what games he gave to me. On the half way through I’ve read an interesting title. System Shock 2? Didn’t I played a game with a similar title already some years ago? You need to know, it was the year 1999 and I didn’t had access to the world wide web yet. But I did remember! System Shock, the game I always started playing but never finished in all these years since it was too scary for me as a child. Well, maybe this second game might be less scary and more enjoyable. And so I started the installation process. What now follows is a description about my first hours with the game. Very close and very personal!

30 Days of Gaming Challenge Summary

Welcome to my 30 days of gaming challenge of April, 2011. I got introduced to this challenge by ONoesUDidnt‘s blog. I wrote and published 30 articles about 30 different topics the entire month long. Thank you all for reading and I am in hope you had a great time. For all those that missed the challenge, have now the chance to click on each day and to read the topic you want to know more about.

Here are the 30 topics:

Day 1 – Very first video game.
Day 2 – Your favorite character.
Day 3 – A game that is underrated.
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game.
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 – Most annoying character.
Day 7 – Favorite game couple.
Day 8 – Best soundtrack.
Day 9 – Saddest game scene.
Day 10 – Best gameplay.
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 – A game everyone should play.
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 – Favorite genre.
Day 21 – Game with the best story.
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 – Favorite classic game.
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 – Best voice acting.
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 – Favorite game developer.
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time.

Final Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time

Read System Shock 2: A game that changed the world but failed commercial success for this article.

Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving

Honestly, the game I thought I wouldn’t like but ended up loving is one of the greatest franchises of the 90s and later with an female protagonist. The true story of me with the game begins with part 2 of the franchise, which I purchased for a very low prince at the supermarket. As I put the game into my CD-ROM drive and installed it on my computer, I never expected it to be an endless week long experience of gaming. I loved the game so much that I had to buy the first part of it as soon as I found it. I got the directors cut for Tomb Raider on PC and started playing.

Day 28 – Favorite game developer

Read my article: Looking Glass Studios: Don’t forget to look through the looking glass! instead.

Day 27 – Most epic scene ever

There is one game that deserves the word epic more than others: God of War. I had my most epic scene ever of the year 2010 in God of War 3. Shit, No! The entire game is my most epic scene ever. TheOneAndOnlyDANTE arranged the battle of Kratos vs. Hercules in a very nice video. Enjoy!

Day 26 – Best voice acting

Voice acting in video games is a thing that wasn’t very popular over the years but the quality and effort of voice actors for virtual characters increased very well with every decade that gone by. Especially games of the early 90s suffered by the limited technology tru soundcards for computers or soundchips for consoles. If you’re new to gaming, then you may laugh about the fact that Duke Nukem’s “I’m Back” from 1993 for example, was a big hit for some gamers ears. Nothing compared to the badly digitalized sentences of Wolfenstein 3D guards one year earlier that made gamers smile and laugh instead. You see that voice acting in early video games got a very different quality, depending on companies and their posibilities or knowledge of sound design. Enough talk about the past, for this article I have picked a more modern generation of video gaming at the end of the 90s.

Day 25 – A game you plan on playing

There are two games I plan on playing. I kept this two games for an entire year and I still don’t got the money or motivation to buy both. Thats the curse I have: I wait until games I wish to play are available for a very low price before I get my hands on them. But I guess, with the start of my new full time job, I have the ability to buy games a bit earlier now.

Day 24 – Favorite classic game

My favorite classic game? You better read my Review about it. ;)

Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style

My game with the best graphics or art style is a remake of a very successful first part of a franchise that perfected the survival horror genre introduced by Alone in Dark three years later in 1995. In 2002, Nintendo and Capcom signed a contract for three exclusive titles for Nintendo’s new gaming system the Nintendo Gamecube. Two of these games, the first with the additional title Zero and the one with the number 4 in it’s name are both good games, but never reached the depth of the third exclusive title for the system. As I played Resident Evil for Gamecube, I was overwhelmed by it’s look. It really locked better as I have expected. It looks better than any screen shot or video on the internet ever can deliver.