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Posted September 22, 2015
L-look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you search for your wallet. How fast can you purchase a perfect, immortal game?




<span class="bold">System Shock</span>, the breakthrough FPS/RPG hybrid - one of the most influential video games ever produced - is back and enhanced, premiering DRM-free on GOG.com. Get 20% off the title, or 40% off if you already own System Shock 2.


On release, System Shock forever changed the face of action gaming - it ushered an era of storytelling, choices, and RPG elements unlike ever before - directly influencing all-time classics like Deus Ex and Bioshock.
Today, the legend returns in better shape than ever.
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System Shock: Enhanced Edition now comes with official support for resolutions up to 1024x768 (compared to the original 640x480), and a native 854x480 widescreen mode. Gameplay is streamlined with a toggleable mouselook mode, including more intuitive inventory and item management. Combined with assorted bug-fixes and remappable controls, System Shock is now truly enhanced. Still, some gaming experiences are truly worth preserving, so you can also return to the authentic 90's gameplay with System Shock: Classic - ready for modern systems, completely unaltered in all other aspects, and available in both the CD and Floppy editions!



See the System Shock Enhanced Edition trailer:

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Reset the system in <span class="bold">System Shock</span> - Enhanced Edition and Classic available in a single package, with a 40% discount for all System Shock 2 owners on GOG.com - and 20% off for everyone else. The discounted offer will last until Tuesday, September 29, 6:59 AM GMT.





Stream watch:
Join Stephen Kick (founder and CEO of Night Dive Studios), Daniel Grayshon (Lead Technician in charge of QA at Night Dive Studios) and Paul Neurath (creative Director at Looking Glass Studios, and industry veteran credited on System Shock 2, Thief, Neverwinter Nights and more) for an in-depth, roundtable discussion on the System Shock phenomenon and its many influences in game design to date - on Twitch.tv/GOGcom - September 23, 6:00 PM CET, 4:00 PM GMT, 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 PM EDT.
Posted September 22, 2015
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Bocze: Classic Edition has two shortcuts in Start menu - one for CD and one for floppy version.
Enhanced Edition has a separate installer and one shortcut in your Start menu. :)
Thanks. My reading comprehension sucks this morning.
Posted September 22, 2015
So GOG finally got the first System Shock! So does this game only use a glide wrapper, or is there an OpenGL/DirectX mode to use instead?
Posted September 22, 2015
Odd that the enhanced version installer is 96MB, while the classic version installer is 364MB. Size doesn't matter blaa blaa blaa, but still. The price per megabyte ratio of the classic version is better than the enhanced version.
Posted September 22, 2015
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IronArcturus: So GOG finally got the first System Shock! So does this game only use a glide wrapper, or is there an OpenGL/DirectX mode to use instead?
do you really ask, if night dive would spend some money to provide an own solution?
Posted September 22, 2015
Nice! I've yet to play SS1 so this is very much a welcomed release :D
Posted September 22, 2015
Another series complete...

Scored it, and thanks GOG :)

Hope some day you can score the Bioshocks!
Posted September 22, 2015
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Strijkbout: (and butchering it into a standard Doomclone in the process)
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Dev_Chand: I take it you don't like the mouselook mod?
No I don't like it.

It completely changes the game, instead of precalculating every move you can just go in anywhere and shoot the crap out of everything.
The only thing that maybe could use improvement are the control of the cyberspace sections but because of the wireframe nature of the levels it's more the aesthetics that are problematic than the controls IMO.

LGR actually had a similar oppinion about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXrlsiPTQS4
Posted September 22, 2015
As usual, tons of insta-nostalgia reviews that try to tell us how great a game is that most of us already know anyway in its original version.
What I'd like to know is: Has anyone already thoroughly tested this new enhanced version? I'm very interested in this one because I tried replaying vanilla SS about 8 years ago and the controls didn't age well, at all.

Anyway, obligatory wishlist is obligatory :)
Posted September 22, 2015
Hail SHODAN!!!

You did it, GOG, thank you so much. And you included all the enhancements, such as the higher resolutions and blessed mouselook. This is a true gem and I'm glad to purchase it once again. It will sit in honour on my GOG shelf, alongside the multiple copies I already own on CD.
Posted September 22, 2015
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awalterj: As usual, tons of insta-nostalgia reviews that try to tell us how great a game is that most of us already know anyway in its original version.
What I'd like to know is: Has anyone already thoroughly tested this new enhanced version? I'm very interested in this one because I tried replaying vanilla SS about 8 years ago and the controls didn't age well, at all.

Anyway, obligatory wishlist is obligatory :)
It comes with the mouselook mod and remappable controls, so both should help in that regard I think.

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Strijkbout: No I don't like it.

It completely changes the game, instead of precalculating every move you can just go in anywhere and shoot the crap out of everything.
The only thing that maybe could use improvement are the control of the cyberspace sections but because of the wireframe nature of the levels it's more the aesthetics that are problematic than the controls IMO.

LGR actually had a similar oppinion about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXrlsiPTQS4
Hmm.. what do you think about the rest of the changes in the enhanced edition? By the way, neither it nor the mouselook mod were made by Kolya, they were both made by a modder who worked with Night Dive for the release. Kolya merely hosted the earlier versions of the mouselook mod, along with several other mods and System Shock 1 on his website.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Dev_Chand
Posted September 22, 2015
Any confirmation if this will run on anything lower than the minimum specs? It feels really weird not being able to run SS1 on my "old junker" that I usually use to run my GOG stuff. And I run System Shock Portable on it.

In fact the specs are way higher than SS2. o.O
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Projectsonic
Posted September 22, 2015
great news! thanks
Posted September 22, 2015
I don't know why, but I instantly bought this game. Without even thinking about it!
THANKS GOG PEOPLE! Wohoo!
Posted September 22, 2015
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IronArcturus: So GOG finally got the first System Shock! So does this game only use a glide wrapper, or is there an OpenGL/DirectX mode to use instead?
The Voodoo came out in 1996. System Shock came out in 1994. It predates widespread consumer 3D; software rendering only.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by zorach
Posted September 22, 2015
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NightDiveStudios: This is not the same as System Shock Portable, it's completely different :)
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tfishell: Well done you and GOG! :) Please keep working on bringing "Strife" and "Noctropolis" here!
Both of those games look pretty cool! Here are [url=http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/noctropolis]wishlists!
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