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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

- Higher resolution support: up to 1024x768, and 854x480 widescreen mode.
- Mouselook support added.
- Remappable keys with three profiles to choose from: original controls, custom controls, and lefthanded controls.
- Some original game bugs fixed.
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Crosmando: Lol, did Night Dive really just repackage System Shock Portable as "System Shock Enhanced Edition", just after they shut down the SSP project?
This I want to know. anyone in SSP project can verify the code?
Post edited September 22, 2015 by dick1982
Posted September 22, 2015
YES, YES, YES!!!

Thank you GOG/NDS, I fucking love this game.

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tinyE: I was being silly people!!!! :P

On a serious note, as someone who has never played #1 should I go vanilla or dive into the Enhanced Version?

I just hope what the folks in here say is true: if I found #2 disappointing (which I did) then #1 should be amazing because it is all around a much better game.
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thejimz: Like I said on the other page, definitely play vanilla. The updated version is just awful IMO. It ruins the tone and pace of the game, and almost turns SS1 into some kind of bastardized shooter. The game's a slow-paced Ultima Underworld successor, half-RPG and half-action.
You couldn't be more wrong. The game is damn near unplayable without the mouselook.

Turning like a lemon while enemies rip you to shreds is just frustrating.

People, play the enhanced edition.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Matthew94
Posted September 22, 2015
Nice, so the rumors were through indeed. Wishlisted.
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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thejimz: For people who've played SSP but not SSEE, could you explain some of the differences? You've got me really curious. :)
Yeah, I'd like to know too.
Posted September 22, 2015
Wow, what a surprise. I-i-i-i-i-i-insta-buy!
Posted September 22, 2015
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Matthew94: YES, YES, YES!!!

Thank you GOG/NDS, I fucking love this game.

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thejimz: Like I said on the other page, definitely play vanilla. The updated version is just awful IMO. It ruins the tone and pace of the game, and almost turns SS1 into some kind of bastardized shooter. The game's a slow-paced Ultima Underworld successor, half-RPG and half-action.
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Matthew94: You couldn't be more wrong. The game is damn near unplayable without the mouselook.

Turning like a lemon while enemies rip you to shreds is just frustrating.

People, play the enhanced edition.
Especially when SHODAN drops some dudes right next to you at certain times :P
Posted September 22, 2015
Congratulations to GOG for getting this game here! It's cool to see that you get both the Enhanced and Classic versions together. I hope everyone has a great time!
Posted September 22, 2015
WHOA! When did it happen? Nice release GOG - a bit sad that enhanced edition doesn't work on XP but as the classic version is included all I can say is: "Instabuy as I get home tonight" :-)
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Perhaps the pacing was, more or less, determined by the interface limitations of the time?
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thejimz: I'd agree with that, actually! But the version with the clunky interface is the one that Looking Glass played, balanced and released. They had to work around the interface and adjust the game accordingly (obstacles, spacing of monsters, combat, look-behind-you moments, etc.), which is why I'm skeptical of updated versions--once you start changing the UI, you change what the whole game was originally balanced/paced to accommodate. IMO you end up with a totally different experience.

That said, I'm a purist when it comes to old games, and I'd rather play an old clunker than a slick remake any day. (The version of Wasteland on GOG has been updated too much for me, LOL.) If there's anyone who can only enjoy SS1 in the Enhanced Edition, more power to them as long as they buy it and support GOG!! :) Thank you guys for getting this classic.
Looks like my post got saved to the wrong page. Here's a bump for it.
Posted September 22, 2015
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thejimz: For people who've played SSP but not SSEE, could you explain some of the differences? You've got me really curious. :)
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Matthew94: Yeah, I'd like to know too.
Let voodoo47 tell you here:

https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=8030.0 :)
Posted September 22, 2015
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Matthew94: Yeah, I'd like to know too.
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JudasIscariot: Let voodoo47 tell you here:

https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=8030.0 :)
Many thanks.

So it's a mix of existing effort and a swath of new fixes then.

It was cool of them to involve the modders as they've been at that for ages and were the only ones keeping it playable.
Posted September 22, 2015
Wow, that was fast. I read about ND's plans regarding the first System Shock a few weeks back and figured that it would take a while until release. Sometimes it's good to be wrong. :)

And another series completed. 2015 has been an awesome year around here.
Posted September 22, 2015
Nice release!
Posted September 22, 2015
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thejimz: I'm a purist when it comes to old games, and I'd rather play an old clunker than a slick remake any day.
I feel the same.
If you're an old gamer, a weird (but not bad) UI won't a big problem.
Posted September 22, 2015
Awesome! might pick it up. I was always put off by the controls hopefully they fixed this Up.
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