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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
That's it, just get Blizzard's games and Command & Conquer and you can close the wishlist section.

Now if only CD Projekt would somehow get the rights to SS and make SS3.... A man can dream *tears*.
Posted September 22, 2015
Definately not my type of game, but it is a classic. One of the most wishlisted games of all time and it's amazing gog managed to get the rights to bring it in here for GOG. I hope to see many happy faces.
Posted September 22, 2015
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JudasIscariot: The Enhanced Edition gets rid of a lot of the 90's clunkiness regarding the UI so it's like a brand new game now :)

In any case, the first System Shock has tons of secret doors so it would behoove you to look for them like you would in an old-school shooter, read the logs for clues, and check your mini-map :)

Also, watch out for berserk patches :)
Is the enhanced edition a renaming of the portable version or has ND added something of their own?
Posted September 22, 2015
What a pleasant surprise on the Tuesday morning.
Instabuy.
Posted September 22, 2015
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HiPhish: Mac- and Linux version when?
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mk47at: Probably never. The link that Judas posted makes it sound like it is based on System Shock Loader, which means that it will only work on Windows 7 or later. :-(
ftfy :-/

I'll buy when it's available for Linux (=truly DRM-free) or at least WinXP, which probably won't happen.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted September 22, 2015
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javihyuga: Is the enhanced edition a renaming of the portable version or has ND added something of their own?
Here.
Post edited September 22, 2015 by Grargar
Posted September 22, 2015
Memories man. Played this when I was 11 and got nightmares for weeks, awesome game all around. Funnily enough, when I tried the game years later (actually, shortly after GOG released the sequel) it was only then that I found the interface clunky. As a kid you didn't really have that capacity to whine about things like you do now. Modern games have ruined me :P

I'll give the Enhanced Edition a go since I've already gone through the game once with the original clunky UI. Does this version have voice acting? I only had the floppy version, being a poor, poor boy with a crappy 486 back in the day :(
Posted September 22, 2015
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mk47at: Probably never. The link that Judas posted makes it sound like it is based on System Shock Loader, which means that it will only work on Windows 7 or later. :-(
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Klumpen0815: ftfy :-/

I'll buy when it's available for Linux or at least WinXP, which probably won't happen.
Oh. Sorry about that. You're right. It's even worse than Windows only. But there is still the posibilty that it could work on older Windows version if they used another compiler.

Edit: spelling.

Edit2: Is anyone adventurous enough to test if it is at least compatible with Wine?
Post edited September 22, 2015 by mk47at
Posted September 22, 2015
Hooray! This is one I've been waiting for since GOG first opened. This is one of my favourite games of all time. If only it had better resolution and a mouselook like SS2 - oh wait! :D

This is based on the CD version with voices, right? I had the text-only version back in the day.
Posted September 22, 2015
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GOG.com: (...)
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. Check out just a sample of the Enhanced and Classic differences right here.
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Well, that result really is a difference! Congrats@NigthDive and thanks for providing that rerelease@GOG!
Posted September 22, 2015
Yipee!
Posted September 22, 2015
Awesome stuff. First instabuy for me for a while.
Posted September 22, 2015
EDIT: Crappy internet ultra multiple post
Post edited September 22, 2015 by javihyuga
Posted September 22, 2015
Very cool. I'm looking forward playing the EE. :)
Posted September 22, 2015
So want this.
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