Reinstall: System Shock 2
System Shock 2 comes from a golden age of PC gaming: after true 3D engines had arrived, but before the all-action shooter had shown the world the commercially safe thing to do with them. No one really knew what they were doing, so games were risky and experimental, but they also looked good. Not realistic, but believable. Once the games industry started making everything out of polygons, it started making games that would last forever.
Shock 2 is a sci-fi survival first-person action RPG, which is just a list of my favourite words. We can’t claim they don’t make them like that anymore, because they’ve made two like that in the last three years and they’re working on a third (BioShocks 1, 2 and Infinite). But they don’t make them quite like this anymore.
