![]() To aid you, you’ll have the option to specialise in a number of Neuromods-powers derived from the Typhon, which let you do things like fire super-heated plasma, or transform into random objects, ranging from innocuous cups to gun turrets at higher levels. It’s up to you, Morgan Yu, to try and bring things back under some semblance of control, while continuing to figure out the motives of the Typhon. Then, much like in System Shock, everything goes wrong, as just about everyone aboard the Talos-1 gets killed when the mysterious shape-shifting alien species known as the Typhon break containment. Talos-1’s lavish art design-a bit Deco, a bit 60s American, a bit Soviet-makes it appear solid, unshakeable like a cosmic pyramid of the future. ![]() Prey’s setting is the Talos-1 space station-a shining monument to scientific utopia a symbol of a brave new world in which nations set aside their paltry Earthly differences in pursuit of a greater understanding of the universe by studying the mysterious Typhon life-form. ![]() That game is 2017’s Prey, made by Arkane Studios, which to me is one of the most underrated and too easily forgotten games of recent memory. ![]() Your mileage will vary depending whether you find yourself frustrated by the mazey map design and the obscure puzzles, or whether you consider those kinds of things part of its anachronistic charm.īut if you’re curious about the immersive sim genre that the original System Shock helped spawn, yet the remake’s mixed reception has given you pause, then rest assured that there’s a game out there that serves as a beautiful homage to System Shock while feeling decidedly more modern, glossy, and (in my opinion) fun than Nightdive’s effort. It’s clearly a labour of love for Nightdive Studios, and in some ways that love’s a little bit too apparent as they decided to basically leave the remake as obscure and fiddly as the original 1992 game.ĭon’t just take my word for it: the consensus on the remake is pretty divided, with the game averaging 75 on Metacritic at the time of writing, with a lot of scores coming in quite a ways above and below that. The long-awaited and much-delayed remake of System Shock came out this week, and it’s been a mixed old bag for me (with the emphasis on ‘old’ there). ![]()
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