System Shock 2

System Shock 2 both retains the best attributes of its predecessor and provides a fresh experience in its own right.

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News & Features

  • Q&A: Irrational's Ken Levine on the Take-Two takeover

    Irreverent head of recently purchased developer sounds off on the deal, BioShock, VUG, and the future.

    • Posted Jan 12, 2006 1:59 pm PT
  • EA files System Shock trademark

    Beloved series' developer may have moved on, but its publisher might still have designs on the franchise.

    • Posted Jan 9, 2006 5:14 pm PT
  • The Greatest Games of All Time: System Shock 2

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    Long before Grand Theft Auto established the video game sandbox, before "emergent gameplay" was an industrywide buzzword, upstart developer Irrational Games married first-person action akin to that of Doom and Half-Life with rich, open-ended character development and a masterfully crafted, horror-tinged storyline to create System Shock 2.

    • Posted Aug 12, 2005 6:28 pm PT

Latest GameSpot Updates

Type Headline Date
News Q&A: Irrational's Ken Levine on the Take-Two takeover Jan 12, 2006
News EA files System Shock trademark Jan 9, 2006
Feature The Greatest Games of All Time: System Shock 2 Aug 12, 2005
Screens 24 new screens Jul 25, 2005
Feature System Shock 2 Retrospective Oct 7, 2004
Movie System Shock 2 Retrospective Interview Oct 7, 2004
Feature TenSpot Readers' Choice: Top Ten Villains Sep 3, 1999
Review System Shock 2 Review Aug 25, 1999
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  • System Shock Ending

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    System Shock ending. After defeting SHODAN, the hacker is offered a job at TriOptimum, but he declines and continues his life as a hacker, with his spanking new neural implant.

    • Posted Jun 25, 2008
      by dark_being | 0'52" | 1,010 Views
  • Video review: System Shock 2

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    My video review of System Shock 2.

    • Posted Apr 3, 2008
      by mfsa | 9'55" | 1,038 Views

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  • System Shock 2 7

    Some gamplay screenshots of the classic System Shock 2, finnished the game again recently (2008), still one of the best FPS's ever... pitty Bioshock didn't come close...

  • System Shock 2 6

    Some gamplay screenshots of the classic System Shock 2, finnished the game again recently (2008), still one of the best FPS's ever... pitty Bioshock didn't come close...

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