Immediately Polito was back on my case, both congratulating me on not dying but also insulting my speed and lack of general intelligence. Obviously it isn’t, but for a game that is largely linear in how the story develops and how you explore the ship, there is always a renewed sense of the unknown as you quickly try and find a somewhere that isn’t rapidly being vented into space.Īfter crawling out of the a-typical ventilation shaft found in every first-person videogame, and stumbling through a couple of doors, I found myself in a place of relative safety. This is how every game starts in System Shock 2, and each time it feels like a brand new beginning. OAfter my last diary entry I had just been given a royal dressing down by Dr Janice Polito, seconds after being vomited out of a cryostasis unit, and, after picking up the huge yellow wrench in front of me, scurried out of the decompressing cryostasis area. Run down the corridor, hang left, take the next right… shit, security camera… double back. “They see you! Run…RUN!!!” I don’t need telling twice – time to Foxtrot Oscar.

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