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I have heard that System Shock 1 and 2 are among the best games to be released for PC. It saddens me that I have never played either game.
System Shock 2 is definitely recommended to any fan of BioShock. Honestly, BioShock is just a revamped SS2 with awesome graphics, refined gameplay, and more great ideas. Play SS2 for like an hour, and you may even get a sense of deja vu, were it not for the space setting in SS2.
"Of course, back in those halcyon days, developers didn't need the fascist ramblings of long-dead immigrants to tell a story and SS2's frightening tale of isolation, cybernetic tampering and psychokinetic zombie monkeys should be required playing for anyone enrolled in Destructoid State University."
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System Shock 2 definitely runs on PC, and I still find it and Deus Ex far superior to Bioshock, though I did enjoy Bioshock as well (and have the Collector's Edition). I remember that I read the postmortem on System Shock 2 and it's amazing what a great game it is after all of the problems they had.
SS2 CAN run on XP, but it takes some tweaking. The Looking Glass forums have a few guides on how to try and fix it if you want to look it up.
I think you can fix games like SS2 by going to the task manager, right clicking on it, clicking Set Affinity, and unchecking one of your CPUs. (this has to be done every time)
If that doesn't work, I know there are some instructions for getting the game to work on XP (permanently) hidden in some corner of the interwebs.
There is also a graphics patch for the game somewhere or other that makes it look about 3x better. I highly recommend that if you want to play it again.
If that doesn't work, I know there are some instructions for getting the game to work on XP (permanently) hidden in some corner of the interwebs.
There is also a graphics patch for the game somewhere or other that makes it look about 3x better. I highly recommend that if you want to play it again.
There are XP patches, also as YARLY said you need to only have one processor enabled...however it saved my setting for only SS2 and I never had to mess with it again.
I also had a problem no one else did, even with the codecs the videos would crash, so I just removed them from the folders and the videos would just skip by with no error. You can watch them on your own outside of the game but watch out for spoilers!
I also had a problem no one else did, even with the codecs the videos would crash, so I just removed them from the folders and the videos would just skip by with no error. You can watch them on your own outside of the game but watch out for spoilers!
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