![]() ![]() Positive-I personally love this game, but I'm mature enough to handle the content. Horrific nightmare turned into a PC game. Overall: Excellent gameplay for what it is, which is essentially a (blasphemous or not, considering how you see it). God, some reworked Biblical references, a church with an upside cross ![]() Thief series (or Ultima Underworld series if you're old enough to It's closest comparison is Deus Ex, after that the Lots of fun, it's essentiallyĪn intellectual's FPS. Gameplay: Excellent, incredible, fantastic. You though Half-Life was good, you haven't seen anything. Originality: Incredible, not so much in the story as in the execution. The atmosphere is one of death and hopelessness Games, but not quite as violent as some R rated films.Īmbience: Heavy and dark. Blood, mutilation, torture abound, more so than most Swearing: Mild overall not much in the game with the exception of a A quality game hampered by some of its content and overtones I personally found the game more offensive than “Quake” or “Unreal”, but not as much as any “ Grand Theft Auto” game. In conclusion though, I can't really recommend this game to fellow Christians, maybe unless you're mature in your faith and are open minded, and that's a definite maybe. If you're a budding game developer, this game would be a great place to look for ideas and examples of a quality gaming experience. This is a glimpse of how games of the future will likely be, or at least in my opinion should be. The story line is presented brilliantly, and character development is unbelievably good for a computer game. No sexual or occult activity is displayed, which is why I've given the game a Christian Rating of 2 rather than 1. Which is a shame because the actual gameplay mechanics, like "Deus Ex", are brilliant for those of us that like games a bit more intellectually challenging than say “ Unreal Tournament” or “Quake”. I can list a few reasons: ghosts, blasphemy, suicide, swearing, extreme violence, drugs, decaying corpses lying all over the place are all depicted in detail. In a nutshell: wake up, follow instructions, kill everything and solve the mystery.Īs I mentioned earlier, Christians will have trouble with this game. You however are not discovered and upon waking must find out what happened, and destroy the responsible bad guys. Aliens take over, all the crew is slaughtered and the AI running the ship goes berserk (ala 2001: A Space Odyssey). You are put into hypersleep for six months and while you're asleep, all hell breaks loose. This starship is capable of travelling faster than the speed of light and is the first manned spacecraft to explore beyond our solar system. I will attempt to explain how the game's plot goes: you are a soldier of a futuristic military force known as the UNN, and accept a mission to go onboard the maiden flight of mankind's latest technological achievement: a starship called the 'Von Braun'. It's a much more sophisticated game than titles such as " Aliens vs Predator", " Resident Evil", "Hexen II", etc. ![]() The atmosphere portrayed within this game is incredibly tense and has a creepy, somewhat disturbing ambience to it. Like the “Alien” movies which I enjoyed despite Hollywood's standard swearing and violence, this game contains a similarly moody feel but also has a lot of content Christians will find harder to stomach (I'll explain more later). This game, unfortunately, will be no exception. The game is an RPG/FPS hybrid, two genres that Christians often have trouble with. If you're familiar with the “Alien” series of movies and have played the hit PC game " Deus Ex", you already have a good idea of what to expect. The game has a rating (in Australia/New Zealand) of MA-Restricted and trust me, is not for those under 16 years of age. " System Shock 2" is the official sequel to 1994's cult-classic PC game “System Shock” and was released by Electronic Arts in late 1999. System Requirements: Pentium 200+, 64MB RAM, 3D Video Card ![]()
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