He’ll let you live and even throw in a military grade neural interface in exchange for a favor: removing the ethical constraints on the SHODAN AI at Citadel Station.Ĭitadel is also in space, a TriOptimum castle of pressurized space age materials and other things that they don’t want Earth to know about. Diego, one of TriOptimum’s execs, decides to cut you a deal. You play a hacker that has gone a little too far in your poking around and TriOptimum, a corporate juggernaut whose toes you had stepped on, has come knocking on your door to politely ask you to stop with a gun to your head. System Shock took us to the future in the year 2072. This was a “thinking man’s” shooter, a refrain that members of the team such as Spector and Church would go on to repeat with Deus Ex years later at Ion Storm. It was unlike any first-person shooter that was out at the time, such as Doom 2, and like the Ultima Underworlds before it, embraced the perspective to deliver a gripping sci-fi story filled with action, thrills, and even a few scares. Produced by Warren Spector and led by Doug Church and members of their team that had cracked their coding knuckles over Ultima Underworld at Looking Glass, System Shock would go on to become one of the best games that anyone had ever played. In the year that saw Wing Commander III redefine the way stories were told in gaming following hard on the heels of the success paved by Ultima Underworld and its sequel, Origin and developer, Looking Glass Studios, would also introduce the world to another game that pushed the first-person genre past the bleeding edge. Seeing Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs on their E3 feed made me think of another cyberpunk-like title back in the day.
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