Polito, another survivor, and she sends you on a series of missions to weaken the enemy and attempt to meet up with her. Right from the start you're contacted by Dr. For this play through, I joined the navy and focused on Hacking computer equipment and security systems, while also becoming an expert in Standard weapons with a medium prificancy in Energy weapons. In the beginning of the game, you can choose to be a Marine (combat focused), a Navy recruit (tech focused), or an OSA operative (psionic focused), and as the game progresses in true RPG fashion, you can enhance the stats and skills of your character and purchase items from Replicators. Hybrids (Zombies) now roam the halls of the ship wielding pipes and Shotguns, l ab Monkeys run loose with psionic abilities, and the ship's AI, Xerxes, has been corrupted and is attempted to defeat you at every turn. You quickly come to learn that things aren't good at all, and that the Van Braun has been taken over by some kind of alien force. You are a soldier serving aboard Earth's first faster-than-light vessel, the Van Braun, and you awake from cryo with cybernetic implants through out your body and no recollection of what's happened since you boarded the vessel. System Shock 2 is an FPS/RPG focused on horror/survival. Released in August of 1999, System Shock 2 is still a great and addictive game today, which is another reason I'm looking forward to BioShock, to see if Irrational Games can once more create that magic. Since I haven't played through it since college, I don't know how many times I've gone through the game, but I think it's somewhere around eight times. This past Saturday morning, I finished off System Shock 2.
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