It also incorporates role-playing system elements, in which the player can develop skills and traits, such as hacking and psionic abilities. Like System Shock, gameplay consists of first-person combat and exploration. The player assumes the role of a soldier trying to stem the outbreak of a genetic infection that has devastated the ship.
The game takes place on board a starship in a cyberpunk depiction of 2114. The alterations were made when Electronic Arts-who owned the System Shock franchise rights-signed on as publisher. Originally intended to be a standalone title, its story was changed during production into a sequel to the 1994 game System Shock. System Shock 2 is a 1999 action role-playing survival horror video game designed by Ken Levine and co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios. But it seems likely that his experience on that game was a factor in the recent confirmation that his current project, BioShock: Infinite, will not have a multiplayer mode.Action role-playing, first-person shooter, survival horror
System Shock 2 was a brilliant game despite being a bit of a sales bust, so the idea that Levine thinks it could have been that much better if the team hadn’t wasted time and effort on multiplayer is a bit of a surprise. The single player game would have been much, much, much stronger if we had that time back.” “There are a number of people who really enjoyed it, but the amount of time versus the amount of reward for that versus what we could have done with the rest of the game… I don’t think it was a win.
Most developers deny it but in a recent interview with Edge about the making of System Shock 2, Levine admitted that the effort put into creating an online co-op mode was wasted. The most common concern among gamers against the inclusion of multiplayer modes in single-player-focused experiences is that they’re an unnecessary drain on resources that would be better put toward the development of the “real” game. Worst of all, as it turns out, it had a detrimental impact on the single-player game, too. Having three or four people running around in a game designed to be handled by a single person effectively did away with any semblance of challenge, and as I recall it was a bit of a buggy thing, too. The BioShock mastermind says the series’ legendary predecessor would have been “much, much stronger” if the team hadn’t wasted time on multiplayer.ĭid you know that System Shock 2 had a co-op multiplayer mode? It did, tacked on by a post-release patch, and it wasn’t great.
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