Avis sur System Shock

Chef d'oeuvre ! Mais comment ai-je pu passer à côté du premier System Shock à l'époque ?! Il y a là tout ce que j'aime : une histoire de déroulant dans l'espace, de la science-fiction, une vue FPS ultra immersive, une exploration typée dungeon-crawler, et une ambiance incroyable. Le scénario ayant pour thème le combat contre une IA qui est devenue folle dans une station spaciale fantôme est fantastique, et très bien mis en scène. Mille mercis au studio Nightdive de nous avoir fait un remake de ce jeu !! Maintenant, je n'ai qu'une hâte, jouer à la suite.

10/10, worth it's money, even without a discount. This is something else. I was aware of the cyberpunk genre through Blade Runner films and Deus Ex 2000, a game two years older than me that I have enjoyed playing a lot, but loved it more for it's philosophical and political message rather than for its aesthetic. This game however is all about the classic idea that I've always had of 80s retrofuturistic neon-lights cyberpunk, with a traditional Man vs. God-like Machine story (that I didn't finish yet but I pretty much understand where it's going). This game plays like Bioshock 1, but much more hardcore and with phasers. The gunplay, the multiple ammo types and weapon modes that make every weapon unique, is a welcoming change compared to the "oblivion with guns" type of single player FPS I've grown accustomed to lately. But what I really love is the lack of quest marks and hand holding akin to Morrowind that forces you into slow and careful exploration, counting your ammo and heals, listening to logs and reading the writing on the wall (sometimes literally). The difficulty is what I also like a lot. I chose the 3 2 2 3, since I didn't want a global 10 hours timer and also got scared of the enigmatic « when you die in the game, you die in real life », but the combat is really challenging enough so that stealth or an alternative path is always something to consider instead of brute-forcing, whereas the puzzles are not really difficult but challenging enough to be interesting so far.