The Bioshock games are the most popular and least good of their spiritual franchise. Prey (2017) and System Shock 1 and 2 are all fantastic games. For story SS1 is my favorite, while Prey has the most developed gameplay (perhaps obviously given the release date). I still haven’t played more than a couple hours of SS2, but it’s a classic on the level of Deus Ex.
SS1 also has the distinction of being possibly the most influential game ever made. It’s bonkers how many systems and ideas it was the first to explore or use. A very faithful remake came out recently, with one for SS2 under development.
Looks like they also released a remaster of SS2 a few months ago, I haven’t played that yet, but I’m looking forward to seeing if they did as good a job as with the first one.
The Bioshock games are the most popular and least good of their spiritual franchise. Prey (2017) and System Shock 1 and 2 are all fantastic games. For story SS1 is my favorite, while Prey has the most developed gameplay (perhaps obviously given the release date). I still haven’t played more than a couple hours of SS2, but it’s a classic on the level of Deus Ex.
SS1 also has the distinction of being possibly the most influential game ever made. It’s bonkers how many systems and ideas it was the first to explore or use. A very faithful remake came out recently, with one for SS2 under development.
(Edit: just saw that I somehow missed you mentioned this already, sorry! I’ll leave my comment here, as a second opinion about it though!)
Yes! System Shock is one of my favorite games ever. If you get a chance, check out the recent remaster/remake of SS1, they did an excellent job with it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/482400/System_Shock/
Looks like they also released a remaster of SS2 a few months ago, I haven’t played that yet, but I’m looking forward to seeing if they did as good a job as with the first one.