You're always on the brink of running out of ammo or health supplies. System Shock 2 is also a harder game, and for a lot of the game you're very resource starved. The game also never pauses when you're looking at your inventory or hacking things (I have a fond memory of rushing behind a turret and desperately trying to hack it in a hurry before it could rotate towards me and open fire) SS2 is more of an actual RPG with a proper inventory system and the talent points you invest in. The Rebirth mod makes them look sinister, and that clashes with what they actually are.Īnd completely unrelated to your question, some random tips for the game: BioShock was a great game, but it was definitely more of a 'casual' (gameplay wise) game than System Shock 2. The idea is that they are still kind of human, but unable to control their bodies anymore.

Hybrids for example (think of them kind of like the Splicers in Bioshock 1), are supposed to be kind of sympathetic they look sad and tortured, and as they attack you, they yell things like 'I'm sorry' or 'Kill me'. I think it alters the feel of the enemies too much. I remember seeing a pretty popular mod that replaced the original models with much higher polygon ones I think it's called Rebirth. Just use that and it'll play pretty much like any FPS.Īs for mods, I don't like to use most of them, aside from one that improves the textures without altering the art style. Fortunately, you can easily use a 'Default FPS' control configuration that comes included in the key bindings settings.

This isn't a mod per se, but the default controls for SS2 are kind of wonky.

Anything relevant about the story from SS1 gets told to you in SS2. I never played System Shock 1 though, and you really don't need to. System Shock 2 is one of my favorite games ever.

System shock 2 mod bundle