McGuire

This game is simply the best game ever. End of story. Ok, not end of story... speaking of the story, it's really quite brilliant. It may seem like standard cheezy sci-fi stuff, but it's really a tale about extremes. The question the games poses, in my opinion... is which extreme is better... the strictly mechanical or the strictly biological? The answer the game poses is that a combination of the two is best. SHODAN represents the purely mechanical, The Many represent the purely biological.

Humanity represents the midway point, and the proof that humanity is going about it the right way lies in the fact that they created both the other two parties... (one by way of the other.) As well as the fact that humanity wins in the end. Or do we? Hope to see a System Shock 3 some day. (Please let this be one of those ironic comments people look back on and say "ha, look at that! we all know there was a System Shock 3 and it rocked! ho ho, he didn't even know there would be one then!) Please?

All of the people who have posted reviews in here that are talking about this game being disappointing or falling short of their desires, are complete fools if you ask me... I'm sorry but this is clearly the best game ever made. I would ask why someone would even bother writing 10 paragraphs about something they didn't like. Anyway, this game is widely regarded (by people who know what they're talking about and what games should be like) as an amazing acheivement... so I was like "what the??" when I stumbled across it even having an IMDB listing, much less it being a hidden little pocket of negativity toward it, I can safely say this is the first time I've ever witnessed anything other than pure praise for this game.

Just felt I needed to defend it.

PS the soundtrack is incredible