System Shock

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System Shock is a hybrid First Person Shooter-Role Playing Game developed by Origin Systems and released in 1994 in CD-ROM format. (earlier released in floppy disk form without the extra features of the CD-ROM version) System Shock failed to bring out much notice in 1994 because of the release of id Software's DOOM (even though System Shock's engine in technical detail is superior to DOOM's) but later on, it became a cult favorite.

[edit] The Story

In the year 2072, you play as a freelance hacker (who you get to name at the start of the game) who attempted to break into the protected computer networks of the TriOptiumum Corporation's orbiting research platform Citadel Station. The hacker was traced and TriOptimum security personnel located and arrested the hacker.

The hacker was brought to Citadel by the orders of a Tri-Op executive named Edward Diego. Diego contracts the hacker to break into Citadel's revolutionary A.I - SHODAN, to destroy evidence linking Diego to a haywire biomedical experiment. In return, the hacker would be given a military-grade neural implant that would allow the hacker to access cyberspace directly through the brain. The hacker removes SHODAN's 'ethical constraints' and Diego is pleased, putting the hacker into the hands of Citadel's medical personnel to have the implant installed.

After surgery, the hacker is placed in a 6 month healing coma and upon waking up, finds Citadel devoid of living life, besides mutants and cyborgs created by a now insane SHODAN. Tri-Optimum Corporate Headquarters contact the hacker through anti-terrorism operative Rebecca Lansing, who directs the hacker to stop SHODAN from implementing several doomsday scenarios, using the station's mining laser against Earth, releasing a bio-toxin in the atmosphere and downloading a copy of SHODAN into all of Earth's computer networks.