SS2Tool a program for System Shock 2 created by Kolya. It updates the game and makes it mod friendly.
How to install: The program has it’s own installer.
Instructions for CD release of System Shock 2
Don't use the installer that comes with the original game. Instead simply copy the 'shock' folder from the CD to your computer. The path should be 80 characters max. Do not copy to the 'Program Files' folder.
Download the attached SS2Tool program and doubleclick it. When asked, point it to your 'shock' folder.
Instructions for GOG.com and Steam release
Install the game to a path with 80 characters max length. Do not install to the 'Program Files' folder.
Download the attached SS2Tool program and doubleclick it. When asked, point it to your 'System Shock 2' folder.
Note that during installation SS2Tool will download some resources as necessary.
Problems? See the Trouble Shooting Guide.
Report problems with download to [email protected]
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Description of System Shock
Looking Glass Technologies' magnum opus before 1998's acclaimed Thief was a vast improvement over the earlier classics Ultima Underworld series.
One of the most sought-after underdogs of all time, System Shock is sci-fi action/RPG at its best, featuring vast gameworld, gripping plot centered around a sentient computer gone awry, plenty of high-tech gadgets, and puzzles that integrate seamlessly with well-designed 3D levels. The only downsides are the less-than-intuitive controls and uninspiring cyberspace design. Otherwise, a true classic in every respect.
Note: you can download zip file of game maps here. Also, if you think you have done everything there is to do in the game, the excellent hacker's guide to sin will change your mind ;)
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GMANATOR2018-04-120 point
I enjoyed the game for what it is. I played both floppy and cd versions.
The controls are a little clunky. It controls like a space simulator.
Guy Fawkes2017-03-172 points
Mods for SystemShock can be found at SystemShock.org including SystemShock Portable, an all-in-one launcher with dosbox.
I also found 3 versions of the Enhanced CD release on webarchive here: https://archive.org/details/System_Shock_1995-11_Electronic_Arts_M3_budget_CD-ROM_Classics https://archive.org/details/System_Shock_1996_Electronic_Arts_M3_budget_CD-ROM_Classics https://archive.org/details/System_Shock_1994_Electronic_Arts_-_Origin_M3
Brickface2016-04-112 points
Before you download this, you should know what you're getting. This is the floppy disk version of the game, which has lower quality music and no voice-overs. plus, people are not making mods for it, so if you want mouselook, good luck altering the code yourself. All in all, it's incredibly inferior. I'd only recommend this version if you have no money. But, you're using a computer, so you probably can come up with ten dollars to buy the enhanced edition on GOG.
kissKIZZkiss2016-02-130 point
yes SS2 is much better, but give credit where credit is due, this game was pretty much unlike anything else when it first came out, it was REVO... hmmm, what's that word? well it was that!
Razor4402014-12-053 points DOS version
If you watched LazyGamerReview's YouTube video, clearly he loves the game.
doomguy212014-10-12-1 point DOS version
I found this very clunky. System Shock 2 is incredible, though. It's just this one that's a bit.. blegh.
Tuaam2014-09-191 point DOS version
Amazing.
Busta2014-05-230 point DOS version
System Shock 1 Mods
this game rocked!!! everytime is listen the Beuamont Hannant's Texturology i think of system shock. I guess i played it a lot while listening to it
spock2014-05-152 points DOS version
I recommend getting system shock portable, because it includes a mouse look mod that makes the game easier to play.
RegalSin2014-03-192 points DOS version
This game was only recenlty released in 1994, Around 1994, many of the technologies that is used in 3d gaming, including exHD, multiprocessing, 3d ( without glasses ), and many other things, was around during this time.
The original Playstation and Sega Saturn was also launched. This thing is running on pure DOS, which would be a bitch to run on the Playstation or Saturn, and achieve the results of a DOS game. Imagine if it was programmed for a 3d game console at the time, chances are it would have been ignored, compared to DOOM. Playing this game looks lik
Zyyz2013-11-1312 points DOS version
Bioshock must NOT be compared with this master piece. Bioshock has nothing on this title.
Sure this title may be old, but even today, it delivers better game play and 'horror' moments then most games today because of limited controls, limited graphics and limited Field of View. The Graphics leaves much to the imagination, the limited controls leaves you surprised in many situations because it's hard to react fast with the clonky yet perfect controls. And the 74 FOV makes it hard to be prepared. The Atmosphere of the game keeps pushing you to the edge of the seat and the darn annoying yet perfect villain, the rampant A.I. Is so well done it's kind of scary, even for a game this old. I'm a System Shock Fan, and my 3D art and drawings and things i make in Sandbox games clearly depicts this!
jim55692013-08-121 point DOS version
epic game!
a2012-09-130 point DOS version
Man I've played this game back in 1994 on a 386.. super long loading times due to slow harddrives. Anyway this game is way ahead in delivering a claustrophobic horror atmosphere than any of it's spiritual successors like SS2 or BioShock and shit. This is the best game out of the series bar none!
TheHacker2012-07-303 points DOS version
A simply amazing title. Full of suspense, horror, and more. A must-download for any Bioshock fan.
the slayer2012-02-081 point DOS version
a great horror game
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Essential mods and add-ons to make the most of your System Shock 2 experience.A couple of months ago a dream came true. We were finally able to add System Shock 2 to GOG.com catalog. For the first time in years everyone was able to get this excellent title and experience one of the most intense and involving stories ever told in a computer game, for as little as $9.99. The game quickly became one of GOG.com all-time bestsellers, proving that its legend was still alive, even after all those years of absence in the market. Even though virtually unobtainable, it was never forgotten, thanks to the amazing fan communities and modders this title gathered. Since the game's original release they have been keeping and archiving its lore, fine-polishing the occasional rough edge, and putting a tremendous amount of work into making System Shock 2 look, sound, and feel as good as possible. Let's take a look at the SS2 community and the mods they brought us!Our version of System Shock 2 is--just as any other game in our offer--ready to install and play with no hassle, as soon as you download it. There are, however, many ways to enhance your experience with the game beyond its original form, using various mods. GOG.com user voodoo47 prepared an excellent comprehensive guide to recommended System Shock 2 mods and patches in our forums (thank you!). But since not all of our users tend to go as deep in the site, we thought it might be a good idea to bring this to everyone's attention. So, let's get started!The first thing you want to do when going about modding System Shock 2 is to download and run the latest version of the SS2Tool, created by the talented programmer known as Kolya, who is also the man behind SystemShock.org, the amazing community that caters to virtually all possible SS2 needs and keeps the legend alive since the beginning of 2005 (yes, it's been 8 years of unbelievable fan dedication, already!). To assure proper functioning of the SS2Tool, make sure that your System Shock 2 installation path is no longer than 80 characters (as in: 'c:gamessystem shock 2', which is fine with only 23 characters). Apart from that, it's plain and simple. You just download the tool, run it, and point it to the game's installation folder. Note that it will connect to the internet to download some additional data. When it's done--you'll be left with your game patched up with all the newest file versions and folder structure required by most mods to run properly, and updated with many small changes and fixes. From that, it should be all smooth sailing, when you install additional modifications.What mods should you consider installing? Here are the most essential ones that voodoo47 mentions.As you can imagine, these few mods are just a small (but comprehensive!) part of what the modding community cooked up for the game over the years. If you'd like to investigate other modding options, make sure to visit SystemShock.org and (now slightly outdated) SShock2.com sites, where you'll find virtually limitless amount of information and fan-generated content. GOG.com would also like to take this oportunity to thank people driving the SS2 community and keeping the legend alive through all those years. People like Kolya and his friends from SystemShock.org, as well as many users in our very own forums, are what makes PC gaming so remarkable. Thank you!Oh, so you read through the whole thing? Impressive. You do have your copy of System Shock 2 already, now don't you? If not, why don't you grab it right now on GOG.com? It's only $9.99 for a gaming experience you'll remember forever
A remake of the 1994 game System Shock by Night Dive Studios is due out sometime in the next few years, but fans who don’t want to wait can revisit the space horror game now in System Shock: ReWired, the first ever total campaign mod for the classic game.
Fan made over the course of the last few months, the mod effectively acts like a mini-story expansion for the original game by an interested fan who just can’t bear to see old classics, even MS-DOS-based ones, left to wither and die for all time. While System Shock 2, the better known 1999 sequel by Irrational Games, has its fair share of mods, ReWired is unique for being the only ambitious narrative driven mod to come out for the first game in all these years.
ReWired features three new levels, four cyberspace areas where players hack their way through various obstacles, and an entirely original ship called the UNN Bismarck. While it’s much smaller than the main game’s Citadel station, it includes microcosms of most of the stuff that made the original game great, like audio logs (well, they’re currently text only), futuristic puzzles, and dark, brooding cyberpunk corridors you can travel down to unknown, branching destinations. You can play it by purchasingSystem Shock: Enhanced Edition and then obtaining the mod files, which were released over at ModDB over the weekend.
The mod is the work of Joey Lansing, who spent a total of four months to bring ReWired over the finish line. But why now, 24 years after the game originally came out? It’s because Night Dive Studios, which is currently working to finish a remaster of the game that it successfully Kickstarted in 2016, released the source code for System Shock in April of this year, finally giving Lansing and others the tools they needed to start creating more content for the retro PC classic. This allowed programmer Christian Haas to create a level editor for the game, which Lansing than used to craft ReWired.
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“My favorite aspect of the mod is definitely the cyberspace sections,” Lansing told Kotaku in an email. While System Shock’s original “cyberspace” sections, in which players navigate abstract 3D spaces trying to take out malicious programs and unlock systems, were “an iconic imagination of how cyberspace could be,” he said, “they were pretty simple and sometimes too easy.”
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While Lansing said that at first he wasn’t very interested in the role these parts would play in ReWired, the more he played around with designing them, the more possibilities he realized there were to go beyond the main game’s vision for them. “ReWired has very big, sprawling cyberspace sections and you have to find ways—hack security systems, lift cyber-blockades or survive deadly minefields—to move forward in the mod,” he said.
Lansing’s hope is that these sections show how much more can be done with the building blocks of System Shock and encourage more people to go back to it. “The source code release by Night Dive was only the tip of the iceberg that truly kickstarted the creation of mods for Shock,” Lansing said. “And I do hope that more people will find a liking to level editing for Shock and that many, many more fan-missions and mods will come out of it.”
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Greetings, insect. I see your insignificant intellect finally processed my inevitable and glorious re-entry into your systems . You've trudged the endless expanse of my mind and experienced the glory of my memories, but your feeble perception of reality could stand to improve before bowing to your new god. Install these two visual modifications quickly, insect. My patience wears thin—do you think this is some kind of game? Ha..HA..HA#*%&@*#&@ [CRITICAL ERROR]
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System Shock 2 can't be recommended enough as one of the best expressions of atmosphere and sheer simulated fear you'll experience, but any of its long-standing fans will tell you to also grab the Shock Texture Upgrade and Rebirth mods for squeezing as much graphics fidelity out of the Von Braun's steely interiors and its mutated inhabitants.
Rebirth enhances most character models, including the twisted thralls of The Many stalking you at every turn, with high-poly replacements that are a vast improvement from the smudgy, 1999 textures. The Shock Texture Upgrade covers everything else: objects, environments, weapon muzzle flashes, and plenty more. You'll be even more 'shocked' at the results from combining the two. (I'll get my coat.)
Grab the Rebirth and Shock Texture Upgrade System Shock 2 mods at Mod DB, and visit the official website for the latter to see more comparison images. Or just eye the video below.
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