I can list a few reasons: ghosts, blasphemy, suicide, swearing, extreme violence, drugs, decaying corpses lying all over the place are all depicted in detail. In a nutshell: wake up, follow instructions, kill everything and solve the mystery.Īs I mentioned earlier, Christians will have trouble with this game. You however are not discovered and upon waking must find out what happened, and destroy the responsible bad guys. Aliens take over, all the crew is slaughtered and the AI running the ship goes berserk (ala 2001: A Space Odyssey). You are put into hypersleep for six months and while you're asleep, all hell breaks loose.

This starship is capable of travelling faster than the speed of light and is the first manned spacecraft to explore beyond our solar system.

I will attempt to explain how the game's plot goes: you are a soldier of a futuristic military force known as the UNN, and accept a mission to go onboard the maiden flight of mankind's latest technological achievement: a starship called the 'Von Braun'. It's a much more sophisticated game than titles such as ' Aliens vs Predator', ' Resident Evil', 'Hexen II', etc. The atmosphere portrayed within this game is incredibly tense and has a creepy, somewhat disturbing ambience to it. Like the “Alien” movies which I enjoyed despite Hollywood's standard swearing and violence, this game contains a similarly moody feel but also has a lot of content Christians will find harder to stomach (I'll explain more later). This game, unfortunately, will be no exception. The game is an RPG/FPS hybrid, two genres that Christians often have trouble with. If you're familiar with the “Alien” series of movies and have played the hit PC game ' Deus Ex', you already have a good idea of what to expect. The game has a rating (in Australia/New Zealand) of MA-Restricted and trust me, is not for those under 16 years of age.

' System Shock 2' is the official sequel to 1994's cult-classic PC game “System Shock” and was released by Electronic Arts in late 1999. System Requirements: Pentium 200+, 64MB RAM, 3D Video Card

System shock 1 vs system shock 2