If you have never played it and want to play a part of video game history, now is the time. ( link) For only $10 you get the game, soundtrack (both flac and MP3) wallpapers, artworks and more. But now, finally, that's all be resolved, and Good Old Games has released a version of it optimised for modern PCs. For more thirteen years, legal problems have kept it locked in cyberspace, inaccessible to anyone who didn't buy it in 1999. The alluring monster in question is, of course, System Shock 2, often referred to as the spiritual predecessor to Bioshock, the game that earned Ken Levine a place in the virtual hall of fame. I’m here to tell you why you should be afraid and delighted in equal measure. Just a few days ago, however, it suddenly came back, determined to regain its former glory. For the past decade something has been lurking amid the vast electronic tangle of cyberspace: a name whispered with a strange mixture of fondness and fear by those who remember it a creation that reigned supreme at the tail end of the last Millennium, and then almost completely disappeared.
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