The year is 2072. After a beauty sleep of 6 months you wake up in the medical suite in the Citadel space station, and after receiving a warm welcome from the station's AI, you are attacked by a crazy maintenance bot. When you see the first dead body you start to realize that things have gone very, very wrong.

System Shock is more, way more than just running in corridors and blasting monsters. It creates an environment, it creates fear, and I dare to say that it was one of the first games that managed to do it so damn well. The station around you is alive, breathing, humming. It's a character just as much as you and your antagonist. And what an wonderful antagonist it is!, She won't give a damn about you when you wake up, but play some more, and things will get personal.

Beyond the story and the environment, the gaming experience is amazing. There are just so many things to do and try in System Shock, so many things the developers added to this game - Cyberspace, minigames, e-mails from earth, the desperate audio logs of the station personnel... You'll get to know them and respect their desperate fight. In some cases you'll hear them die. While fighting your way through the station, you'll learn more and more about the last days of the station, and what exactly happened while you were in a healing coma.

Look at this game today, and it's amazing how many new elements it introduced and how many are still around. System Shock is an action, adventure and survival horror game, probably the first of its kind. I played Fallout 3 a couple of weeks ago and was amazed how many times I kept remembering System Shock while playing it. To end in HOTU fashion, "Two thumbs up, way up!"