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System Shock

System Shock

Console: PC
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Looking Glass Studios, Inc.
Publisher(s): Origin Systems
Release Date: 1994-09-22
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Type: Action, Adventure
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System Shock is an action-adventure game developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems. Released in 1994, the game is set aboard a space station in a cyberpunk vision of the year 2072. Assuming the role of a nameless hacker, the player attempts to hinder the plans of a malevolent artificial intelligence called SHODAN.