This allowed The Many to grow beyond her control. When the grove landed on Tau Ceti V, SHODAN was forced into hibernation. Forty-two years earlier, an unnamed hacker ejected the grove that contained both SHODAN and her experiments into space to prevent them from contaminating Earth.
They are the results of bio-engineering experiments on the denizens of Citadel Station. Polito to gain his trust, and is solely responsible for creating The Many.
She reveals that she has been posing as Dr. He is confronted by SHODAN, the rogue artificial intelligence that caused the devastation on Citadel Station in the previous game. As he makes his way to his objective, the soldier battles the infected crew members all the while, The Many communicates telepathically with the soldier, inciting him to join their collective.Īfter the soldier restarts the Rickenbacker's engine core, incinerating everything in the elevator shaft, he reaches Deck 4 and discovers that Dr. Dr Polito implores the soldier to meet with her on Deck 4. Janice Polito, who guides the soldier to safety seconds before the medical wing depressurizes. He is immediately contacted by another survivor, Dr. Soldier G65434-2 awakens in a cryo-tube in the medical wing of the Von Braun with amnesia due to a computer malfunction. Upon the rescue team's return, the infestation takes over both ships. The eggs suddenly infect the rescue team and integrate them into an alien communion that calls itself The Many. A rescue team is deployed to the surface of the planet, where they discover strange eggs throughout the entire facility and nearby area. This ship is appointed to escort the maiden-voyage of the Von Braun, an experimental starship capable of faster-than-light space travel.Ī couple of months into the journey, the ships respond to a distress signal originating from the planet Tau Ceti V. After the protagonist, Soldier G65434-2, joins the United National Nominate, he is assigned to the Rickenbacker, a military spacecraft. The main story begins in 2114, forty-two years after the events of the original System Shock. In a mid-game plot twist, players also witness the resurrection of the original System Shock's primary antagonist, the malevolent artificial intelligence known as SHODAN. Over the course of the game, the soldier uncovers the events leading to the catastrophe by battling his way through both ships and examining clues left behind by the crew, such as audio logs. The campaign begins as the soldier is awakened from cryogenic stasis with no memory of the last several weeks, only to discover the Von Braun derelict and overrun by a host of hostile mutant creatures who refer to themselves collectively as " The Many". Set in the early twenty-second century, players assume the role of a nameless soldier serving aboard the military space-faring vessel UNN Rickenbacker during its defensive escort for the maiden voyage of humanity's first faster-than-light starship, the Von Braun. Addtionally, cross-platform play means one person will be able to tackle the challenges in VR while playing co-operatively, and another can join in using a traditional screen on a different machine.Ĭurrently, Nightdive's VR mode is still at the prototype stage and the studio anticipates it'll be added to System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition sometime after launch.System Shock 2 is the sequel to the 1994 first-person shooter/RPG hybrid System Shock. Nightdive's ultimate goal is to deliver a "really remarkable, built from the ground up VR experience" for System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition, and the studio says both single-player and multiplayer modes will be fully playable in VR. When it was clear the idea was viable, the studio began development in earnest, drawing inspiration fromm Valve's Half-Life: Alyx, which it says has "just become essential in creating that feeling that you're there". The studio says it initially began exploring VR for its new Enhanced Edition during the process of reverse-engineering the missing libraries for System Shock 2. Watch on YouTube Let's Play Half-Life: Alyx Episode 1: DREAMIN' OF CITY 17.Īnd now, speaking to IGN, the developer has finally confirmed a VR version is not only in the works, it's being handled by its own VR-focussed development team.
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