15 Facts About System Shock

System Shock is a 1994 first-person action-adventure video game developed by LookingGlass Technologies and published by Origin Systems.

Critics praised System Shock and hailed it as a major breakthrough in its genre.

System Shock takes place from a first-person perspective in a three-dimensional graphical environment.

System Shock is then contacted by a technician who managed to circumvent SHODAN's jamming signal.

System Shock was first conceived during the final stages of Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds development, between December 1992 and January 1993.

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System Shock was defined by two little three-paragraph "minute of gameplay" documents.

System Shock had visited his friend Rex Bradford at the company, and was spontaneously asked by the game's programmers—many of whom were fans of the band—if he would take the role.

System Shock explained that they "didn't always get what the team was trying to do", and said, "You don't want to know how many times the game came this close to being killed ".

System Shock's goal was to ensure that neither party could continue the franchise without the other's involvement.

System Shock said that it was "very much the Microsoft Word school of user interface", in that there was no "feature that you [could not] see on the screen and touch and play with".

System Shock developed the game's audio over 16 months, working on a contractual basis until Tribe disbanded in May 1994; Ned Lerner gave him a full-time job as audio director the next day.

System Shock finished his review by stating that the game "unquestionably raises computer gaming to a new level".

System Shock was one of the key inspirations behind Irrational's BioShock.

Sequel to System Shock, titled System Shock 2, was released by Looking Glass and Irrational Games in 1999 to further acclaim and awards.

Nightdive affirmed in August 2022 that Tencent now held the IP rights to the series, and if a third System Shock game were to be made, it would be up to Tencent as the Otherside team had since been transitioned to other projects.