I'm still hoping for a Steam release, but apparently the IP-holders have set up an exclusive distro deal with GoG. I'm still note sure exactly who got this IP or how (unless the Atari bankruptcy tipped some pretty major power), though I'm glad to see it back on sale, legally. Still under full copyright protection as the LGS assets (including IP/franchises) were auctioned off at bankruptcy, just the ownership was in-dispute. Just pointing this one out it was never abandonware. I guess it is no longer abandonware but the 4 person co-op multiplayer should be fun. While dated it can still look much better with the mods.
SYSTEM SHOCK 2 MODS STEAM UPGRADE
If you do decide to get it, dig around for the mods that upgrade all the textures and such. 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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