Wallpaper: The shock to the system

Written by Dan Zuccarelli

Tuesday, 19 February 2008 07:15

You know the drill by now... I scour the internet, looking for the coolest video game inspired ones out there. Well well, I found another one.

This one is a bit on the retro side, from the classic System Shock 2... and it's HUGE! 1600X1045. Big enough to make all (most) monitors submit to it's retro goodness.

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written by Kevin Alexander, February 19, 2008

Been meaning to play this game. Does anyone know if it's on any of the download services? I already know it's not on Steam. After finishing Bioshock I'd love to see what this one's like.

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written by Andy, February 19, 2008

My favorite goddess, Shodan. Women of power, is there anything more hot?

Kevin, find a CD of this game, it's worth the time to hunt down a copy. You'll also want to hunt down a lot of the mods made for this game a couple of which include re-mixed sound effects and improved enemy models/textures.

To my knowledge there isn't a digital distribution version of SS2, and since EA doesn't like putting their games on other services like Steam/Gametap, I don't think you'll see this one online anytime soon.

-A.

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written by bdwilcox, February 19, 2008

You'll probably never find this on Steam or any other download service because it won't run on 2000/XP if your CPU is hyper-threaded (P4 with HT) or multi-core (Pentium D, Core2Duo/Core2Quad, Athlon64 X2).

You will have to either disable hyperthreading in the BIOS, disable all cores but one in the BIOS, or use a utility to force the game to start up with an affinity for one processor. Or you could build a legacy machine and load it with a 9x OS since these problems do not present themselves. (Windows 9x can't see more than one CPU or hyper-threading.)

I had to have this game shipped from Australia to New Jersey at great expense but it was worth every penny. One of the best games I've ever played.

Unfortunately, I can't find it anywhere online, it's long out of print, and the developer (Looking Glass) is belly up, so you'll probably have to get it through an abandonware site.

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written by bdwilcox, February 19, 2008

Or email me and I'll tell you where you can get it...*cough* *cough* *wink* *wink*

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written by Xerxes3rd, February 19, 2008

Perhaps you could run it in a Win9x virtual machine?

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written by bdwilcox, February 20, 2008

Not with 3d acceleration.

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