Editing System Shock (section)

{{Short description|1994 video game}}
{{About|the 1994 video game|the remake|System Shock (2023 video game){{!}}''System Shock'' (2023 video game)|other uses}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title = System Shock
| image = Sysshock.jpg
| developer = [[LookingGlass Technologies]]{{efn|[[Nightdive Studios]] developed ''System Shock: Enhanced Edition'' for Microsoft Windows.}}
| publisher = [[Origin Systems]]{{efn|Nightdive Studios re-released the classic version of the game on Windows, OS X, and Linux, and also published the ''Enhanced Edition'' on Windows.}}
| director = [[Doug Church]]
| producer = [[Warren Spector]]
| programmer = Doug Church
| series = ''[[System Shock (series)|System Shock]]''
| engine = Kex Engine (''Enhanced Edition''; 2018 update)
| composer = {{Unbulleted list|Greg LoPiccolo|Tim Ries}}
| platforms = {{Unbulleted list|[[MS-DOS]]|[[Classic Mac OS|Mac OS]]|[[PC-9800 series|PC-98]]<ref name="DieWeltRevol">{{cite news |author1=Nico Jaenecke |title=Diese Spiele haben das Gaming revolutioniert |url=https://www.welt.de/spiele/article138242501/Diese-Spiele-haben-das-Gaming-revolutioniert.html |website=[[Die Welt]] |access-date=May 12, 2020 |page=16 |language=de |date=March 10, 2015 |archive-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927160946/https://www.welt.de/spiele/article138242501/Diese-Spiele-haben-das-Gaming-revolutioniert.html |url-status=live }}</ref>|[[Microsoft Windows]]}}
| released = {{Collapsible list|title={{nobold|September 23, 1994}}|'''MS-DOS'''{{Video game release|NA|September 23, 1994|EU|November 1994}}'''Mac OS'''{{Video game release|NA|December 23, 1994}}'''Windows'''{{Video game release|WW|September 22, 2015}}}}
| genre = [[Action-adventure game|Action-adventure]]<ref name="allgamereview">{{cite web |url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=705 |title=System Shock - Review |author=Marriott, Scott Alan |publisher=[[AllGame]] |access-date=April 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114171023/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=705 |archive-date=November 14, 2014}}</ref>
| modes = [[Single-player]]
}}

'''''System Shock''''' is a 1994 first-person [[action-adventure game|action-adventure]] video game developed by [[LookingGlass Technologies]] and published by [[Origin Systems]]. It was directed by [[Doug Church]] with [[Warren Spector]] serving as producer. The game is set aboard a space station in a [[cyberpunk]] vision of the year 2072. Assuming the role of a nameless [[security hacker]], the player attempts to hinder the plans of a malevolent artificial intelligence called [[SHODAN]].

''System Shock''{{'s}} [[3D computer graphics|3D]] engine, physics simulation and complex gameplay have been cited as both innovative and influential. The developers sought to build on the [[emergent gameplay]] and immersive environments of their previous games, ''[[Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss]]'' and ''[[Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds]]'', by streamlining their mechanics into a more "integrated whole"; it is considered one of the defining examples of an [[immersive sim]].

Critics praised ''System Shock'' and hailed it as a major breakthrough in its genre. It was later placed on multiple hall of fame lists. The game was a moderate commercial success, with sales exceeding 170,000 copies, but Looking Glass ultimately lost money on the project. A sequel, ''[[System Shock 2]]'', was released by Looking Glass Studios and offshoot developer [[Irrational Games]] in 1999. The 2000 game ''[[Deus Ex (video game)|Deus Ex]]'' (produced and directed by Spector), the 2007 game ''[[BioShock]]'', and the 2017 game ''[[Prey (2017 video game)|Prey]]'' are [[spiritual successor]]s to the two games. A [[System Shock (2023 video game)|remake]] by [[Nightdive Studios]] was released on 30 May 2023.