Both games are extremely skeptical of corporate interests, and in both cases players find themselves exploring the spooky hallways of a location populated by mutants - Splicers - and cyborgs - Big Daddies. Like Rapture, Citadel Station is cut off from the rest of the world and proves to be a hauntingly isolated and claustrophobic environment. Most of the crew are dead or have been turned into mutants and cyborgs.Īlready the premise bares a lot of resemblance to BioShock despite the difference in setting. When the surgery puts them into a coma for several months, they awaken to find that SHODAN, freed from its ethical limitations, has totally taken over Citadel Station. Having completed the job for Diego, the player character is rewarded with a neutral implant. All will be forgiven if and only if the player character can hack into an AI named SHODAN (Sentient Hyer-Optimized Data Access Network) that runs Citadel Station.

One of the company's top executives, a man named Edward Diego, makes the player character an offer they can't refuse. The station is owned by a the TriOptimum Corporation. System Shock takes players to the year 2072, putting them in the role of a hacker who has just been arrested while stealing information about a space station called Citadel Station. RELATED: BioShock 4 is the Perfect IP for a Sci-Fi Space Setting System Shock's Premise And Plot

Here are all of the ways that System Shock really can be considered BioShock in space, and why the game is still worth playing 27 years after its release. The two titles have similarities from their atmospheres to elements of their plots and even those plots' execution in-game. System Shock, the game to which BioShock is considered a spiritual successor, fits the bill of BioShock in space in almost every way. However, while BioShock 4 is reportedly in development at new studio Cloud Chamber, the setting and story of the next game has yet to be revealed.įor fans who find the idea of a BioShock 4 set in space appealing there is some good news. With two games set underwater and one set in a floating city, space could well be the natural third option for the fourth game's setting.

Earlier this month Last of Us 2 actor Shannon Woodward expressed interest in the next BioShock game being set in space.

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