From that point onwards it seems most unlikely that the game will have a happy ending. Almost at the outset of level one it seems that something has gone badly wrong on Citadel Station, but apart from murderous robots, half-human shamblers and lots of scorch marks everything seems relatively normal until you reach level two, which is littered with human corpses, and level three, in which you have to find a severed head in order to bypass a retinal screening lock.SHODAN rooting your brain in the final cyberspace battle.The compliment for your little burst of cargo-bay athletics is pure Paranoia Fuel. 'Nice jump, human.' The security bots are just shock.The maintenance level with its almost completely invisible mutants, very dim lighting, and spooky music virtually defined video game terror. Let's just hope that the Hacker isn't conscious when it happens After you die, you get to watch your body being dragged inside of a Cyborg Reaver while the text coldly says, 'They find your body and give it new life. GLaDOS was funny, Black Comedy sometimes, but still funny. If a modern gamer goes back to play the System Shock games they make think they know what to expect from SHODAN: 'Oh, so she's like GLaDOS then?' Wrong.Ultimately, what's really scary about her isn't that she doesn't care about you-it's that she cares very deeply about you, or more specifically, how you can gratify her ego. From the very point where her morality blockers are removed, it's made clear that she's evil because she wants to be evil, and all of her traits-hubris, egomania, effective insanity-are all traits you find in human villains. What's even worse is that her general creepiness comes from being the exact opposite of a typical rogue AI It's not because she's coolly logical and mechanical, it's because of how passionate and human she is.If you value that meat, you will do as I tell you!' 'It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants: the only beauty in that meat you call a body. And she thinks she's a goddess! And she's physically threatening. She's supremely confident, unhinged, and omniscient, and she's two steps ahead of you at all times. She's one of PC gaming's most respected villains for a reason. System Shock is a series formulated with the single goal of scaring the crap out of anyone who plays it.
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