{"id":50605,"date":"2013-02-14T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50605"},"modified":"2013-02-14T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:40:58","slug":"system-shock-2-infects-gog-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/50605-system-shock-2-infects-gog-com","title":{"rendered":"System Shock 2 infects GOG.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOG.com has announced that System Shock 2 has hit its DRM-free digital distribution service, and is compatible with Windows 7, 8, Vista, and XP for US$9.99.<\/p>\n<p>System Shock and System Shock 2 are highly regarded as cult classic PC games, both having a huge impact on the action-RPG genre of gaming. System Shock 2 was designed by Ken Levine of BioShock fame, and co-developed by Irrational Games and series progenitor Looking Glass Studios.<\/p>\n<p>BioShock and Deus Ex (2000), both highly regarded titles in their own right, are considered spiritual successors to the System Shock series.<\/p>\n<p>System Shock 2 maintains a 92% rating on Metacritic. The game features a mixture of fast-paced action and story-driven gameplay, with FPS and action-RPG mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Those worried that the game may be looking a bit too dated in today&#8217;s gaming age can check out a couple of mods that overhaul the textures of the original.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"ModDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moddb.com\/mods\/system-shock-rebirthhigh-poly-pack\" target=\"_blank\">System Shock Rebirth(high poly pack) mod &#8211; Mod DB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ModDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moddb.com\/mods\/shtup-system-shock-2-texture-upgrade\" target=\"_blank\">SHTUP &#8211; System Shock 2 Texture Upgrade mod &#8211; Mod DB <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a3__6BknDHc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49646-bioshock-infinite-religious-themes-enhance-storyline.html\">BioShock Infinite tackles religion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43756-15-games-that-aged-horribly.html\">15 games that aged horribly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49430-bioshock-infinite-pc-specs-revealed.html\">Bioshock Infinite PC specs revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48668-irrational-aims-to-please-pc-players-with-bioshock-infinite.html\">Irrational aims to please PC players with Bioshock Infinite<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC classic is finally available to purchase via GOG.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":50608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,277,559,2013,281,8865,6487,8864],"class_list":["post-50605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-bioshock","tag-gog-com","tag-irrational-games","tag-ken-levine","tag-looking-glass-studios","tag-system-shock","tag-system-shock-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50609,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605\/revisions\/50609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}