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The many system shock the flood1/20/2024 ![]() Both are based around rampant AIs (AIs which have violently attained self-awareness), star a military transhuman who is as much a machine as man, deal with a voracious hive-minded alien infection. The Halo (and earlier Marathon) series have quite a bit of very obvious parallel with System Shock. ![]() Really now, have you actually played the game? Sounds like you're the one reaching to connect my original post to the odd little scenario you mentioned. However the pinnicle of storytelling it is not and please don't try reaching so much to connect shock2 to something, it just ends up looking sad(about as sad as tron fans going gonzo over a generic tron dvd case in some animated thing on comedy central). Halo is actually quite an enjoyable series for its single player campaign, and the backstory in terms of more serious military sci-fi reminds me a bit of System Shock 2 quite often. I'd suggest some of you give it a try if you haven't. Though I think I'd take a Master Chief over Goggles any day. SS2 and The Many are of course far superior to H3 and The Flood. It made me immediately think of the Body of the Many and I got a sudden craving for SS2 done current-gen style.Īh well, wishful thinking but it was nostalgic in its own way. However the most recent installment, 3, came out recently and during one portion of the game, your character has to traverse a ship that has been infested by a sentient parasitic hive race (The Flood) not at all unlike The Many. Well I can imagine that a lot of you might hate the Halo series for being 'lowbrow' and have therefore never played it.
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