System Shock 2

SS2 is superior to BioShock once you've got to grips with it's foibles.

As far as I'm aware, it's not really much harder to get working in Vista (any flavour) than in XP. If you're lucky, it'll work almost out of the box. If not, you'll have the usual issues.
 
As good as Bioshock is, no game has given me the same feeling of atmoshpere and fear as System Shock 2 :)

Be great if some1 did a mod updating the game, Like Black Mesa are doing with the original HL.
 
Yes System Shock 2 is better than Bioshock IMHO. Its seems like the System Shock 2 mechanics and gameplay was just stuck onto Bioshock, with no real thought about how it would work into the storyline. Its like they were working on the graphics more than updating the gameplay.
 
If Bioshock were a direct sequel, I would have thought it very worthy. They really improved the combat mechanics and speed over SS2.
 
I have it working with Vista64, although I'm getting intermittent audio issues.

If you have a dual core chip, you have to set processor affinity to a single core. The easy (but non-permanent) way to do this is to start the game up as far as the main menu, ctrl-alt-del out and look for sshock2.exe (or something similar) under the processes tab, and set it to a single cpu core.

Unfortunately you might also have trouble depending on your video drivers, I'm using the latest ati ones on an x1800xt.
 
Bring on SS3 I want evil shodan, the parades of hybrids and the pantwettingly scary monsters creeping up on me. Thus causing my eventual retreat into a dark corner where I spend the rest of my life cowering in a pool of my own bodily fluids.
 
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Bring on SS3 I want evil shodan, the parades of hybrids and the pantwettingly scary monsters creeping up on me. Thus causing my eventual retreat into a dark corner where I spend the rest of my life cowering in a pool of my own bodily fluids.
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Haha loved SS2
 
agree - SS2 > Bioshock.

As good as Bioshock is, I think that System Shock 2 is much better. I think that it maybe because of the setting. Deep Space > 1950's utopia gone wrong.

Plus I like the way that SS2 you down three quite different character classes. It is all very well giving the player the ability to hot swap plasmids on the fly to change how they approach the game, however it doesn't do much for the replayability. I know I played SS2 through twice just to take the psionics route for one of them.
 
System Shock 2 is a lot better. Tooke me a while to get working, theres a patch around that adds XP support, then you have to set affinity to one core if you have a dual core processor. Not sure about Vista im afraid.
 
Another shout-out for System Shock 2! I play that game at least once every year, from start to finish. It's awesome. Try the fan-missions after you complete the full game!
 
I think SS2 = Bioshock

While SS2 was a bit cooler, they definately made leaps and bounds with the speed and combat in Bioshock.
 
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