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It's too bad that virtually nobody has played or can ever again play System Shock 2. That game just reeks of scary atmosphere in a way I've yet to see matched with games of the last few generations.
I "obtained" a copy a little while ago, but haven't really played much yet to be honest. Great atmosphere, but it hasn't seemed to age well on the gameplay side.
It had quite a loving mod community. There were tons of significant graphical upgrades to pretty much the entire game making it look so much better (most namely Rebirth and SHTUP). I feel like the interface aged far better than the visuals and were well ahead of their time. I remember people making such a hullabaloo about Doom 3's innovative use of voice logs to tell the story when SS2 had done it FIVE years earlier.

The fact that weapons can break and that the enemies never stop coming in any other game would get on my nerves, but just really worked in this particular game. I seriously used to freak my wife out by waiting until she was half asleep and rasping, "Your song is not ours..."