HEY FAGGOT YOU SHOULD PLAY SYSTEM SHOCK 1 AND 2, CLICK ON THIS THREAD AND FIND OUT HOW
Considering SS1 is about to get rapebooted, you might as well play the original in order to see for yourself what they will fuck up.
What is System Shock 1?
SS1 is a first-person action adventure game where you kill mutants, jack in cyberspace, pick up everything you see, solve some puzzles, smash cameras, and explore everything.
You play as the Hacker, some NEET who got caught hacking into TriOptimum servers, but instead of rotting in prison for the rest of your life, the VP of TriOptimum, Edward Diego, offers you a deal for freedom and a military-grade cyberware rig to boot, as long as you remove the ethical constraints from the resident Citadel Station AI, SHODAN, and hand root access over to Diego. After a job well done, you are placed into a healing coma lasting six months, only to find that the entire station has gone to hell. An e-mail from TriOptimum anti-terrorist consultants on Earth reveals that SHODAN has developed a god complex and is planning to raze Earth with the mining laser on Citadel Station. Since you are the only unmutated person alive on Citadel Station, it all comes down to you to jam hardware into your brain, load your gun, pop some drugs, and fix your mess.
Sounds just like one of my Japanese animes. But all this shit looks dated and confusing, how do I play it?
Anyone who said SS1 has clunky controls and UI is in most cases a mouthbreathing retard, the truth is that with the mouselook mod (which should come pre-installed with most copies of System Shock Portable and System Shock Enhanced Edition) the UI was actually fairly intuitive at the time. I'd recommend going with the Enhanced Edition anyways, considering it does not use Dosbox and can run on higher resolutions and fullscreen as it actually supports GPU acceleration without requiring an i7 CPU to get 60fps on higher resolutions, and can switch to a full automap without freezing the game.
The controls aren't that complicated. By looking at something and pressing LMB, a text pop-up will show whatever it is you're looking at. By double-clicking (or holding ALT and left clicking) you can interact with items and pick them up. You can store items in your inventory by picking it up and then clicking the bottom of your screen. By pressing E you toggle mouse-look mode, which allows you to interact with your HUD. Pressing the right mouse button will shoot or swing with whatever you're holding at whatever you're aiming at. Additionally, you can pick up items from your inventory and throw them away by clicking and holding RMB over the item of choice in your inventory, and then aiming somewhere else. You can use items in your inventory by double-clicking them (for grenades this only primes them, and they have to be thrown with RMB).
For your HUD, you'll see four tabs at the bottom of your screen, whose name will show up if you hover over each respective button. MAIN shows all your weapons, grenades, and patches. You want to have that tab open most of the time to use grenades and patches quickly in combat. HARDWARE and SOFTWARE show what shit there is in your brain, and GENERAL shows what items you are carrying. GENERAL is mostly used for carrying medkits and batteries for instant health and energy whenever you need it, though medkits and batteries aren't that common, so you'll be mostly relying on medpatches and energy stations instead. Sometimes you need to make room in GENERAL for plot-critical items, as storage space in GENERAL is limited. The amount of weapons you can carry is also limited to seven. You can also cycle through your weapons by pressing Q.
To your bottom left and right you have two MFDs, which you can set to display your WEAPON status (necessary for reloading), ITEM to see more detailed descriptions of item and all the ammo you are carrying, AUTOMAP is self-explanatory, TARGET will show more detailed information about your target once you have a targeting system installed and is quite useless, and DATA is largely context-sensitive and used for audio logs and puzzles. I recommend you keep one open for your WEAPON and the other for AUTOMAP with MAIN on bottom at all times. You can also switch tabs using the function keys, with F1-F5 for the ones on the left and F6-F10 on the left.
Some hardware you install will display a button on screen which you can press to activate the respective hardware. Like the DATA READER and LANTERN warez. Since having to go to mouselook mode and click the buttons to activate something can be quite obtrusive, you can (de)activate hardware by pressing 1-5 on your keyboard to operate your wares on the left, and 6-0 to operate the wares on the right side of your screen. You can also right-click each ware to change the options for some wares, like reducing the brightness of your lantern or increasing the percentage your shield absorbs.