Truly, SS2’s main boon is it’s pleasant story. If you’re an audiophile, you’re definitely not going to find this game very pleasant on the ears. Sound effects are nothing special, magic makes magical noises and guns go bang. The sooner the music is turned off, the better- everything suddenly feels incredibly dorky with the OOMPH OOMPH OOMPH soundtrack. Unfortunately, the disco soundtrack suitable to an upbeat, respectable strip-club is what we instead have to deal with. What they should have rigged up to the game is clear: staccato on violins and cellos, great pounding drums, perhaps the odd metal segment. Which is why it is completely unfitting to this seriously chilling space survival story. The soundtrack to this game is, separately, reasonably good.
If you’re the sort of person that can unwind your mind from our world, and just relax into anything, you will quickly respect every aspect of the visuals ( oooh, look! the panels break when I bash them!).
It is important to recognize, however, that this game belongs to a different era. Modern textures can also be downloaded to make this game a bit more bearable, if the visuals really mean so much to you. However, this doesn’t blow the charm of the game out of the water, and if anything it only adds to the horror this game sets out to instill. gif explosions will accompany the wiry enemies as they briskly wiggle down hallways, offending the eyes of millennials everywhere. The few cinematics are a little on the goofy side, and in-game textures are a tad bland. SS2’s graphics are a little undercooked for nowadays standards, to say the least. But what we’re interested to find out today is, does this 1999 PC game still hold any ground, sixteen years later? A lot of newer gamers will have no doubt played it’s slightly more famous younger brothers, Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite.
What would we do without you? Who would’ve thought that you would spawn a spiritual successor that would help define the 2000’s generation of gaming? Who would’ve thought that you would be revisited years down the track, as new releases continue to disappoint the masses? Who would’ve thought that your music would be so sucky? A lot of gamers born in the 90’s and 80’s have fond memories of this Cyberpunk-themed Survival Horror.
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