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Looking Glass Technologies' 1994 first person action adventure for MS-DOS, set in 2072 aboard Citadel Station, where an unnamed hacker fights the AI SHODAN. The mouse cursor aims weapons and operates the HUD, you can lean, crouch and crawl, and the station is explored largely out of order across nine levels plus a reactor core. There are no characters to talk to, so the story comes through logs and emails, and cyberspace terminals send you into a wireframe 3D space. Sixteen weapons use selectable ammo, with EMP weapons strong against robots but not mutants and gas grenades the reverse. There are no levels or stat progression, and four difficulty sliders cover Story, Combat, Puzzle and Cyberspace. Weapons that suit different enemies, and cameras you can disable to lower SHODAN's security level, still leave the station open to your own plan today.
