IE Interactive entertainment System Shock review from 1994

[67ed06a03b6dbunn_atropos]

IE Interactive Entertainment was a multimedia CD ROM magazine founded by Yale Brozen with Steve Scivally. After the first prototype issue zero, the first issue was released May, 1994. The CD magazine went on for about 25 or so issues. The CD's had previews, reviews, tips, etc, all in video/voice format. Many of the reviewers were pretty funny, and had some good banter back and forth, especially in the reviews when they disagreed. Near the end the CD Magazine was merged with Computer Games Strategy Plus Magazine, where the computer magazine became the packaging for the CD.

On archive.org you can download the iso-files. I guess there is more neat stuff to be found!

The video review in Episode 02 (June 1994) talks about gameplay and features and also has some screenshots with interesting stuff that changed compared to the shipped game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm-i1Ui-m9Q

- So it seems like the first keypad was placed at the supply chamber in the starting room. I assume they already had 451
- something different in the menu? You can see all the hardware with version? To lasy to look that up^^
- early Shodan render: looks a bit different, but maybe that is just the video...
- some map control buttons. Are they in the shipped game?
- the lead pipe was supoosed to be a Police Baton!

Episode 09 (January 1995) has detailed descriptions about every weapon. Not that exiting, but there is a render from the death scene I didn't know yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWr97WN2Crw

[67ed06a03b8c5WhyNott]

A police baton? I guess it makes some sense, although I'm glad that they changed that to pipe

[67ed06a03ba3eKolya]

Well the hacker hid it for himself, so a baton makes more sense than a pipe, if you have the choice. But thematically a police baton doesn't fit his underground revolutionary style at all.

[67ed06a03bb44WhyNott]

I always thought that the pipe was just some part of the closet that fell out of the wall or something, I never realized that it was part of the stash

[67ed06a03bd46unn_atropos]

About the death scene:
I just found a gameplay video from 1994 with this sequence.
It's quite different to the version I know. I always assumed that this was the only version, but I take it that the floppy version had/has this video?