
In a rush to make first contact (and to acquire all commercially exploitable rights thereof), CEO Anatoly Korenchkin led an expedition down to the planet surface and discovered a crater, containing a number of large eggs. However, during the first voyage of the Von Braun, a signal was received from the planet Tau Ceti V. As a result of public fear and distrust of true AIs, his intellectual capacity – though almost as high as his predecessor, SHODAN's – was limited to mere calculation and system-running to prevent true awareness. I put a link to his short guide down below.A third generation Artificial Intelligence, XERXES was one of the first Master System AIs created since the AI SHODAN went insane and took over the Citadel space station 42 years earlier. I experienced almost no noticeable bugs, had only one crash in a whole playthrough, and the game looked great on my 2K monitor. These mods will lead to a vanilla plus experience where the game is essentially unchanged but textures are scaled up and there are a lot of bug fixes. I also recommend following the guide Mandaloregaming put together in his youtube review for fixing the game with a few mods. Overall, I would recommend this game to anyone who likes IM-Sims, horror, sci-fi, shooters, or RPGs. Also, some of the controls are not great, and there are some issues that can arise from non-viable character builds. Not like I'm on the verge of rage quitting, but my partner did see me a few times mutter at my computer while trying to get off a ladder or make an awkward jump. Luckily this is only needed for a few items and sections of the game near the end, but my god did it get frustrating at times.

Anything that involves controlled jumping is kinda a nightmare to control.

However, once you get to maybe Hydroponics, you'll be in the groove. It wasn't too scary but definitely is very creepy and a bit overwhelming at first. The sound and atmosphere is great, the music is a jam, the gameplay is fun, the writing and voice acting is good for the most part (even the bad voice actors have charm), and there are so many options given to the player on how to get through the game. I am glad I played through this highly influential game.
