The director Ken Levine also directed the 1st and 3rd bioshock games
Uses the Thief graphics engine. However, many players were dissatisfied with the low resolution graphics, and a fan-made modification has been released that replaces all the graphics with more memory-intensive high-resolution graphics.
The sound effect used for when the player uses a med-kit in this game was later re-used in BioShock for when the player uses a first aid kit. This is no coincidence, as both System Shock 2 and BioShock were developed by the same studio, Irrational Games.
Although the first game (System Shock) was never considered to have any unresolved loose ends, the developers still managed to find an entirely credible way to continue the series.
Among other reasons, many people consider the commercial failure of this game to be responsible for the closure of Looking Glass Studios.