(sadly this series after Shadow of Chernobyl has also become a lot less scary). Will there ever be another game this scary? Most likely also not though there is still S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Will there ever be again a villain which is the main thing I like about a series? Most likely no.
The way SHODAN is used to tell the story and taunting/helping the player is very unique. The greatest thing I find about SHODAN is that even though she is most obviously the main villain of the series, she rather feels to me as not the "lame endboss to kill after 1000 levels", but rather the core of the series. The disregard for anything living shines through so much it is really unsettling. This glitchy voice (or rather several voices all at once) and the things she says to my poor characters are just beyond good and after a while really go on the nerves, in a very good way. The way she looks but most of all the way she talks. Then there is some bunch of AI's in games, which are not too memorable in general (or at least I cannot come up with any names now, the one from Portal is ok, but I did not like her too much). Everybody knows HAL 9000 (good but not so scary), there is AM, incredibly sadistic AI and very unsettling. Some of them more convincing than others. The rogue AI story I have seen now several times. But instead I'm forever trapped inside her corridors." I get even send food now and then by some of the service bots. It seems she wants to keep me alive, to see me suffer. All I hear is now and then the taunts of the machine. I tried talking to him to at least have some company, though he did not reply. Only the stench of the dead security officer to keep me company. Only to be trapped in a dark room with nothing to see.
SHODAN it calls itself, it calls me "insect". I had been trying to do something about it, but I failed. Or rather is no longer under our control. Though all I have seen lately are the tormented faces of people who died in sheer terror. It for sure would be nice to see a friendly face again some time. Neither do I know if anyone is still alive. I do not know how long ago it all happened. Why I do not know, but it seems to hate me or rather mankind more than I have ever seen. I'm starting to doubt if there is any way out of here. "For days I have been running around in the same dark and cold corridors.
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