“Looking Glass was obviously a really impactful experience on me,” Levine says, “It was my first job in the games industry. In fact, when looking at their situation in their early years, you begin to wonder why Irrational's co-founders of Ken Levine, Rob Fermier and Jonathan Chey splintered from Boston's illustrious and much-missed Looking Glass software in the first place. When you look at where and how Irrational worked on their first game, it's easy to think of the claustrophobic horror of RPG/Shooter System Shock 2 as a pure product of its environment. They're all crammed into a single room – in fact, half of one, since it's one room bisected with screens. Viewed by any objective criteria, the small inexperienced team doesn't have the skills to achieve their aims. At every turn there's a crippling lack of resources. Everyone's panickedly fighting against a seemingly impossible, oppressive deadline.
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