SHTUP is a community project to update all of System Shock 2's textures with highly-faithful, community-produced high-res duplicates. It's a cool mod — along with a mod that dramatically upgrades the models, I replayed System Shock 2 about a year ago and my retinas hardly detached at all.

It's cool and all, but that's not what I'm talking about. Recently, a forumer over at Quarter to Three tried to identify these four people, so as to help SHTUP get higher-res image replacements.

You might recognize the images from System Shock 2 as the faces of the Recreation Deck's virtual prostitutes. Surprisingly, identifying them has been pretty hard, since the source images of the celebrities used seem to have been heavily altered.

Number 2 was quickly identified as Elizabeth Shue. But the identity of number four was a big surprise:

But that's perhaps not as surprising as the identity of prostitute number one:

That's right: it's frickin' Machiavelli.

System Shock 2 prostitute number 3's a big mystery, though. Anyone know who that is? Can you prove it? Let us know in the comments section. Florian Eckhardt

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