Eight years later – and a move to Unreal – Nightdive’s vision is upon us and what a spectacular remake it is, despite a rather rocky road to get here. Work started on the remake of Looking Glass’ action adventure game in 2015, funding through a successful crowd funding scheme and originally using Unity. I remember playing it with the lights on so I didn’t get spooked by infected crew members.įast forward to 2023 and we’ve seen the release of a remade System Shock from retro game specialist studio Nightdive Studios (Only available on PC at the moment but is coming to consoles later this year). System Shock 2 sees the player filling the combat boots of a solider who has to stop the spread of a genetic infection that has broken out on a starship and if my hazy memory serves me correctly it was a lot more gruesome and gory (for the time) than the original was. However it did enough to garner a sequel in 1999.

The game was universally praised for its gameplay by critics but was only a moderate commercial success.

Set aboard a space station in 2072, the player assumed the role of a hacker who must thwart the evil plans of Shodan, a genuinely unsettling AI who was quite terrifying. In 1994, Looking Glass Technologies introduced rogue AI Shodan to the world in the original System Shock.

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