Now, Nightdive Studios have come along after porting the original in 2015 with the Enhanced Edition. System Shock 2 would come to be in 1999, and the game would get two spiritual successors in Bioshock and Deus Ex. System Shock was certainly not forgotten - it's heralded as a classic today - it was just surrounded by indomitable quality in that early FPS space. It's fair to say, I think, that Doom left it behind in the popularity contest after hitting a year earlier, while Wolfenstein 3D was still entertaining after release in 1992, while Bungie's Marathon would soon find footing in the Mac market in 1996. When the game launched in 1994, it was at the forefront of FPS design, though it had adventure game lineage running through every Cyberpunk-encoded wire. Night Dive Studios is also responsible for the recent Turok remaster and System Shock: Enhanced Edition.System Shock (2022) is bringing 1995 back to reality A short history of the old PC cult classicLet's talk about System Shock's history, briefly. It was recently announced that Deus Ex creator Warren Spector had joined the team to work on System Shock 3.

The studio revealed last year that it had acquired the rights to the System Shock franchise. We will keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved, while updating the user interface and graphics to use a modern day engine (Unity). You’ll be able to play it for yourself when System Shock Remastered hits Xbox One and PC next year.Īdditionally, Night Dive Studios is currently working on the upcoming System Shock 3. The developer says you can “see more” on the System Shock website, though for now it only hosts the YouTube video, description, and a SHODAN that follows your cursor around.Īfter 20 years, we are remastering and re-imagining the original System Shock. Night Dive says it will “keep the new game true to the classic experience”–you can still hit monsters with a pipe. The System Shock remake is developed in Unity, and the video shows off its new user interface and visuals. The first gameplay footage of the re-imagined game was released by developer Night Dive Studios on YouTube today. System Shock Remastered has seen the light of day.

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