The tricky thing about nostalgia titles is just how much we forget their faults. (Emphasis mine.) This was exactly what I was looking for: The game as I remember it. Many improvements, overhauls and changes are being implemented to capture the spirit of what the original game was trying to convey, and bring it to contemporary gamers. But what really made me glad to put my money in was this blurb from the Kickstarter:Ī modern take on System Shock, a faithful reboot it’s not Citadel Station as it was, but as you remember it. So when I saw that Nightdive Studios was crowdfunding a remake of System Shock, I didn’t have much choice in the matter. The sequel, System Shock 2, is often considered one of the greatest games of all time. It’s a game I loved so much I novelized it. It was the first of the immersive sim games, making it the progenitor of Thief, Deus Ex, BioShock, Prey, and (to a lesser extent) the Dishonored series. It was bound to happen sooner or later, but it really is a shame it happened to this project in particular.Īs I’ve said before, the 1994 classic System Shock was a really important game, both for the industry and on a personal level. I backed a Kickstarter project that spent the money and didn’t manage to create a product. The developers will be launching a Kickstarter campaign very shortly so watch this space for further information.This Dumb Industry: The Death of System Shock In fact the project hasn’t even received the funding it needs yet to come to fruition. Unfortunately the game is not looking like it will be released any time soon. Taken straight from their website, the developers claim that they “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).” Now, more than two decades later, developer ‘Night Dive Studios’ is attempting to re-create the classic game for the modern age. In many ways the game lead the charge for story driven, first-person, action games with titles such as Deus Ex and BioShock being built directly on top of the foundation that System Shock laid. The first-person ARPG was ground-breaking in many respects and was received with huge critical acclaim. When it first released way back in 1994 System Shock became an instant classic.
Courtesy of Polygon, today we have received over 8 minutes of gameplay footage for the modern remake of System Shock.
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