You’d better learn to love melee combat, because ammo is extremely scarce for most of the game. In System Shock – both the demo and the original – you start with a lead pipe. When the shooting starts, the looting starts I’m all for setting atmosphere, but when graphics prevent you from being able to make out enemies zapping you from a distance, there’s a problem. (speaking of which: a brightness setting would have been appreciated in the demo). Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, and the game quickly returned me back to the reality of dull, lifeless navy blue corridors with poor lighting. Initially, I walked into this room wielding my bloody pipe and thought, “Oh shit, now we’re getting somewhere.” I was ready for some spicy new environments, man-eating plants, whatever – to finally change up the formula. There are some scenes that offer hints of potential (kind of like the rest of the game). At best, it just looks weird.Īnd I don’t want to say that 100% of the game is graphically garbagio. I understand the rationale – to preserve the style of the original game – but the end result of this unholy chimera looks, at worst – awful. Except the enemies aren’t great-looking either. Well…Night Dive Studios decided to go with a hybrid old-and-new art style, which essentially means pixelated-looking (ugly) textures with higher-res models for creatures. Alas, in that time the supercomputer decided to go crazy and turn everyone into mutants and zombies. You succeeded, you got your implants, and you spent months healing from your surgery. Normally, you’d be shot for such an offense, but one of the execs at the company decided to make a deal with you instead: if you could hack this supercomputer on some space station orbiting Saturn, he’d give you some new dental implants because, like, your teeth looked awful. Apparently, in the past you tried to deface the website of some huge conglomerate but failed miserably and got caught by the feds. You start out as an unknown hacker waking up from a six-month coma. There’s definite potential here for an entertaining sci-fi horror-shooter, but it’s going to be a long way to that point.
The actual release date is set for December 30, 2020, but I’m not entirely sure if this is accurate based on the state of the game right now.Īnd with that bit of foreshadowing, here’s my hot take: the game is not good.
SYSTEM SHOCK REMAKE 2020 FULL
It’s been cited by Ken Levine as one of the major inspirations for Bioshock, and ditto for Warren Spector and Deus Ex (which, incidentally is one of my favorite games) – needless to say, it’s also a game that I had high hopes for.Īt some point, a company called Night Dive Studios secured the rights to the franchise, released the “enhanced edition” of System Shock 1, and started working on a full remake of the game.Ībout a week ago, the first demo of the game was released from its cage and thrust into the wilds at GOG.įirst things first: eagle-eyed readers might notice the words ALPHA BUILD in the right corner of the screenshot above.
SYSTEM SHOCK REMAKE 2020 PC
System Shock was an early ’90s title developed by Looking Glass that ended up being one of the most influential games in the sci-fi/cyberpunk genre of PC games. Mutant looking like a bad Spiderman costume someone found at Dollar Tree
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