In many ways I feel like I'm criticising an old game for being old, but this is a brand new 2023 release. It wouldn't even need to change that much - just give me an evidence board like Outer Wilds or Shadow of Doubt to log everything, over my personal chicken scratch of notes and question marks. I can forgive the original game because it's 30 years old but I was hoping a new interpretation would improve on what went before rather than repeat it.

Terri Brosius, the original voice of Shodan, is returning for the remake, and Nightdive says it has worked closely with other members of the original System Shock development team as well.I get that this is exactly how the original game was because I've played it, but I don't entirely understand why you would update the visuals and controls to present standards without adding a few other modern concessions, like maybe a little objective tracking or a more clearly labelled map. Our weekend editor Jody described the Shodan reveal in System Shock 2 as one of the great moments in PC gaming a few years ago, and he's not wrong. It was moderately successful, spawning a 1999 sequel (one of my favorite games of all time) and one of the most memorable villains in videogames, the mad machine-god Shodan.

Originally released in 1994, System Shock is an early immersive sim that tells the tale of a rogue space station AI in the year 2072. 'It will allow us to offer System Shock to fans all over the world, both in digital and physical goods formats, as well as fully honour our commitments to our fans and, in particular, to our thousands of supporters on Kickstarter, without whom this game would have never been possible.” This is Nightdive's first external publishing deal, and it represents 'an important step in the growth of Nightdive Studios,' CEO Stephen Kick said.

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