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System Shock remake for PC launches late this summer, new demo now available

The System Shock remake will launch for PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store late this summer, and a new demo is now available on each storefront, developer Nightdive Studios announced. An A…

www.gematsu.com

The System Shock remake will launch for PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store late this summer, and a new demo is now available on each storefront, developer Nightdive Studios announced. An Amazon Luna version will also be available at launch.

Pre-orders are available now for $44.99 and include the upcoming updated classic System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition as a free incentive.

About

The new System Shock is a complete remake of the groundbreaking immersive sim, first released in 1994. Players, in the space-boots of an unnamed hacker who awakes after a six-month snooze, finds Citadel Station in quite the state. Murderous robots, killer cyborgs, and malicious mutants have run amok. And the station’s AI, SHODAN, seems to have developed quite the God complex.

Nightdive has given the entirely remade System Shock the full treatment, recreating the fan-favorite title for modern players with all-new HD visuals, updated controls, revamped hacking, and a renovated Citadel Station with all sorts of new areas and secrets to uncover.

Key Features

• The Return of SHODAN – The talented Terri Brosius returns to bring her unique vocal venom to the villainous AI SHODAN
• Hackers Gonna Hack – System Shock features a totally revamped hacking system featuring new 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) gameplay, providing new enemies and challenges
• Familiar but… Different – Citadel Station is bigger and more terrifying than ever with all-new areas, traps, puzzles, and of course, plenty of secrets to uncover
• The Sound of Terror – Re-recorded audio logs provide players with a drip-feed of horrifying lore as they piece together exactly what went wrong for the dwellers of Citadel Station
• Robots and Zombies and Lasers… Oh My – Blast, smash, and occasionally flee from re-imagined enemies like angry Repair-Bots, “Hopper” Mobile Lasers, mutants, cyborgs, and all kinds of bloodthirsty monsters and aggressive automatons

 

[Marcus Aurelius]

Hope they don't butcher the source material

 

[namekuseijin]

SS2 EE is getting VR support soon

 

[Kuranghi]

I never played 1 back in the day and tried 2 about 10 years ago but forgot about it, this makes me really excited to try it. Its really great that you get SSH2:Enhanced as well.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Put it in me. I was hoping to get a release window at the end. Ugh.

 

[Tickle My Tendies]

Put it in me. I was hoping to get a release window at the end. Ugh.

Same....hopefully we find out soon enough

 

[moniker]

Put it in me. I was hoping to get a release window at the end. Ugh.

The Kickstarter e-mail that just went out says "we are planning on a late Summer 2021 release date."

 

[SF Kosmo]

Hope they don't butcher the source material

It looks to stay very faithful to the original, down to the specific map layouts and everything.

They had at one point attempted to do a looser remake in a more modern style, but feature creep blew the scope out beyond what they could handle, so they went back to their original concept and kept it a pretty faithful remake.

The graphics are obviously heavily remade but still use low res unfiltered textures for a retro flavor and stay very true to the designs of the original. The UI and controls obviously feel a lot better, thank god.

Try the demo, it's pretty good.

 

[Kerlurk]

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[Noncanon Ship]

Hope they don't butcher the source material

The team that they brought on board originally to make the first demo for the kickstarter included Rob Waters, who was the original concept artist for System Shock (and for the Bioshock games). He, the lead artist, and the rest of that team involved in the project from the start left Nightdive after they switched engines started to depart from the vision of the original System Shock and its aesthetic. Nightdive got the original team back by acknowledging they made a mistake with the new direction, and returning to preserving the vision of the source material.

Considering the original team felt strongly enough to leave over them losing that original vision, and were then convinced to come back after Nightdive admitted they were taking it in the wrong direction, I feel good about where they're going with it now.

This is a good 11-min Noclip interview with Nightdive's ceo and it delves into the development problems they had with this:

 

[AJUMP23]

This game creeped me out so much when I played it originally.

 

[MiguelItUp]

The Kickstarter e-mail that just went out says "we are planning on a late Summer 2021 release date."

UGH! Thank you so much for that! <3

 

[Tickle My Tendies]

Updated OP with followin info, would change thread title if I could

System Shock remake for PC launches late this summer, new demo now available

The System Shock remake will launch for PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store late this summer, and a new demo is now available on each storefront, developer Nightdive Studios announced. An A…

www.gematsu.com

The System Shock remake will launch for PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store late this summer, and a new demo is now available on each storefront, developer Nightdive Studios announced. An Amazon Luna version will also be available at launch.

Pre-orders are available now for $44.99 and include the upcoming updated classic System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition as a free incentive.

About

The new System Shock is a complete remake of the groundbreaking immersive sim, first released in 1994. Players, in the space-boots of an unnamed hacker who awakes after a six-month snooze, finds Citadel Station in quite the state. Murderous robots, killer cyborgs, and malicious mutants have run amok. And the station’s AI, SHODAN, seems to have developed quite the God complex.

Nightdive has given the entirely remade System Shock the full treatment, recreating the fan-favorite title for modern players with all-new HD visuals, updated controls, revamped hacking, and a renovated Citadel Station with all sorts of new areas and secrets to uncover.

Key Features

• The Return of SHODAN – The talented Terri Brosius returns to bring her unique vocal venom to the villainous AI SHODAN
• Hackers Gonna Hack – System Shock features a totally revamped hacking system featuring new 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) gameplay, providing new enemies and challenges
• Familiar but… Different – Citadel Station is bigger and more terrifying than ever with all-new areas, traps, puzzles, and of course, plenty of secrets to uncover
• The Sound of Terror – Re-recorded audio logs provide players with a drip-feed of horrifying lore as they piece together exactly what went wrong for the dwellers of Citadel Station
• Robots and Zombies and Lasers… Oh My – Blast, smash, and occasionally flee from re-imagined enemies like angry Repair-Bots, “Hopper” Mobile Lasers, mutants, cyborgs, and all kinds of bloodthirsty monsters and aggressive automatons

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Huh I thought this was canceled

Will give the demo a go hopefully my 1660ti is enough to play.

 

[MiguelItUp]

GOD YES! SO excited!

Huh I thought this was canceled

Will give the demo a go hopefully my 1660ti is enough to play.

Nah, that was System Shock 3 I believe. But then again, I don't know if they ever really came out and said it was canceled?...

 

[mansoor1980]

looks awesome, and is this running on UE4?

 

[lostinblue]

From Wikipedia:

Veteran designer Chris Avellone and members of the Fallout: New Vegas development team are helping Night Dive Studios with the game.

Is Chris Avellone still working on this?

 

[TintoConCasera]

Looks great! All the colors ans the funky music might be missing, but I think the new atmosphere is more fitting for it's design.

I never got to try the first one, looked to outdated to my tastes, but I'll gladly try this one out as soon as I can.

Have you people tried the last demo? How is it?

 

[Noncanon Ship]

looks awesome, and is this running on UE4?

Yep they switched from Unity to UE4 and so they had to restart development.

Is Chris Avellone still working on this?

Funny, I was just looking into this yesterday. He was the lead narrative designer on it but hasn't worked on it since 2017. I'm not sure exactly the circumstances surrounding his departure but it was well before the news this summer. They've never made a statement about whether his writing is still in the game or if it was part of the stuff that was scrapped along with the code/art/level design after changing directions.

 

[Life]

Not even a release date? Too early to get excited then. Assuming it's still a way off.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Not even a release date? Too early to get excited then. Assuming it's still a way off.

Some dude said earlier in this thread that they are aiming for this Summer.

 

[Life]

Some dude said earlier in this thread that they are aiming for this Summer.

That's quite soon. I would have at least put a season in there for people to keep in the back of their mind.

 

[Umbasaborne]

Wasnt this supposed to be out years ago?

 

[Fuz]

Cautiously hyped.