System Shock Remastered Edition Preview

While we still don’t have a release date for Nightdive Studios’ System Shock remaster, for a while now, all signs have been pointing to an imminent release. And so, it’s no surprise that we now get this PC Gamer preview that highlights several updated weapon models and lets us know that the game is pretty much ready, and should be launching in a few months following some extensive QA.

Here’s a quick excerpt:

The System Shock remake’s six year journey included a 2018 U-turn, when Nightdive decided it was changing too much from the original game. “We tried to stay very true to canon. That was something that was really important to us, that our core audience who are fans of System Shock can look at this and go ‘yes, this is what I was looking for. It’s the game that I know, but with polish.'”

Where Nightdive touched System Shock’s design, the changes have been minor: streamlining the number of grenades into a multi-function grenade, for example. “Every person on the team has invested hours and hours into how the original gameplay worked, but we also want to make sure this has a modern feel,” Kuperman said. That meant adding touches like multiple reload animations for each weapon and messages that flicker across the screens of Citadel Station’s CRT monitors.