![]() ![]() Her frankly amazing voiceover, coupled with the new ambient sounds and subtle lighting effects, create a dark and foreboding atmosphere that is intoxicatingly chilling. The map layout, enemies, items, UI are all faithful reproductions from the original game, but more exciting is the return of Terri Brosius as the voice of SHODAN, one of the creepiest and memorable of gaming’s antagonists. As such, it’s nowhere near finished yet, but it’s enough to show promise. OK, enough of the gushing, what are we looking at here? This is the pre-alpha demo of System Shock. Think of a skilled craftsman restoring a 16th century castle into a modern home – that’s what Nightdive Studios are aiming for and, from what I’ve seen so far, are largely achieving! Something tells me that this guy need a good swedging This brings about the most major change – high resolution textures and lighting effects – but every area of the game has been taken and delicately tweaked to bring about this transformation. There was just something about the entire concept that appealed to me – you wake up as a nameless hacker on Citadel space station wherein the AI, SHODAN, has gone postal and is in the process of doing rather nasty things to the inhabitants, and its up to you to stop her.īut that was then, what have they done now? How have they changed the game? Well… the short answer is… they haven’t! The new System Shock, launching next year, is a from-the-ground-up remake of the original game, but this time using the Unity game engine. The thing is, despite the fear and the cold sweats, I loved System Shock. And now they’re making a new one… Lot’s of blood? Check. Yes, it was terrifying, one of the scariest games I’ve ever played – up there with the likes of Silent Hill. Even now, 22 years later, just hearing the title jump-starts my ageing memories of genuine fear and abject terror. ![]() How little I knew, how naive I was, but to be fair – how was I supposed to know that I was about to play one of the greatest genre-defining first person shooters of all time? System Shock. It is 1994, and I’m sitting apprehensively in front of my new Pentium PC, waiting for my new game to load. ![]()
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