The mood and visuals of this modern System Shock remake are unlike anything else we’ve played in recent memory.
The dark atmosphere makes light sources pop as they illuminate the environment, and each model in the scene gives off accurate shadows, making this world feel believable. From a distance, hallways look immaculate, with each protruding lump on the wall being a fully modeled mesh of polygons, not simple bump-mapped textures. The game is almost always dancing the line between detailed and low-poly. An early sequence has you sitting behind your desk, logging into a funky laptop, and the items on your desk are angular, and even the donuts are pixellated. Nightdive Studios isn’t trying to hide that System Shock is an older game with a complete overhaul, it’s just trying to make that experience palatable to modern tastes while looking and feeling as authentically old-school as possible.įor example, textures and models are rarely too detailed. But System Shock goes a little bit further than that, and even evokes the look of an early 90s game. What we need is System Shock, with all the puzzles, items, enemy placements, and everything else that made the game iconic, but with modern controls and menus so someone younger than 30 can play it without having to learn to drive a stick-shift. If you want to see what kind of game could hold that kind of acclaim but you’re younger than 38, then you will need to play the System Shock remake. But System Shock is considered a classic – not a cult classic, but an actual classic – and heavily inspired the legendary BioShock series. If you’ve tried to pick up the game since then, you probably hit a brick wall. The original System Shock was released in 1994, long before FPS shooter controls or even 3D navigation had become standardized across the industry. Unless you played System Shock at least 20 years ago, the chances are you’ll find even the Enhanced Edition of the original game to be a bit awkward to play.
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