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The System Shock remake - which is to say not System Shock 3, which is being made by a team that includes Looking Glass co-founder Paul Neurath alongside Warren Spector, nor the System Shock Enhanced Edition, which is from the same team that's behind the remake - has just received a short playable demo that confirms the fan favourite is in very capable hands. The Kickstarter campaign for the remake only went live yesterday, and a playable demo that's a small proof of concept shows it's on the right tracks. It might be developer Night Dive's first proper game - prior to this they've worked on remasters, such as the aforementioned dusting off of the original System Shock - but they clearly know what they're doing.
I'll admit to having only very dim recollections of the original System Shock, playing it one evening around a friend's house in-between watching episodes of Baywatch and eating Lucky Charms or whatever it was we all did in the 90s, but this remake seems faithful to them. What I love best about Night Dive's sensitive take is how it straddles modern conventions with an aesthetic that's very much of its time - this remake plays like a contemporary game, but lo-fi texture work grounds it in its period. I took a handful of snaps which will hopefully give you some idea of how it all looks.
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