The System Shock remake gets seven minutes of new gameplay

Nightdive Studios has published seven minutes of gameplay of its System Shock remake.

The System Shock video, below, includes plenty of skulking about in the Research level of Citadel Station.

I think it looks pretty impressive – the visuals are appropriately atmospheric, with plenty of sparky visual effects. There’s a sense of foreboding, which System Shock should have. We see enemies who lurch towards the player once they’re disturbed. The video ends with a quite terrifying fight against a large robot who takes an age to go down.

It’s been a long and eventful road for the System Shock remake, which was originally intended to be a remaster of Looking Glass’ classic first-person sci-fi horror before ballooning in scope. By the time its Kickstarter commenced in July 2016, it was being referred to as a “reboot” and, after a rocky period of development, Nightdive announced it was putting the project on hiatus after letting “things get out of control”.