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”.