Yesterday, the folks at Nightdive Studios showcased a 7-minute gameplay trailer during The Weekly Twitch gaming show, which gives fans hope that maybe this time the studio will keep its promise and will eventually launch the game by the end of the summer.Īs far as the game's looks and feel, you are free to judge for yourself after watching the gameplay trailer released today.
Sometime this year, the release date of the System Shock reboot has been updated on Steam with a timeframe rather than a firm date: Summer 2021. Unfortunately, the game's release was delayed several times and it's definitely not because of the COVID-19 pandemic since Nightdive Studios adopted a remote work model long before 2020. The campaign was quite successful and managed to raise $1,350,000 by the end of the 30 days, although developers only asked for $900,000.
The development team at Nightdive is made up of some of the original System Shock team, so there are high hopes this reboot / reimagining will recapture some of that 90s PC gaming magic.Back in 2016, Nightdive Studios, a team of industry veterans, put up a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for their System Shock reboot. It's a non-linear adventure, with immersive sim gameplay that influenced everything from Half-Life to Metal Gear Solid. For the uninitiated, System Shock is an immersive first-person game set upon a spaceship packed with horrible enemies and ruled by a rogue AI called Shodan. Which is in keeping with the original System Shock, LookingGlass' hugely influential 1994 cyberpunk adventure. Enemies have multiple breakpoints and damage zones for you to mess about with - and mess is the word. The video below showcases this dismemberment system. More specifically, you can blow your enemies to pieces, letting you see for the first time the inside of a System Shock mutant, or behind the metallic panels of a Shock Bot. Meanwhile, Nightdive has unveiled System Shock's dismemberment system, which lets you do something you couldn't do in the original: see inside your enemies. Of course it looks dated now, but back in the mid-90s, I thought System Shock's cyberspace an impressive virtual realisation of the cyberspace featured in William Gibson's genre-defining novel Neuromancer. The video below, from YouTuber Blain Newport, shows off how cyberspace looks in the original System Shock. It's all pretty trippy - and very cyberpunk.
In the game, the player jacks in and transitions into a kind of Descent-style 3D space that involves moving through areas and shooting objects. Nightdive Studios has released a video showcasing the System Shock reboot's reimagined cyberspace.
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