

First, you’re in an apartment littered with trash-tier future tech, cyberpunk detritus that betrays the dystopian universe of System Shock. The biggest improvement in this remake is System Shock’s aesthetic.


However, a few systems feel long in the tooth and might hinder the enjoyment of people coming to the game for the first time. It’s a celebration of everything that made the original so great, blending in some of the parts from 1999’s System Shock 2. Remake developers Nightdive Studios have made an entire career out of treating gaming history with reverence, and System Shock is no different. But it all started here, a battle of wills between a hacker and a rogue AI. You can draw a clear line of inspiration from the 1994 first-person adventure game to immersive sims like 2000’s Deus Ex, 2007’s Bioshock, and 2017’s Prey.
