System Shock doesn’t really give you a main objective instead most of its narrative is told through audio logs and text recordings you find on the Citadel Station. All the while doing all of this despite knowing that what happened to SHODAN is all your fault, as disabling the AI’s ethical parameters at the beginning is what turned it into the monster it is.įrom the beginning, you wake up from the Medical Deck, and you have no idea what’s going on or what to do. While SHODAN’s influence has spread throughout each level in the Citadel Station, you must stop it before it takes control of Earth too. The story of the System Shock puts you in the shoes of an unnamed hacker living in a Cyberpunk world who after waking up from cryostasis finds himself trapped in the Citadel Station being controlled by a malicious AI called SHODAN who has either slaughtered its inhabitants or turned them into slaves. While System Shock 3 might never see the light of day, this System Shock Remake may just be what the franchise needs. The IP itself was kind of in limbo after the closure of the original developers, Looking Glass Studios, but the license to bring it back to revival was picked up by Nightdive Studios who worked on updates for System Shock 2 back in 2012. The original back in 1994 may not have been a big success in sales but boy did it inspire a lot in modern gaming, even creating one of the most memorable villains of all time. As one of the most groundbreaking games of all time which inspired the likes of Bioshock and Half-Life, it’s about time we got a System Shock Remake.

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