It's also surprising that, at the time, more people didn't see it coming, as the setup and delivery echo an equivalent reveal penned by Ken Levine in System Shock 2, the game to which BioShock was marketed as a spiritual successor. The flurry of half-baked ideas that follow - your plasmids don't work, you're sort of a Big Daddy - fail to rebuild the momentum which leads up to that clarifying moment. In fact, so successful is this scene that it ends up hurting the remainder of the game. The scene in which you finally encounter Andrew Ryan, your body buzzing with adrenaline after the rigmarole you've gone through to find this megalomaniac, only to be delivered the debilitating narrative gut-punch that you've been guided like a puppet the entire time, is often considered one of gaming's greatest feats of storytelling. System Shock’s remake is supposedly in the final stages of its development and is due out sometime this year for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, and PC.2007's BioShock blew everyone away with its momentous second-act twist. Spector is not involved in the remake’s development, though he does have a new game in the works at OtherSide Interactive (though System Shock 3 seems like a dead project at this point). Interestingly, the trailer is also followed by a brief interview with Warren Spector, legendary game designer and creator and director of the original System Shock. The trailer shows off glimpses of combat and the environments of the space station, while everyone’s favourite horrifying AI SHODAN is also front and center in the trailer. It’s looking all kinds of creepy, in just the right ways. Nightdive Studios promised it’d have something new to share at the PC Gaming Show 2022, and as many predicted, that turned out to be a new trailer for the studio’s ground-up remake of beloved horror shooter System Shock. Check it out below.
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