System Shock is a first-person shooter but a lot has changed since its original conception.

Of course, Shodan is the star of the show and this game perfectly encapsulates why Shodan’s face adorns the profile pictures of gamers from all walks of social media. You’ll be reading and listening to a lot of notes, not only to figure out the story but also to get hints of objectives and codes to unlock areas. The new cutscenes that open the game are a fantastic way of drawing players into the cyberpunk world of System Shock and the voice acting throughout just adds a new layer to the story. If you have, there isn’t much new story as far as I can tell from what I’ve played of the original, time be damned.

This may be a story from 1994, but it hasn’t aged a day and will keep players guessing from the get-go unless you’ve played through the game before. You’ll team up with one of the few surviving members of the crew in a bid to stop Shodan and figure out just why these events were set in motion. To top it all off, Shodan fancies themselves as a God and plans to prove this by laying waste to the Earth. It now controls the ship, having filled it full of rogue robots, and mutants. When you finally wake up, you find out that just maybe, removing ethics from Shodan wasn’t the best move. With a handy neural interface given to you for the task, on your arrival at the station, you remove the restraints and are put into a medical coma for your trouble. called Shodan or spend your days rotting. Brought before the CEO, you’re given a choice to either help them by removing all ethical restraints on the station’s A.I. System Shock sees the main character, a hacker, land themself in some deep water with the omnipresent TriOptimum Corporation by hacking their way into files on a space station called Citadel Station. When legacy gaming meets modern gaming it begs the question, can what is old be new once again? Find out in this remake review. In 2023 Nightdive Studios released System Shock, hoping to give newer sets of eyes an education in what came before, not to mention making sure no one forgets the name Shodan. This title pioneered not only the immersive simulation genre but opened the eyes of games to the world of Sci-Fi horror A genre that would eventually spawn a ‘little-known’ franchise called Bioshock. Back in 1994, Looking Glass Studios would release System Shock.

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