Given System Shock's importance in the history of gaming, it's to be expected that Nightdive would want to recreate the elements of the title that cemented it as an innovative title in the first place. RELATED: Atomic Heart and System Shock Suggest 2023 Might be the Year of the 'Shock-like' System Shock's Faithfulness to its Source Material Both Helps and Hurts the Title The System Shock remake presents an interesting paradox where the visuals pay homage to the original game but are vastly improved, and the mechanics are still largely stuck in 1994. The game's sequel, System Shock 2, would be one of the first titles that Ken Levine spearheaded and would serve as the foundational basis for many of the mechanics that would reappear in BioShock. System Shock stands alongside Deus Ex and Half-Life as one of the first-person shooters that completely reinvented the genre upon its release and would go on to help spawn the first-person immersive sim subgenre. Still, the developer's choice to adhere closely to the original source material in how it crafted the remake presents an interesting case for examining the pros and cons of being too faithful to the original game when re-imagining it for modern hardware and a new audience. Nightdive has made a name for itself in the past by crafting quality ports of classic first-person shooters to modern platforms, but System Shock represents the company's first foray into a full ground-up remake, and an impressively ambitious one at that. Nightdive Studios' long-gestating remake of classic FPS System Shock finally released this week and the consensus surrounding the game is mostly positive.
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