The game picks up where System Shock 2 left off, when - spoiler alert for the 1999 RPG - SHODAN takes the form of a human woman.Īs genre-defining as System Shock 2 and its predecessor were in the 1990s, the concept - “you alone on a space station,” as Spector called it - has come to feel commonplace these days, in the post- BioShock era.

Yet she’ll again play a significant role in System Shock 3, just as Spector told us last August. being that terrorizes the player throughout every System Shock game, is absent from what we saw today. “And there were some fictional loose ends to explore and tie up. “I produced System Shock and played System Shock 2 so I’m pretty familiar with the universe,” Spector said. Although he wasn’t involved with System Shock 2, Spector told Polygon that returning to the series after two-plus decades was an easy decision. Spector’s return to the series comes more than 23 years after the original System Shock, hailed as an innovative action role-playing game at its time of release. Both are pieces of early concept art meant to set the tone for the cyperbunk action game, set on a lonely space station years in the future. Polygon’s got some additional peeks at System Shock 3’s world, courtesy of Starbreeze, developer Otherside Entertainment and the game’s returning designer, Warren Spector. System Shock is a First Person Shooter but it isn't your traditional run and gun game.System Shock fans were treated to a new look at the game’s long-awaited sequel today, with new concept art shown off during a livestream event hosted by publisher Starbreeze Studios. Shaking from adrenalin and information overload, you scarcely have time to think before SHODAN unleashes yet another terror. Multi-function displays pump information to the screen, describing artifacts, warning of biohazards and radiation, analyzing targeted foes, and decrypting cyberspace messages. Creeping past armies of cyborgs and robots, you find hardware that grafts to your powersuit and neural apparatus, including infrared cyber-eyes, jump-jet boots and an arsenal of weapons. With your neural implant, you can 'jack' into cyberspace (SHODAN's realm) to steal clues to the mystery. The crew has been mutated beyond recognition to serve SHODAN, a ruthless computer that cont.

An indentured hacker, you awake from a healing coma on board the space station Citadel only to find yourself in the twisted aftermath of a mutiny. In System Shock, biological engineering and automation merge in a raging storm completely out of human control.

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