Play the System Shock Remastered Demo Right Now on PC

Oops. I submitted a post elsewhere about how this wasn't covered. My bad. I did do a search but got nothing. Anyway, thanks for covering this GS. It's huge!

System shock 2 was one of the first games that I had ever played, and dear god it was amazing. Night Dive Studios if you screw any of this up, I will find you. Use my money well.

This was one of my alltime favorite games. The sound design is still better in System Shock 2 than any modern game I've seen done since. I'm a little worried the Kickstarter won't be able to remaster how incredible it really was. They could just keep the sounds the same really as I don't see any way to improve on them.

I'm a big fan of the series so I just backed it. :)

most impressive

I was amazed after the announcement but the dome convinced me - I'm backing this up :P

For a pre-Alpha build, this looks more polished than most of the asset flip crap that comes out on Steam.

In the words of Jim Sterling, it looks like it was made by people who actually gave a crap.

Have to give this a try! Smart move Night Dive

Hey, that's pretty good!

Yes.

Well, it crashed on me after about 15 minutes. Performance is pretty bad for how it looks, but we are talking about an early build here.

Beyond that though, this is straight up System Shock. Stuff is right where I remember it (or think I remember it) and the small changes they've made to the interface and the level design seem smart. A much more modern FPS UI, witch quick slots and weapon swapping on the mouse wheel go a long way to fixing up this classic for today's sensibilities.

The graphics are pretty good for a unity game, but we're not talking AAA looks here, and the textures are kind of pixelated up close ... but since that actually makes them look a little like old System Shock I don't think I mind. Still, this remaster has a got a good strong "look" to it. It's System Shock, and you can tell it's System Shock, but it also feels fresh. This is due in part to the original game being so old it was hard to tell what objects in the game were, and also because this remaster lays the lighting and smoke effects on thick. Imagine the 2009 Enterprise bridge, but with half the lights turned out and a fog machine. It's not hard to see, it's just hard to be totally sure there isn't a mutant down the hallway, and that really helps recreate the constant feeling of unease I had navigating Citadel in 1994.

I'll fire the demo back up again and keep poking, but as far as remaking a classic goes, System Shock Remastered looks real promising.

Does not work with MS-DOS :-(

Hot damn! If the demo is good, I might break my no Kickstarter streak.

I thought Night Dive Studios just owned the rights to the franchise. The ones who are developing the third game are a team comprised of the devs behind the earlier SS games.