System Shock Reboot: live now on kickstarter, demo also available

I just finished Prey (2017) and got my System Shock kick that way. When played with immersion mods (especially UI mods), it comes remarkably close to System Shock.

If you love System Shock and haven't played Prey yet, you should! It made me hungry for more and now I can't wait for this reboot to come out.

 

Arkane's PREY is great.
And they made it as a spiritual successor to System Shock 2, as a lot of guys on the team were disappointed with BioShock's design was more of a straight forward shooter.

Originally had different internal working titles, like "Typhon"... there was even a a title that included the word "Shock" in it.
But, ZeniMax had to use the Prey title on something so the rights didn't lapse, so... it got put on Arkane's new project.

It's a great game.

 

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-system-...d-and-we-got-a-peek-at-its-completed-arsenal/

 

Do I need to have played the original System shock games to fully understand how to play this one?

 

Highly unlikely since it's a remake of the first one.

Gameplay wise it's not going to be anything like the original, even the remastered version of it is probably unapproachable for most of modern players.
Storywise it's still a first game and it _should_ explain itself, although besides meddling in the middle with logs and whatnot the story essentially is worth three sentences:
You are a criminal superhacker.
You get busted and instead of being put into slammer you get a deal to go onto corporate owned space station and sort its rogue AI issue out.
Rogue AI is defeated but as sequel proves - not eradicated entirely.

Essentially same stands for second game, where yet again - You defeat Shodan but not entirely.

Overarching story in SS games is as Carmack would've put it - porn movie backplot, it sets things in motion and that's about it.
There's more going on a granular level with each of the (dead) characters leaving audiologs and whatnot to give you a clearer picture of ongoings but it doesn't change first of last point of the story.

 

Game has finally gone gold and will be released on 30 May 2023.

https://presse.plaion.com/CODE-COMPLETE-SYSTEMS-ONLINE

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit only)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space

RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit only)
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770/AMD FX-8350 or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB/AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB or better
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space

 

Finally, but the release date was revealed march 14th already.

 

I didn't see it posted here so wasn't sure.

Pretty small game in terms of file size.

 

awesome. nostalgic game, gonna play this baby on release.