There’s some bad-ish information when you’ve been eagerly awaiting developer Nightdive’s System Shock 2 remaster on consoles. The studio has been pressured to delay the remaster’s PlayStation 5, PS4, Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox One, and Swap launch, however – good-ish information time – solely by a few weeks because it seeks to treatment undisclosed “points”.
Nightdive introduced it could be remastering BioShock developer Irrational Video games’ critically acclaimed – and massively influential – 1999 FPS/RPG sci-fi horror hybrid again in 2019, nevertheless it wasn’t till earlier this yr that the challenge acquired a brand new identify (it is now formally often known as the System Shock 2: twenty fifth Anniversary Remaster) and a twenty sixth June launch date for all platforms.
Nevertheless, the studio has now introduced a brief delay for the console variations in a press release on social media, saying it has “encountered points which have prevented us from launching System Shock 2: twenty fifth Anniversary Remaster on consoles… on twenty sixth June as initially meant.” Nightdive provides that it is “at the moment working to deal with these points as rapidly as doable”, however that the console launch is now “concentrating on the primary two weeks of July.”
As for the PC model, that is managed to retain its twenty sixth June launch date and can launch for Steam, GOG, the Humble Retailer, and Epic on twenty sixth June as initially introduced. “We’ll replace everybody as quickly as we have now a set launch date for consoles,” Nightdive’s assertion concludes.
Nightdive’s System Shock 2: twenty fifth Anniversary Remaster, which follows on from 2023’s extraordinarily well-received System Shock 1 remake, guarantees enhancements to characters, weapon fashions, textures, cinematics, and animations. That is alongside high quality of life enhancements, optimised controller assist, up to date co-op multiplayer, and achievements. PC gamers can even anticipate mod assist, as much as 144fps, and ultra-widescreen compatibility.
At its coronary heart, although, it is nonetheless the identical acclaimed System Shock 2 launched within the hazy days of 1999, taking gamers onboard the FTL ship Von Braun within the yr 2114 for one more battle of wits with rogue AI SHODAN. “Hybrid mutants and lethal robots roam the halls whereas the cries from the remaining crew reverberate by means of the chilly hull of the ship,” Nightdive explains. “SHODAN… has taken over, and it is as much as you to cease her.”
As Eurogamer contributor Rick Lane wrote of System Shock 2 again in 2015 (beware spoilers!), “It is the best work that each Trying Glass and Irrational ever produced… and if that does not provide you with a shout of being the perfect recreation in existence, I am unsure what does.”
