Last year Night Dive Studios announced they were making a remaster of the original System Shock game but now it’s going to be a complete reboot. The game will be funded through Kickstarter which starts on Tuesday 28th June and also a short demo will be released through GOG, Humble and Steam on PC.
System Shock is still getting remastered, but don’t call it System Shock Remastered anymore.
Just ahead of the game’s Kickstarter campaign launch, developer Night Dive Studios told Polygon that the upcoming re-imagination of Looking Glass Technologies’ 1994 game has a new name now: System Shock.
“We felt that the amount of passion and resources that we are putting into this game elevated it beyond the expectations that someone would have for a remaster,” CEO Stephen Kick said. “This is a full-fledged reboot of a classic game into something new.”
We’ve gotten glimpses of the reboot through early alpha footage and screenshots. When the crowdfunding campaign starts at 12 p.m. PT next Tuesday, June 28, nostalgic backers and the genuinely curious alike will have a chance to actually play System Shock themselves. A short demo of the Windows PC version will be made available to anyone through Steam, GOG and Humble the same day that the Kickstarter opens.
Source: Polygon
