

Does it look like System Shock 2? I mean, I guess so: darker, moodier, but Shock 2 was never the most visually distinctive game in the first place. This is a "pre-alpha state", apparently, and obviously it's very carefully curated micro-scenes on top of that, so there's only so much we can interpret about the final game from it. I'll share his Shock jabber further down the post, but let's start with the trailer itself.

This teaser came as part of Unity's trumpet-blowing about their shiny new features in last night's GDC keynote, as demonstrated by Wozza Specs hisself.

'Shock, traditionally, has been about pushing things forwards, not looking to the past, and what stronger statement could there be than to ditch its godhood-seeking figurehead? Make the big bad a disgruntled janitor named Susan instead, maybe.īut I won't pretend that I didn't experience a multitude of teenage kicks when I heard the returned voice of original SHODAN actor Terri Brosius, in this first teaser trailer for the belated third System Shock. Devil's advocate: I'd have been even more excited about Otherside's System Shock 3 if it didn't have revered murder-computer SHODAN in it.
