My hope is that Nightdive’s remake continues to capture the authentic experience of the original, so that gamers everywhere can come to know what it is to fear SHODAN. So far, Nightdive’s demo feels like System Shock, now with more intuitive movement, facilitated HUD navigation, and updated graphics, which is exactly what I think fans of the original, myself included, have been wanting. Remaking a game as unusual and distinctive as System Shock is obviously difficult even its own sequel, System Shock 2, made a lot of changes to the System Shock formula that shifted the core experience of the game towards something more like Deus Ex. Lastly, I was really excited to check out Nightdive’s interpretation of Cyberspace, but the first terminal I found didn’t seem to be operable in this demo. The gun came with one type of ammo, but I only ever picked up a different type that I couldn’t seem to swap out for. I also couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to switch my pistol’s ammo out. The demo doesn’t allow you to save, so after I died early on in my first run, I had to start from the beginning. At first, I had some camera wackiness as I passed through doorways or went from room to room, but the longer I played, the more unstable my camera movement became.
It took me about an hour to complete the demo.
I wasn’t afraid of her because I knew her.
Slowly, I regained my footing, and as I approached the end of the demo, I could feel my confidence coming back. I felt lost, scrambling for traction, all the while I knew SHODAN could see my every move, my every dead end. For a while I stood there, watching these tubes breathe in and out, and I felt even more insecure and vulnerable than I had in the original. Various tubes and panels almost seemed to be breathing, as if SHODAN herself was embodied in the station, and I was navigating her interior. SHODAN’s presence felt somehow even more pervasive as I walked along corridor after corridor.
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