Nightdive Studios is making good on a six-year-old promise: a remastered model of the traditional Looking Glass sport System Shock 2. Nightdive and Sony revealed a trailer for System Shock 2: twenty fifth Anniversary Remaster, in addition to a launch date of June twenty sixth for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles.
As the identify suggests, it is a touched-up model of System Shock 2, not a complete remake like Nightdive’s (superb) 2023 tackle System Shock. The trailer and screenshots on Sony’s announcement weblog publish exhibit some gentle visible updates, however they seem like sharpened variations of issues like enemy fashions — sustaining the texture of a 25-year-old sport with rather less blur. (Your weapons have seen fingers holding them now, too.)
An even bigger deal for many individuals could be an up to date, console-friendly model of its difficult mouse and keyboard interface, together with DualSense help and a quickbar for weapons and skills. If you’re nostalgic for the previous RPG overlay look, although, the visible design seems practically unchanged. There’s even cross-play help for the sport’s notoriously rocky cooperative multiplayer mode.
According to Nightdive’s web site and feedback from a moderator within the studio Discord server, the sport is meant to incorporate among the authentic’s present neighborhood mods on prime of providing broader mod help. The Discord moderator says the remaster will ship with the SS2 Community Patch or SCP, which rebalances some irritating options, amongst different patches. (This was mentioned by Nightdive again in 2020.) We’ve reached out to Nightdive to substantiate the main points on what precisely mod help will seem like, together with how the remastered model may play with the ShockEd fan mission editor. The System Shock 2 neighborhood has been primarily remastering the sport for many years, however an official model makes these efforts loads simpler to seek out.
