System Shock 3 isn't dead, and we may hear more within a year

SS2 remaster creators Nightdive hint astatine comeback

We past wrote astir immersive sim sequel System Shock 3 backmost successful 2020, erstwhile then-developers Otherside sold the franchise to megapublisher Tencent. Development of the bid aboriginal passed to remaster specialists Nightdive Studios, who’ve already overhauled the archetypal crippled and are presently moving connected a remaster of System Shock 2 for merchandise successful June.

Now, NightDive person popped up with quality that the System Shock 3 task survives, successful immoderate form, and that we could get clarification arsenic to its presumption “potentially wrong a year”. Don’t telephone it a comeback, bash telephone it a motion of life.

“The concern astir System Shock 3 is precise complicated,” Nightdive’s manager of concern improvement Larry Kuperman hedged astatine GDC this week, successful comments published by VGC.

Can we expect a due update anytime soon? “Not arsenic yet, not arsenic yet,” Kuperman went on. “I don’t cognize erstwhile it’s going to clarify, but it could perchance beryllium wrong a year. It could be, oregon it could instrumentality longer. That said, what I tin accidental is that we person visions of what we tin bash wrong what we control.

“You’re going to spot a remaster of System Shock 2,” helium added. “I’ve been asked doubly earlier contiguous wherefore we didn’t bash a remake, and I said, ‘are you someway nether the content that due to the fact that we bash a remaster that we won’t beryllium capable to bash a remake successful the future?’ That mightiness beryllium thing that I tin either corroborate oregon deny. But there’s going to beryllium contented coming out.”

So there’s your bonus header here: Nightdive mightiness bash a System Shock 2 remake aft the remaster. Asked astir the aboriginal of the bid beyond retreads of the existing games, Kuperman said: “We’ll spot what happens. I mean, there’s worldly that we tin bash wrong the archetypal and the second.” Some expansions then?

It’s each very… non-enlightening. But I’m blessed with immoderate motion that System Shock has a aboriginal beyond high-fi retreads of the classics, and Nightdive look similar they could hack a threequel. In our reappraisal of their System Shock remake, Jeremy Peel called it “a breathtakingly beauteous and astonishingly faithful remake that proves the enduring powerfulness of Looking Glass design.”

Jeremy’s besides got an interrogation with Nightdive detailing however the workplace got their hands connected the license, opening with a telephone chat with an security institution and ending with Nightdive’s acquisition by Atari.

As for Otherside – the workplace co-founded by archetypal System Shock devs Paul Neurath and Warren Spector - they’re presently moving connected a caller immersive sim, Thick As Thieves.