{"id":43841,"date":"2023-05-29T16:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/system-shock-review-feels-more-like-a-remaster-than-a-remake\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:10:44","slug":"system-shock-review-feels-more-like-a-remaster-than-a-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/system-shock-review-feels-more-like-a-remaster-than-a-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"System Shock review: &#8220;feels more like a remaster+ than a remake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/system-shock-review-feels-more-like-a-remaster-than-a-remake_6474ce8414536-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/system-shock-review-feels-more-like-a-remaster-than-a-remake_6474ce8414536-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/system-shock-review-feels-more-like-a-remaster-than-a-remake_6474ce8414536-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have to admire the exactness with which Nightdive Studios has recreated 1994&#8217;s System Shock in a more modern FPS framing. But I also can&#8217;t help but feel that, nearly 30 years later, it could have let a little bit of 2023 in. Visual upgrades aside, this new interpretation follows the original so exactly that I was able to use an original game door code from memory (not the 451 one, the one after), and much of the text and dialogue is word-for-word what went before. And, while that might sound impressively accurate, it does mean that although the visual jank of the 1990&#8217;s style flat sprite fake 3D and terrible controls have been replaced with a nice chunky neon sci-fi FPS refit, the three-decade-old design jank of obtuse objective signposting and minimal guidance remains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/system-shock-remake-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admire the exactness with which Nightdive Studios has recreated 1994&#8217;s System Shock in a more modern FPS framing. But I also can&#8217;t help but feel that, nearly 30 years later, it could have let a little bit of 2023 in. Visual upgrades aside, this new interpretation follows the original so exactly that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43844,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions\/43844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}