


This modernizing retains the core immersive sim bliss of exploring Citadel Station and re-familiarizes gamers with the mother of all rogue A.I.’s, S.H.O.D.A.N. Almost a decade of development, a million-dollar Kickstarter campaign, and changing game engines later, System Shock (2023) is finally here, and it couldn’t be better. The studio broached remaking the 1994 original from Looking Glass Studios all the way back in 2015. Nightdive Studios’ System Shock has come a long way. Monster Mania is a weekly column celebrating the unique and varied monster designs in horror gaming. No release date has been confirmed for System Shock 3, but OtherSide confirmed the game is in the early conceptual stage of development.Monster Mania: System Shock’s S.H.O.D.A.N. Both games are currently available on modern systems, but it would be a nice bonus to see System Shock 2 remade as well before the release of System Shock 3. The two previous games' stories are loosely linked, but there's still enough crossover to make them worth playing in order. With the newest installment in the franchise, longtime fans will finally have an answer about SHODAN's ultimate fate. System Shock 2 ends on a cliffhanger, one that has remained unresolved since 1999. The game also spawned two spiritual successors in Deus Ex and Bioshock - both of which earned almost universal praise. The game helped to inspire a number of story-based action games, popularizing emergent gameplay and emphasizing player control of the game. Even so, the game's importance cannot be overstated.

System Shock was a critically acclaimed release, though it never turned into a financial success for Looking Glass.
