The original game is still available – with a remastered version with modern controls and upscaled visuals – and is still worth playing regardless. So, pretty much, this takes us to where we are today, and with a Kickstarter to fully remake System Shock. Nightdive then, later, also obtained the rights for the original game. This, for many myself included, was something thought would never happen (much like Grim Fandango), and dived right in when it hit store fronts. In 2012, Nightdive Studios bought the rights for System Shock 2, which finally after many years and was re-released on GoG and Steam.

Looking Glass assets, which included rights to System Shock, were acquired by an insurance group at the time.

Looking Glass Studios – also known for Thief: The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age (two of my favourite games of all time! – DVD fever Ed) were behind the original release, but they shut down in 2000. System Shock Remake is out now, and the original was an absolute instant classic when it released 1994.

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