Nightdive reveals a perfect, immortal System Shock trailer at the PC Gaming Show

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I'm a fan of System Shock(opens in new tab) and so I have to acknowledge that there's definitely some bias involved, but Nightdive Studios revealed a brand new trailer for the upcoming remake today at the PC Gaming Show and I am here to tell you that it is a serious banger.

The trailer has a little bit of everything: Action, horror, smoky shadows, neon lights, and of course SHODAN, the perfect, immortal machine, whose narration literally gives me goosebumps. She may be murderously insane, but it's good to hear that voice again.

What I especially like, though, is the way the trailer looks like how I remember System Shock from way back when. Obviously it's come a long way over the past 30 years, but this is how I see that world through the cloudy lens of memory. That, more than a note-for-note do-over, is what I really want from the System Shock remake: Capture that essence of the original in a modern take, and I am there.

We still don't have a release date for the System Shock remake, but I feel like it has to be getting close. Today's trailer is leaps and bounds beyond what Nightdive has shown previously, and director of business development Larry Kuperman said that development «is largely complete.»

«You can play through it from beginning to end, all weapons and enemies are in place and working,» Kuperman said. «What remains to be done is what is termed 'polish.' Our goal is that the release version is as close to perfection as possible.»

There's still a little bit of a wait ahead, though. «Since we are supporting consoles as well as PC, it is an iterative process,» Kuperman said. «Testing and tweaking over and over again.»

After the reveal of the new trailer, original System Shock mastermind Warren Spector took a few