After UNN (albeit under TriOptimum grant) scientist Marie Delacroix discovers the secret of faster than light travel, UNN and TriOptimum mount a joint mission to Tau Ceti. The game is set 42 years after the first game due to the events of the first game, anti- Mega-Corp outrage resulted in the formation of the Unified National Nominate, the quasi-socialist world government. It was developed by Looking Glass Studios and Irrational Games, and published by Electronic Arts, releasing on August 11, 1999. (Night Dive recently released an enhanced version of the original System Shock.System Shock 2 is a First-Person Shooter/ Immersive Sim with Survival Horror and RPG Elements and the sequel to System Shock. That came about only recently, in partnership with Night Dive Studios, which currently owns that trademark. The studio says it secured exclusive rights to make sequels to the System Shock series years ago, but not the right, crucially, to use the name in a sequel. OtherSide Entertainment formed last year, rounding up veteran Looking Glass Studio members and billing itself as an outfit “focused on rebooting classic game franchises.” Its first project, currently underway, is an Ultima Underworld followup dubbed Underworld Ascendant - a first-person dungeon-delver crafted in the spirit of Origin Systems’ original series.

If you visit the teaser site and turn up the volume, yes, that’s original series actress Terri Brosius reprising her role as the nightmarish artificial intelligence.

Looking Glass founder Paul Neurath as well as System Shock 2 senior artist Nate Wells and lead concept artist Robb Waters (for both games) are involved with the sequel, and you can see Waters’ reconceptualization of SHODAN in that spooky shot above. System Shock 2, a narrative sequel jointly developed by Looking Glass and Irrational Games (the latter went on to develop the first and third BioShock games), arrived five years later in August 1999. Developed by famed studio Looking Glass Technologies (eventually Looking Glass Studios), it debuted on MS-DOS PCs in September 1994. The original System Shock was about a hacker conscripted to free an A.I. If you don’t count the BioShock games, dubbed spiritual successors to the original cyberpunk System Shock duology, we’ve been waiting over a decade-and-a-half to find out what happens next.

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