“Based on what I’ve seen of Prey so far, there are some similarities but I assure you we’re doing stuff that team didn’t do, just as they did stuff we’re not. “I think having more immersive simulation games out there is all to the good,” said Spector. Now that System Shock’s setting and storyline isn’t quite so unique, is Spector concerned about System Shock 3 failing to stand out among the pack?

The recent release of Prey, which pays obvious homage to System Shock developer Looking Glass Studios in myriad ways, may further point to the genre’s mainstream familiarity. Otherside Entertainment/StarbreezeĪs genre-defining as System Shock 2 and its predecessor were in the 1990s, the concept - “you alone on a space station,” as Spector called it - has come to feel commonplace these days, in the post- BioShock era. The game picks up where System Shock 2 left off, when - spoiler alert for the 1999 RPG - SHODAN takes the form of a human woman. Yet she’ll again play a significant role in System Shock 3, just as Spector told us last August. being that terrorizes the player throughout every System Shock game, is absent from what we saw today. “And there were some fictional loose ends to explore and tie up. “I produced System Shock and played System Shock 2 so I’m pretty familiar with the universe,” Spector said. Although he wasn’t involved with System Shock 2, Spector told Polygon that returning to the series after two-plus decades was an easy decision.

Spector’s return to the series comes more than 23 years after the original System Shock, hailed as an innovative action role-playing game at its time of release. Both are pieces of early concept art meant to set the tone for the cyperbunk action game, set on a lonely space station years in the future.

Polygon’s got some additional peeks at System Shock 3’s world, courtesy of Starbreeze, developer Otherside Entertainment and the game’s returning designer, Warren Spector. System Shock fans were treated to a new look at the game’s long-awaited sequel today, with new concept art shown off during a livestream event hosted by publisher Starbreeze Studios.

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