


Now, Nightdive Studios have come along after porting the original in 2015 with the Enhanced Edition. System Shock 2 would come to be in 1999, and the game would get two spiritual successors in Bioshock and Deus Ex. System Shock was certainly not forgotten - it's heralded as a classic today - it was just surrounded by indomitable quality in that early FPS space. It's fair to say, I think, that Doom left it behind in the popularity contest after hitting a year earlier, while Wolfenstein 3D was still entertaining after release in 1992, while Bungie's Marathon would soon find footing in the Mac market in 1996. When the game launched in 1994, it was at the forefront of FPS design, though it had adventure game lineage running through every Cyberpunk-encoded wire. System Shock (2022) is bringing 1995 back to realityĪ short history of the old PC cult classicLet's talk about System Shock's history, briefly.
