"We've got a bunch of gameplay systems in mind that we're absolutely not going to talk about today.
Living on this station, or unliving on this station, are only robots, mutants and the dead. It's a world which was once alive with activity but is now controlled by a rogue AI named SHODAN.
"We want players to feel alone in a strange and dangerous place, a station on the outskirts of our solar system. If you can't or won't watch the video, I've transcribed the few details he gave away for you: GDC Keynote - Unity for Games MaTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.Īlways a treat to hear Wozza say "immersive simulations". System Shock 3 creative director Warren Spector - he of the original Shock, Deus Ex, Ultima Underworld and a bit of Thief - presented the trailer at GDC last night - his bit starts at around 1hr 28m into the video below. That's certainly a high-end-lookin' Shock 3, though, showing off as it does some of the next major Unity update's new wizardry (they're also planning on ray-tracing support, as Katharine reported yesterday). It was the original Shock that had a more defined aesthetic, with its per-zone colour palettes and the simple shapes and textures of the era. Does it look like System Shock 2? I mean, I guess so: darker, moodier, but Shock 2 was never the most visually distinctive game in the first place. This is a "pre-alpha state", apparently, and obviously it's very carefully curated micro-scenes on top of that, so there's only so much we can interpret about the final game from it. I'll share his Shock jabber further down the post, but let's start with the trailer itself. This teaser came as part of Unity's trumpet-blowing about their shiny new features in last night's GDC keynote, as demonstrated by Wozza Specs hisself. 'Shock, traditionally, has been about pushing things forwards, not looking to the past, and what stronger statement could there be than to ditch its godhood-seeking figurehead? Make the big bad a disgruntled janitor named Susan instead, maybe.īut I won't pretend that I didn't experience a multitude of teenage kicks when I heard the returned voice of original SHODAN actor Terri Brosius, in this first teaser trailer for the belated third System Shock. Devil's advocate: I'd have been even more excited about Otherside's System Shock 3 if it didn't have revered murder-computer SHODAN in it.
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