System Shock Demo

Just wow. This has come quite aways since the original pre-alpha demo released over a year ago. This features the entirety of the medical bay, with hordes of enemies, voice logs and more. This shows an incredible promise of what to come, provided they keep at it. This newest demo (released May 2020) still contains some puzzling low rez textures, like stuck between HD and the original. This is apparent on some of the environments, especially at close up. There are also very sparse tutorials, which for the most part is fine (the original System Shock was like this as well), but some parts could've been improved by informing the player in the same sense they do when i.e approaching a box that can be looted. For instance, the laser gun has three modes and are switched between with "T" on the keyboard. Aside from being sparse in some areas, the atmosphere is still here. Music seem to ramp up during combat or intense moments, but that _iconic_ start music is nowhere to be heard. Hopefully this will be added as with other missing features in the future for an overall enthralling experience like the original was. And at the time of playing this, I'd say they're well on the way there. Recommended.

1. Subtitles are missing 2. A way to track audio/text logs is missing 3. Combat is a little weird, especially with the pipe. Either that or the zombie hitbox. I sometimes can get a headshot on them from 5ft away. Sometimes can't land a hit on them from up close. 4. The laser turret seems way harder to kill than the classic version. 5. Some textures look real low res, but that may be because of the alpha build and limiting the size of the demo installer. P.S. Really enjoyed the game's graphic design and artwork. Fix some of these issues and I'll be a happy customer for sure!

I've tried both the ultra-short pre-alpha version (on Linux), and played twice the newer UE4 based version. Except for some minor problems (can't rebind lean left/right keys, the "use" key should be also used for "take all" while looting bodies, motion-blur re-enabling itself after you use a med-patch), that can be expected on a demo... I'm really happy to see how this remake is coming up. I liked the cyberspace section! But... I'm one of those weirdos that liked even the original version, so... take my opinion with more than a handful of salt :-D The stamina patch thingies... felt unnecessary. Berserker ones were more interesting, specially with the added touch of getting visions of monsters that use the original SS1 models, nice touch!!! This demo certainly doesn't feels ground-breaking in any way.... but, you know what? That's alright! Just being SS1 with modern graphics is all it needs to be for it to be a good, enjoyable "new" classic. I hope I'll be able to afford the full version someday (and that it still kinda runs on my aging hardware :-D)

Awesome in all aspect but... is slow need some vulcan shaders in linux

This new version looks very good and plays good. But it still needs some polishing. The graphics look very good and i love the colours used well. The combat system still needs some work. Like when you hit an enemy target it looks a but clunkey. More animation should make it more realistic. for the hour i've played it looks very impressive.