System Shock

It has it some special charm that sucks you in. And that's it!

Never seen a remake executed better than this one. From the first second i felt like home, back on citadel station. There are almost no bugs, the performance is good. I would say this one of the finest releases 2023 has seen thus far.

SystemShock Remake on GOG. It is a Blast. I am almost done with the first level. But have not been able to figure out how to get across a bridge with out getting killed yet. I love what they have done with it. It is not perfect. But it is close. It is still very similar to the original. But with modern controls. Which is a big one for me. I am playing the normal mode and it is no cake walk. I don't know how many times I have done something stupid and paid the price. But you can save at any time. Which is big for me. So you can always load your last safe and not lose much progress. So if you are looking for an old school FPS you can't go wrong with this one.

Well, I have to say after some skepticism because of the time involved, 'System Shock Remake' is another win by 'Night Dive'! I already reached in a couple of plays what took me so long before, because of the primitive DOS controls and interface. Also am an old guy who likes to play more than be held up by the action, so no shame in 'easy' difficulty on all settings, because the puzzles and strategy will be a challenge in any case. For die-hard gamers, also have at it; you will likely die often. It also does remind me of Prey 2017 as well in this, and in all the right ways, as some Others here have said. It's also better, if you played the demo previously: a complete overhaul of the graphics, that were a great improvement over DOS, but now looks more like a textured version of the original, and easier to navigate in areas like 'Cyberspace', where I quit the demo months ago for the confusion and glare. Not an issue in the official release: THANKS AGAIN, GOG! And 'Night Dive'! One final note about quirky or dysfuncional controls: later uninstall the 2015---2019 or whatever visual basic that installs. Reinstall or install 2015, with no additional years added; those ruin everything all the time. I swear, someone likes to ruin things with these lately ('Microsoft' likely). In fact, with other games, this same process of getting rid of the multiple bs 'vb' installs fixes many things: 2015 version, maybe 2017 (not for this game on my machine) seems to work fine... It's tricky also fooling launch after you do this -- this is a problem GOG/Night Dive SHOULD patch themselves; and some more variety with the corpses and some others appearance would help, but I Know this is original to the DOS version... Four stars for the wonky controlfile problem that does break the game before repair, or I would have given 5 stars for a great job and great game! :-)

My GOTY for 2023 (either this or Trepang2). The first game had some cool ideas and puzzles, but aged like shit. This however, is damn near close to a perfect game.