If you've actually played SS and SS2, this demo shouldn't surprise you at all. What it should do is make you say "By George I think they've got it." It plays *exactly* like System Shock 2 did and I say 2 because it's the closest thing, as oldschool as Shock 1 was. Textures look spot on, although being Unity they aren't extremely gorgeous. They do look exactly like System Shock, though. Obviously with it being 20 years later there are actual lighting effects and things like steam, etc. The graphics already are very good, especially for a Unity game. Get hype. The demo is only about 450 mb and very, very short - about 5 rooms. Just enough to let you know what to expect. Grenades don't work in the demo and the majority of everything you pick up is trash or a human body part. So far the audio logs seem spot on - although the very first thing that happens is very, very painfully cliche and sounds like it came verbatim from Bioshock or any of a dozen other games, the way it is worded. But that's just because System Shock did it first. Of course, the UI is exactly as expected - just like the original games. If you see anyone complain about it, it's because they've never played the original games before. It is exactly the same, but modernized. The demo only shows 2 enemies and security cameras - and the security cameras don't care about you. It also didn't show hacking, but certainly we'll see how hacking plays out sometime before release. I can't stress enough how wonderful it is to get to relive System Shock the way it should always have been experienced - in glorious modern 3D. All that's left to do is wait 1.5 years. I will be spending $150 for the physical collectors edition on Kickstarter. I already intended to but the demo solidifed it.
