2/21/2024 0 Comments System shock 3 looks scary![]() However good it might end up… it isn't going to terrify me. It won't affect me the same way as its predecessors. I know I can't expect a modern second sequel to adopt a wholly dated graphical style, but I know that System Shock 3 isn't going to be my System Shock. System Shock and System Shock 2 aren't going anywhere. Go back to those games now, and they're crude by comparison with their modern equivalents. However, it's unlikely to look like the System Shocks of old. Let's face it – most games do these days. Such as it is with modern games for me.Īnd this is my worry with System Shock 3. Imagine if the Mona Lisa had a big wart on her upper lip for all her eyebrow-less beauty, that's what your eye would be drawn to. Those sunsets may look stunning, the forests may convince, but the points at which graphical fidelity butts up against expectation brings me out of the experience. Graphics have never been better, but somehow, the closer we get to bridging the uncanny valley, the more I notice the flaws. There's no filling in the blanks where once there were empty spaces to be bolstered by your own creative thought, now there are sunsets, realistic water physics, and bears with simulated fur. I can smell the musty rum barrels, the wet hay on the floor, the smoke from the torches. When I think back, I can still see every cobweb, every crack in the walls, the drool spilling from the trembling maws of my enemies. The bland, untextured corridors of Castle Master on my Atari ST, or the two-dimensional hallways of Citadel on the BBC Model B, aren't how I remember them. It was something I've always felt about video games, or the video games I played as a kid. There's a famous quote about radio – that the pictures are better. You'd think I'd be buying a new 100w bulb in preparation, but I've got reservations… and not just because I can afford new underpants. And now it looks as if we're finally getting System Shock 3, if the recently released teaser is anything to go by. ![]() It has been 16 years since System Shock 2, a superlative sequel which was slicker and more atmospheric than its predecessor. For such a rarely heralded series, it's remarkable how much it has given us. All good games, but I enjoyed none of them as much as I did System Shock 2. Dead Space, Alien Isolation, Bioshock, Deus Ex – to one extent or another, these are games which are built on all that System Shock pioneered. ![]()
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