While it was first spotted back in October, Nightdive Studios has now confirmed that their upcoming System Shock remake has a release window of March 2023. The developers also took the opportunity to show off some new eye candy for the remake, including the game’s dismemberment system.
In a new Kickstarter post, Nightdive acknowledges that this isn’t the first time the long-in-development remake has had an announced release window. But, with the addition of Prime Matter as publisher, Nightdive has been able to focus on polishing the System Shock remake enough that they could announce the March release window.
“As some of you have already pointed out this is not our first time announcing a tentative launch window, but over the past few years much has changed – the scope and scale of the project has evolved dramatically and with Prime Matter joining the project it’s enabled us to focus on quality-of-life improvements, bug fixing, and localization support – the last major steps towards releasing a game we’re all incredibly proud of.”
Alongside showing off the various enemy models and effects, Nightdive also posted a video showing off System Shock‘s dismemberment system, which for old-school PC gamers, calls back to Raven Software’s Soldier of Fortune series, and the fun that you could have blowing off enemy limbs. “As you know dismemberment has been a high priority for us and every enemy is receiving a completely custom dismemberment model – there are a lot of enemies and the amount of effort being spent on this is staggering.”
System Shock is available to pre-order now for PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store, and will also be releasing on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, and the Xbox One.