Video Games Stuck In Development Hell: Part 3

System Shock 3 is simply a crippled galore person clamored for and asked astir for years. It’s nary surprise, either, arsenic its predecessor, System Shock 2, is 1 of the astir important sci-fi games of each time. System Shock 3 was expected sometime pursuing System Shock 2, but thing ever came of it. Instead, we got BioShock. 

However, Nightdive Studios, which would spell connected to win successful a monolithic Kickstarter fundraiser for a remaster of the archetypal System Shock, bought the rights to the franchise from Star Insurance successful 2015. 

Then, aboriginal that year, Otherside Entertainment (formed by Paul Neurath, the originative manager of Looking Glass Studios, the workplace that primitively created the System Shock series) announced that it was processing System Shock 3. Wait, however is that possible? Didn’t Nightdive Studios ain the rights to the franchise? Well, it turns retired Nightdive Studios simply gave Otherside Entertainment support to marque the threequel. 

Two years passed with nigh a word, and past successful March of 2017, Starbreeze Studios announced that it had signed a publishing woody with Otherside Entertainment to bring System Shock 3 to PC and different platforms. Two much years passed, mostly void of System Shock 3 information, but successful 2019, we got a teaser featuring the evil AI, SHODAN.

That teaser was the past we heard astir System Shock 3. Is it canceled? Nothing seems to bespeak that. Is it stuck successful improvement hell? Considering we haven’t heard a connection astir it successful implicit 2 years, astir certainly. Will it marque it out? Who knows, but Nightdive Studios seems committed to making System Shock a mainstream franchise, particularly if the live-action System Shock tv series it’s making is immoderate indication.