‘System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition’ Gets Updated Name, Release Date at GDC

While it obviously hasn’t taken as long at the System Shock remake, fans are obviously curious as to just when we’ll be seeing Nightdive’s System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition. The answer will be coming next month, as the game (now rechristened System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster) will be getting a release date announcement (and trailer) at next month’s Game Developers Conference.

The announcement will be part of the Future Games Show Spring Showcase livestream on March 20.

As for the remaster itself, it’s been in the works since 2019. Nightdive did drop details about the remaster over the years, which along with the usual graphical and modern enhancements, will focus on the game’s multiplayer and mod support. System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster was also part of the pre-order bonus for the System Shock remake.

For those who never did play the original game when it first released back in 1999, System Shock 2 is set 42 years after the events of the first System Shock. Players assume the role of a cybernetically-enhanced soldier who awakes from cryo-sleep aboard the Von Braun, an experimental FTL starship that had responded to a distress signal from the planet Tau Ceti V. Mysterious eggs were recovered from the planet, which hatched and infected the crew, assimilating them into an alien communion known as “The Many”. You must now find a way to stop The Many and escape.

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be coming to PC via Steam and GOG, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch.

Meanwhile, you can get the original version today on a week-long 85% off sale on Steam and GOG until February 21.

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