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Mike Chrzanowski, who used to work for PC developers Looking Glass, sent us these videos over the weekend that show the final hours of one of the greatest studios this industry has ever seen.
Widely acclaimed when it released in 1999, System Shock 2′s cinematic conclusion nonetheless disappointed Irrational Games creative chief Ken Levine. The reason: The video that was shot wasn’t anything like what he had scripted.
Apparently the future of shooters is RPGs. Or says Cliff Bleszinski. And it seems like Bioware’s Ray Muzyka agrees with him. Have they both gone mad?
OK, maybe not a tree. More like a tangled mess of cables, wiring and cold steel. And maybe not kissing. What they’re doing looks a little more “after dark” than a childhood rhyme could manage…
We wouldn’t say “no” to more System Shock. You wouldn’t say not to more System Shock. You know who else wouldn’t say no to more System Shock? Ken Levine, who told VG247 “Would I turn my nose up at another round with Shodan? No”. Hardly a firm statement of intent, but SS fans will take what they can get these days. Course, there’s always the tricky issue of the System Shock rights being owned by a company that’s not Levine’s current employers 2K, but as Fallout 3 has shown, where there’s a will, there’s often a way. So who knows. Maybe some day in the distant future System Shock fans can stop complaining about wanting a new System Shock game and start complaining about the new System Shock game.
Levine on System Shock 3: “Would I turn my nose up at another round with Shodan? No” [VG247][Image]
