System Shock 2 Gorgeous cutscene remake

Man these modders know how to make some cool stuff.

System Shock 2 was released in 1999 and I'm still hesitant to talk about it too much for fear of spoiling the experience for those of you who haven't yet played it. Yes, it's that good, which is why I'm not going to say anything in detail about this planned remake of a pivotal cinematic sequence until after this paragraph. But if you know what I'm talking about when I refer to "the big reveal," then you should probably keep reading.

The first appearance of insane AI SHODAN in System Shock 2 has to stand as one of the most memorable of all time. "When the history of my glory is written, your species will only be a footnote to my magnificence. I am SHODAN!" still gives me goosebumps. It's brilliant.

So when I heard about a planned remake of that sequence by Mr. Smo of the Polycount forums, my curiosity was naturally piqued. Inspired by a piece created by DeviantArt user JimHatama, which is a wonderful work in its work right, Mr Smo—actually Simon Pennington, a senior environment artist at The Creative Assembly—is setting about the task of recreating the SHODAN reveal in gloriously-detailed high resolution.

Images posted on the forum show his interpretation of SHODAN from two slightly different angles, as well as the corridor leading to Dr. Polito's body, an overhead cutaway of her office and even one of poor ol' Xerxes, the hapless Von Braun AI who fights a losing battle against her machine magnificence. There's also a "rework" of the politely explosive protocol droids we all know and love, done in the kind of detail we couldn't even dream of back in the 90s.

It's not an update of the full game (wouldn't that be nice?) but it's still a very exciting prospect. I can't wait to see what he comes up with when it's done.

Holy moly that is awesome, no lie.

Pretty amazing. If this comes out i'll certainly play it because i never played SS2

edit: "It's not an update of the full game" that is toooooo bad

Here's some pics of system shock 2 with mods I took: https://imgur.com/a/WFJVZ Scroll down to img 19 for the ss2 photos.

They really need to do a System Shock 2 remastered or something, the game hasn't aged very well and it would be pretty amazing if they can do a "Black Mesa" for SS2.

I got it as soon as it was released on Steam, it has aged very poorly. They seriously need to get a competent dev or a mod team to work on remastering it. I think the Steam version actually has the increased resolution for System Shock 2, but I'm probably wrong on that since I haven't played it in awhile, in fact I should probably finish playing it :P.

:edit: actually I think I'm wrong on that resolution thing now I think about it

Shodan was such an awesome character, I can't never forget her speech in her reveal. A updated System Shock 2 or something would be very welcome.

No. Don't be shy... Go ahead and spoil it.... Whoever hasn't played it by now honestly doesn't care.

I like his interpretation of Shodan a lot. This is how she should look in System Shock 3 if it ever comes.

No. Don't be shy... Go ahead and spoil it.... Whoever hasn't played it by now honestly doesn't care.

Hey 2K Marin is now responsible for the Bioshock Series.

I loved Bioshock 2 (the best one) so this is grate !

Would love a System Shock remake, one of those classic games I always go back to play at least once a year.

I would love to play through SS2 again with an overhaul like that. One of my favorite games of all time and it pisses all over Bioshock.