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And players directly participate in that. “You can play those what-ifs and see the outcomes. “In a game like this you can test boundaries by having creatures and characters that are hybrids between machines and humans, or AIs and human intelligence,” Neurath continued. It’s just the theme I enjoy coming back to.” “It’s hard for me to imagine making a game that isn’t about what it means to be human. “People who create things tend to tell the same stories over and over again, because they’re embedded in our brains,” he explained. For Spector especially, it means insightfully revisiting the themes he’s spent his entire career fixating on. Honoring System Shock 3 doesn’t just mean creating a respectful mechanical followup to the ’90s originals. You travel within the glory of my memories, insect “We have to be careful not to let the audience design the game, but to be aware of what they expect, and hopefully live up to those expectations.” “There are people who want this element of the first game, or they want that element of the second game,” Spector said.

The team is actively listening to fan desires and expectations, while being careful not to let the project descend into design by committee. One lesson he said the team learned was that fans expect a certain amount of reverence when beloved IPs are restored to life. “We all make mistakes, and one hopes you learn from those mistakes,” Neurath said. Neurath described the project as one of the most challenging of his 30-year career. An attempted return to the world of 1992’s Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, Ascendant was riddled with bugs, lacked polish, and struck several reviewers as blatantly unfinished. System Shock 3 will be Neurath’s second project in a row drawn from his ’90s roots, the first being last year’s troubled Underworld Ascendant. The return of so many original team members will certainly help Spector and Neurath keep their promise to stay in touch with their old school bona fides.