Is there a extra tantalising style title than “immersive sim”? It isn’t only a style, it is an invite. Get into this! It is deep and rewarding and stuffed with techniques to grasp and – maybe – subvert. It is brainy and tough however the attendant highs are as excessive as you can also make them.
Anyway, System Shock is our sport of the week this Friday, and with good motive. That is, to many eyes, the place the style started, a style that, as Kaan put it fantastically in his assessment, evokes “constant inventive downside fixing.” 4 phrases to stay by, I reckon.
System Shock has aged fairly nicely, I collect, partly as a result of the remake has been dealt with with actual delicacy, primarily based on an understanding of what must be up to date for contemporary tastes and what could be slicing into the bone just a little too deeply. It is also aged fairly nicely, although, as a result of the style itself has aged nicely. We ask a whole lot of video games lately, and one of many issues we ask most willingly is that they ask extra of us. That is the sort of request that makes an immersive sim shine.
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