When you meet Shodan for the first time in System Shock 2, she gives you this slideshow recalling some of the events from the original game. Since I’m playing Nightdive’s new remaster, and since Nightdive also did its own full remake of the first System Shock, I’d be unsurprised if the slideshow was edited so that the images from the ‘first’ game are replaced now with screenshots of the new, 2023 version. Some developers would seize this opportunity to tacitly establish their edition of the game at the center of the series’ canon. New constantly supplants and erases old. The history of videogames is an oxymoron. This kind of thing - Konami using voice clips from The Twin Snakes rather than Metal Gear Solid for the Shadow Moses flashback scenes in MGS 4; Rockstar pulling the original GTA trilogy from sale when the Definitive Edition came out - happens all the time. Continue reading System Shock 2 Remastered makes modern triple-A games look badMORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best FPS games, Best old games, Best RPG games