This isn't an unusual course of action for Kickstarter titles Playtonic's Yooka-Laylee, oft-described as a Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor, was delayed by several months before it saw the light of day. On the contrary, its eventual arrival seems pretty definite - just expect a slightly belated delivery. That's not to say the new System Shock has been scrapped.

Yet despite amassing a small fortune on Kickstarter, a final product is yet to materialize.

Nightdive readily took up the reins of an official System Shock remake in 2015. Of course, Lansing's enterprising efforts wouldn't be possible without Nightdive Studios, which made the source code publicly available in April.

The enhanced edition, which Lansing recommends, is currently on sale through both Steam and GOG. Whether that extends to the long-forgotten PC-9801 port is a question no one needs to know the answer to. System Shock: ReWired even brings fans some completely new goodies: three additional non-linear stages, four more cyberspace stations, extra puzzles and (currently read-only) audiologs, and bless the gaming gods, Lansing says it's compatible with every version of System Shock in existence.

He spent four months whipping up an entire single-player campaign that creeps into the same hellish recesses as the original game. Just ask Joey Lansing, the creator of a mod for 1994 action-adventure System Shock. Once unleashed, the power of fandom is a force that can't be stopped.

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