Well it is all over the internet now

Polygon
The Verge
Gamespot

Lets hope it follows the ss recipes.

They officially confirmed that they own everything related to System Shock, including the rights to future games in the series.

That's awesome and super exciting but I wish they focused 100% on Underworld Ascendant first, otherwise they might end up rushing both games. :'(

I hope they add an option to turn off infinite respawns.

thats bad news (my opinion)

http://www.othersidetease.com/strawberry.php

Otherside is perfect for this. They are Looking Glass, after all (for the most part). Already backed UA. REALLY hope this is true.

This:

"Tommy, lover... don't you like my new look?"
"It's... it's fine."
"What do you mean it's fine?!"
"It's, you know, a good look."
"No, you don't like it!"
"Well, it's very 80's hair band, that's not really my th-"
"You don't love me any more!"

Rebeca then spends the rest of the trip to Earth, alternatively sobbing while calling her mom, and planning to turn humans into cyborg/mutant hybrids while eating chocolate ice-cream.

There, now we don't need System Shock 2 afterall!*

*We do because we need more games like Underworld, Wasteland 2, Deus Ex, and Thief, but I'm fine with my resolution above to the plot of SS2.

Don't forget to salt the fries!

Nope, there are a lot more, like Chris Siegel and Robb Waters (concept artist on SS) and Austin Grossman (writer of SS), etc. Plus they are working with Terri Brosius (SHODAN) and Stephen Russell (Diego, XERXES, The Many).

Really? Good to know, thanks. I love Terri Brosius for her part with SHODAN and Viktoria (Thief 1-2). What about Eric? He did a fantastic ambiance in Thief series and very nice techno music in SS2.

Eric is in still Harmonix AFAIK. He might not be available for contract work, but you never know. Also, Doug Church is toiling away in Valve's mines.

I'm afraid we can forget about Doug Church. Valve is a slave factory with highly restricted job agreements, oh yeah you mentioned the mines already ;)
Too bad as he was one of SS2 director's. Only if he decides to leave Valve which I doubt since Otherside Studios is a small company, and all rights to System Shock belongs to even smaller Night Dive Studios.

As for the Eric the probability of him working part time on SS3 project is not that low: Harmonix is an independent company specialized in music games, they probably have more common sense than Activision/EA/Valve altogether ;)

Eric's experience would be much appreciated since he created immersive atmosphere in Thief/SS2 games.

This is such a good news / bad news event for me.

The good news (GREAT NEWS) is - SYSTEM SHOCK 3 !!!111

Other good/great news is - look who is involved with it. yay :)

...

The bad news is - my jaded expectations; due to how other things have happened. Notably Thief 4 and Fallout 4.

IOW, my expectations are dampened by the following possibilities:

* It's going to require a day-one mega-patch or it won't even play "out of the box"

* It's going to REQUIRE somebody's fuck-ass client to either or both download that patch and/or just to play it at all

* It's going to be built for DLC's - and thus have:

* a Season Pass

* It's going to suffer from "consolitis"

* It's going to have stupid "gratuitous' crap in it - just because. (Stuff like out-of-place or over-the-top 'sex'; lot's of cursing, etc)

* It will not be moddable nor come with an editor (or have one available separately)


I know it's a cynical view - but that is a view that has developed due to 'how they do things these days'.

So.. I hope I'm wrong about at least some of the above (and, ideally, all of it); but I guess we'll just have to wait and see..


The good news (GREAT NEWS) is - SYSTEM SHOCK 3 !!!111

:)

I suspect most of this won't apply because we're talking about a small indie developer, but to me that's also the main concern because resource constraints might prevent the final product from being all it can be. The other worry is that maybe these guys just can't recapture lightning in a bottle. I guess we'll have a better idea when the Underworld game comes out?