If you visit the teaser site and turn up the volume, yes, that’s original series actress Terri Brosius reprising her role as the nightmarish artificial intelligence. Looking Glass founder Paul Neurath as well as System Shock 2 senior artist Nate Wells and lead concept artist Robb Waters (for both games) are involved with the sequel, and you can see Waters’ reconceptualization of SHODAN in that spooky shot above. System Shock 2, a narrative sequel jointly developed by Looking Glass and Irrational Games (the latter went on to develop the first and third BioShock games), arrived five years later in August 1999. Developed by famed studio Looking Glass Technologies (eventually Looking Glass Studios), it debuted on MS-DOS PCs in September 1994. The original System Shock was about a hacker conscripted to free an A.I.

If you don’t count the BioShock games, dubbed spiritual successors to the original cyberpunk System Shock duology, we’ve been waiting over a decade-and-a-half to find out what happens next.

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