If you have been a fan of first-person shooter video video games within the mid-’90s, you might keep in mind 1994’s System Shock. And when you keep in mind it, likelihood is you keep in mind it very fondly, and thus shall be very excited to listen to that Binge has introduced a live-action TV adaptation of the cult-classic cyberpunk recreation for its upcoming, game-inspired-entertainment streaming service.
Released in 1994 and set in 2072, System Shock pitted a anonymous hacker towards a malicious and more and more unhinged AI named SHODAN and her legion of killer cyborgs, killer robots, and killer mutants whereas trapped on an enormous area station. Here, take a look at some footage from the 2015 remake System Shock: Enhanced Edition from Nightdive Studios:
As you’ll be able to see, it’s a really evocative setting, however like most basic first-person shooters there’s not a ton of narrative to it. The participant will get fed info and mission goals from Rebecca Golding, a “TriOptimum counter-terrorism consultant” (TriOptimum owns the area station), that are primarily about thwarting the myriad methods SHODAN plans to assault humanity. There are additionally numerous log discs and emails the participant can discover, that flesh out the work and the lives of the folks on the area station earlier than they have been murdered/mutated, which actually provides some depth, however there’s going to have to be so much added to show this right into a TV present.
The purpose I’m hedging my bets and saying System Shock might get a TV sequence is as a result of I’m considerably skeptical of Binge’s capacity to… uh… exist. The service was introduced this previous June, and regardless of supposedly coming in 2022, it’s solely revealed one different sequence based mostly on Driver, one other outdated online game sequence. Two exhibits don’t a streaming service make, and Binge has launched no different particulars about what’s coming apart from “exclusive shows, premium channels, and original live-action series where your favorite games come to life” which is extraordinarily obscure, particularly when 2022 is simply across the nook.
Hopefully I’m fallacious and we’ll all be having fun with System Shock: The TV Series on Binge someday subsequent 12 months. But I don’t consider I’ll be holding my breath.
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