However, Tencent's involvement has been described as " taking the franchise forward." This could imply that Tencent has received more creative control over the game's development, which could result in an even more delayed development cycle.
With no word on how far along the game is, and with the Otherside team working remotely with Tencent during the COVID-19 pandemic and scrapping earlier concepts, there is no telling when a new announcement will be unveiled, and no indication as to when a target release date may even be. The delays and difficulties in production will have no doubt impacted the title's release date as well. RELATED: Will Bethesda's Prey Reboot Ever Get A Sequel? It's interesting that Tencent would pick up a project like this, as System Shock has traditionally been a single-player experience. Tencent maintains full and partial ownership of many developers focusing on mass-multipayer types of experience, including heavy hitters like Riot Games' Valorantand League of Legends and Fortnite developer Epic Games. However, Warren Spector, studio lead at Otherside Entertainment, is still attached to the project, which might be enough to maintain the creative vision laid out by him and Paul Neurath for System Shock 3.Įven still, as Tencent is now involved in the game's development, it's difficult to discern exactly how this will affect System Shock 3. As all that has been shown about the game so far was pre-alpha footage, and some if not all of it may not be used at all at this point. With Tencent now publishing the title, and Otherside having expressed difficulty in producing a huge, highly anticipated title such as System Shock 3, a great deal about the game may have already changed altogether. On top of this, the studio has had to work remotely on the game because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Along with the layoff reports, technical difficulties threw another wrench in the game's development, and demos of the game were thrown away. What is somewhat unclear is how much development of the game is completed and what responsibilities for its development are being divided among the two companies. For Otherside, a small, independent developer that is also working on a System Shock remake, it made sense to hand the game to a capable publisher such as Tencent. A month later, Otherside found their publisher in Tencent, who appears to have also taken over some aspects of development, with Nightdive maintaining ownership of the System Shock franchise.
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