I still have nightmares about supervillain SHODAN's chimerical trans-human horrors, by the way. And then you had its inspired, completely unexpected take on cyberspace: convoluted digital chutes you zipped along like surfing wireframe waterslides, trying to solve quirky geometric puzzles. You had all that self-augmentation bizarreness, like the implants that let you do indoor barrel rolls, a flight-sim-inspired premise based on actual rules of inertia (indoor physics!). Its lack of realtime light sourcing gave it a perpetually dim, 1970s sci-fi flick ambience that ironically complemented its simple but grim 256-color palette. Glowing wall panels were stippled with crisscross patterns that shimmered parabolically as your perspective changed (an aesthetic unto itself that I miss sometimes).

No person or company has claimed credit for creating NewDark as of 2017.The game had a fascinating pre-Apple-Store-sterile visual vibe, too. All that is known is that such a project would have required either access to the original source code or an incredible amount of technical skill (and perhaps both). There is speculation that it may be the work of a former member or members of Looking Glass Studios or related to the discovery of a beta version of System Shock 2 for the Dreamcast, but neither of these have been proven. The origin of NewDark is still a mystery as Le Corbeau made less than a dozen posts total on the French forum. The new version of the Dark Engine was dubbed 'NewDark', and a number of mods such as SecMod were remade to make full use of the updated game engine. It was discussed in English here and here. In September 2012, a user named Le Corbeau on the French forum ariane4ever shocked the fandom by posting updated versions of Thief 2 and System Shock 2 that contained an unprecedented amount of bugfixes, in addition to raising or eliminating a number of 'hard' limitations such as how many polygons the came could display at one time.

Notable Fanmade Mods created with ShockEd

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