Zen Studios has teamed up with retro specialists Nightdive Studios to bring us an unexpected collaboration — System Shock Pinball. This is the latest DLC table for Pinball FX and Pinball M on the Switch eShop, and it's available today.
The M version will give you the complete gory experience, while the FX table is a little more age-appropriate. Regardless of which version you're grabbing, the DLC will cost you USD $5.49 / GBP £4.99 on the Switch eShop.
The table will allow you to return to the iconic Citadel Station to face off against the AI SHODAN, System Shock's iconic antagonist. It fully embraces all of the hallmarks of System Shock and arrives after Nightdive's remaster of the classic first-person adventure from 2023.
The System Shock Pinball DLC is available for Pinball M and Pinball FX right now. Will you be hitting the backbox of Citadel Station? Flip into the comments.
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I’m not familiar with the IP and probably won’t be purchasing, but when Zen announced this pin (last week?), I thought they said that buying System Shock for FX would automatically unlock it for Pinball M for free (or maybe it was the other way around)?
This looks fun, I'll have to pick it up. All these pinball tables are pretty addictive, and System Shock is an interesting crossover.
Also, Tomb Raider remastered has been reminding me of Shadowman. I love how they both run smoothly and retain a lot of the old gameplay, but with a fair amount of newer quality of life stuff available if you want it.
I just wish Nightdive and Aspyr and Saber had many more programmers to bring lots of other old games up to modern standards of 60fps and above (Turok 3 looks awesome at 90 on deck).
So, in conclusion, pinball is awesome and System Shock pinball sounds great!
@Teksetter it goes both ways, if you buy it on one then you get it on the other for free
Haven't messed with Zen's pinball games in a while...I mean, yeah I kinda lost interest during that time where they were obsessed with those...tables that I can't even remember the names to (the ones that are based on real pinball tables)...but it seems that they're focusing on the more unique tables again.
Still hoping for Nintendo collabs...or something involving Futurama or Rick and Morty. lol
EDIT: The William's tables, that's what they're called...lol
Well that's... quite an interesting way to find out Atari owns System Shock. I know Night Dive made the remake, and Prime Matter was the publisher, hence a nice bit of corporate synergy here, but I thought Night Dive themselves had to lease System Shock from some Chinese Company?
What?? This is awesome. I will definitely be getting this.
Did they ever fix Pinball FX's performance issues? I remember that being a step down from Pinball FX 3 when it launched, but they said that they'd work on it more to bring it up to snuff.
Dude, Zen did me a pretty big solid with FX on the Wii U. Always played it in mamy of the lull periods that system had.
Now it has one of my favorite FPS back in the day. Insane.
@SwitchVogel I have it on Xbox and on that platform it plays much better. Still a little sluggish to load and navigate but the flipper response time is much better….
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I periodically google around Reddit to get a feel from people for how patches and updates are going on it, and I haven't yet been satisfied that the new FX is even yet in as good of a state as the old FX3 yet...
I would have bought loads of tables already...
@MontyCircus I downloaded the latest patch today, I can tell the graphics and physics improvements again, now it’s much more closer to FX3, I am satisfied.
Unlikely to happen for this generation, but I hope to see the System Shock remake on a Nintendo platform someday. Played the OG for months, back in '94.
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