System Shock Remake proves that immersive sims are brilliant, and everyone that dislikes them is wrong

This is the most exciting, vibrant moment for immersive sims since the golden age of Looking Glass and Ion Storm. Not only are there more indie games about crawling through air vents and reading emails than ever before, the design sensibilities and focus on emergent gameplay is starting to appear in triple-A titles to an extent we haven’t seen for a long time. The genre is one with a disparate history and many competing definitions, and the excellent System Shock remake strips everything back ...