At first I thought they had gone for a more ambient soundtrack (which actually makes sense, the ambient music improves the creepy mood of System Shock), and I was a bit sad because I enjoyed the electronic midis of the original, but then I got to the combat soundtrack... Holy crap it goes pretty hard. I like how they managed to do both.
I feel that Mick Gordon's work had an influence in the combat tracks, it's not the sort of thing that you'd hear in Doom Eternal, but it has a similar essence, it's noisy and visceral, very industrial.
It's neither bad music nor as fully atmospheric as I feared in the combat tracks, but other than Cyberspace, almost none of the others really feel like proper representation of the music tracks. Occasionally hearing a few bars of the original melody in the back of the combat track isn't really the same. The original ost was both really good and had a lot potential for remixing when using modern hardware to make and play it, so I can't help but feel disappointed.
@@Lastofthemohaggens Original ost is a bit to loud for the pace of the new game. And to be brutally honest, it never fit the theme of the original game either. Game is as depressing and bleak as can be, meanwhile the music is blaring in your ear like you're playing doom. Just never meshed well imo.
@@godfrey4461 I completely disagree, if it was System Shock 2 then maybe, but System Shock 1 was much more fast paced and bizarre in comparison. Infact, I would argue that the soundtrack CARRIED a lot of the backtracking and tedium of the original since the music was so unique and such an ear worm. If it was just this depressing drone ambience instead, I think players would get bored MUCH quicker.
@@HouseTrapJay Couldn't agree more. Turning my energy shields on then rushing with my roller boots towards a hulking mecha, my laser rapier gripped tightly just as the berserk kicks in. It really is a dance and I miss the original sound, especially the security theme.
Just like in the original game. You can even hear the synth melody of the original in the Explore track and the bassline of the original in the Combat track.
I love how everyone unanimously loves the executive themes because I remember being SHOOK when I was playing through the game hearing these themes. Like it’s the kind of music that makes you really feel like some shit is going down. Glad everyone else feels the same way. Opulence and Ostentation is just the kind of track that really makes you feel like you’re progressing.
I really love how as the game progresses and the hacker gets closer to challenging Shodan the guitar becomes a stronger and stronger part of the tracks, beginning to overpower the electronic instruments that dominated the early game tracks. The clash and struggle between the hacker represented by the guitar and Shodan represented by the electronic instruments reflects the games progress in a really beautiful and interesting way. The differences between the combat and base tracks of each area really highlight this as during downtime the guitar is more present, the hacker has room to breathe, prepare and improve. Whereas in the combat tracks deep bassy synths, overpowering synth leads and electric drums completely swamp the guitar. Combat is where Shodan exerts control and it isn't until later tracks where the guitar begins to fight for an even footing in the mixing. In combat tracks the guitar lingers under and sweeps in and out with gasping breaths while caught in the wave of synthetic instruments until Flight Deck, Executive and Systems Engineering when the guitar begins to find a powerful voice. Stellar soundtrack. Just wish it's what we had on spotify.
@@ut0p1an_dyst0p1a It's the SS1 Enhanced Edition soundtrack, which has the Roland and Sound Blaster 2 renditions of the midi tracks from the original 1994 release.
@@ut0p1an_dyst0p1a The OST for this game is on bandcamp, but sadly, a lot of the motifs mentioned in the OP are not present in this OST mix, for reasons unknown. Security, in particular, has a distorted guitar playing for most of its combat sequences because it's filled with intense combat. That guitar isn't present at all in the track on this album.
That logic tracks, because the beta grove has zero guitars. Because that place SHODAN's playground, she holds all the cards, and it has so much contamination that literally nowhere in there feels safe. So when you finally jettison it, it's a huge middle finger to SHODAN, and marks the point where she goes from condescending disdain to absolutely seething. I love it!!
@@blueaustralis3736Same lol. Stepping out of the elevator I noticed I had somehow hoarded 70 rounds of Osmium Magnum ammo and just put it down on all the Daft Punk robots marching the halls. Track makes you feel like such a badass.
Although it seemed to me that this game was somehow difficult in terms of goals, but after finishing it completely I was so upset that it ended. One of the best games this year
Maybe mess with your audio settings a little? I have a really nice headset though and it really brings out every tone in the music during gameplay, even when enemies are talking and shooting. Almost as if it was designed to be heard and felt binauraly, especially the research combat theme when it pulls from one side of the ear to the other if you get my meaning
Definitely been a great year for me playing these remakes (System Shock, Black Mesa, Resi 4) but System Shock was something truly special. No handholding, no direction, just dropped straight in with nothing but your own wits and intuition to get through it. How video games are SUPPOSED TO BE! 👏
Freaking great soundtrack imo and I absolutely love the use of the guitars in a lot of the tracks. So sick. I swear when that Mantis Cyborg first appeared I did almost shit myself
I'm playing this now.. I'm a huge fan of the original looking glass game as well as the 1999 sequel.. its been years since I played games on the PC.. the tension & atmosphere is very intense..
The combat music is like the perfect blend of the modern ambiant tracks during exploration, with haunting tones and a unique retro-futuristic feel, and System Shock 2's more extreme electronic style. It's literally blending the best of both worlds. Very difficult to pull off properly, so happy it works well!
Interesting comparison. I know someone who even compared one particular track (Executive level one) to Payday 2 ost. But Starcraft comparison is interesting.
I actually extracted all the music from the game and was going to do something similar to this myself. Thank GOD someone else did it because due to how the music is constructed in layers and meters internally with the dynamic music system. it would have taken a day or two of me in FL Studio to put this all together from just the audio files. Thanks for saving me the work lol.
@@drinks_menu I wonder if people would actually be interested in seeing what it looks like for one of the sections or pieces of a song to be put together manually, it's quite tedious but I personally find it quite interesting so maybe others would too, I could certainly demonstrate it with a freeform video. I also have a hook into the music system in-game to play with the dynamic music, I'll definitely make a video of that to show it in action when you control it. I ended up making that video th-cam.com/video/evdUHyC-RGg/w-d-xo.html
This is my personal game of the year, and I absolutely love its soundtrack. I like how each track incorporates bits from the OG game's soundtrack. I ESPECIALLY like how the music gets more aggressive as you progress through the game -- it's as if the music unleashes itself in parallel to the Hacker's progress.
awesome soundtrack, the first one after intro (Medical) really sets the tone, it creates an amazing atmosphere right away. One of my favourite from the OST beside Executive :)
For what it is worth, the soundtrack is very closely reminiscent of all the original themes, all they have done is bridge the gap between the almost intrusive DOS midi soundtracks of yesteryear, and the subtle background ambience we have come to expect in our modern new-fangled games. It's really hard to put into words what they have done, but imagine if Pink Floyd had been tasked with the challenge of toning down Katy Perry just a tiny weeny little bit, I mean to say that DOS game soundtracks were in your face is something of an understatement.
I don't understand why people are sleeping on this soundtrack so much. Obviously it's apples to oranges with the original, there's no crazy live multichannel procedural MIDI blending thing going on, but it's a REALLY great soundtrack. The NIN influence is really strong in both versions; the 1994 one is just more "Pretty Hate Machine" where the 2023 one is a bit more Berlin-era Bowie, Tangerine Dream, "Ghosts I-IV", Dragon Tattoo soundtrack type shit. and the composer makes nice, nuanced use of a handful of themes from the original soundtrack. idk, I just hear a lot of folks talk about this game like there's no music at all or that what's there is bad and literally neither of those things are true. I love the sort of "Steve Vai, ebow in space" thing, it very much gives early 90s cyberpunk. I like the way it takes on djentier, Doom 2016-ish elements without becoming really tacky, overdone dubstep that many composers tend to score contemporary cyberpunk stuff with. It's just a straightforward soundtrack as opposed to a fancy interactive thing, but it's a damn good soundtrack that matches the updated game perfectly.
i love how some of the elements from previous levels join the steady bass guitar in security, the leitmotif in this game goes deeper than people realize.
I have no nostalgic connection to the original, some tracks in that are absolutely marvelous, like Research and then the Security/Bridge, but this is more fitting. Very atmospheric, very much helps the setting of Citadel Station to be even more creepy than it is. The dynamic music works very well for combat, nothing else to say really. A job well done.
Strange to hear that the cyberspace track is GOOD remix of original, but others don`t give a damn about past. Man, original reactor remix would be a great, but something go wrong.... Hope there will be mods for music.
They're not exactly remixes but you can clearly hear lots of motifs and chord progressions from the original here. Reactor in particular is an odd one to complain about since the bassline of the original drives the whole track, it's one of the more faithful recreations of the original music in the whole soundtrack.
Interesting how a lot of the melodies from the original peek through, most distinct on the Reactor & Executive floors... Although imo, the Reactor floor's industrial robot-rock was iconic & a great fit, and they should've leaned into for the remake
Weirdly enough I haven't encountered like half of this stuff. For example in the medical I only heard those synths bells, but never the bass line... Also for me usually battle music consisted only from one synth proggression, which sounded pretty clumsy
Well First of all, that ost performed rly good. I especially like smooth transition from non-combat themes to combat. But if feels pretty... generic. Like most of the idle themes can fit in other games and settings. Like you can put It into something like R6 Siedge menu or Battletech game and they will fit just fine So, ost dont feel that It belongs to sci-fi game. Olny in some combat themes you can hear electronic bits like bips, clicks, beats, etc. Im comparing It with SS2 ost, and SS2's one completely obliterate this in terms of sci-fi atmosphere, combat tension, feel of unsettle. SSR ost feels mostly relaxing, even combat themes gives you feel like "oh, thats combat music, oh, thats an enemy" Aaaand SS2 ost speaks clearly: you gonna suffer and there's no cover Again, its not bad ost, at all, but not exactly sci-fi one, not distinctable like SS2 ost
I get what you mean with the ambient themes. I think this soundtrack leans a little too hard into guitar with delay pedal. It's probably meant to be an homage to Prey, but Prey had a lot more sonic diversity and didn't use delay pedal this much. But I disagree with holding up SS2 soundtrack as this wholly unique "sci-fi" sound. It seems like you don't listen to much D&B, jungle, techno, or industrial because SS2's soundtrack could not be any more a product of those genres of that time. Incredible compositions but hardly distinctive sound or particularly sci-fi, the fact that it's so emblematic of electronic music of its era is partially why it's so memorable. A cyberpunk game paired with 90s rave music hits the same kind of sweet dissonance that the Fallout games do for me, with their post-apocalyptic leatherpunk aesthetic mixed with 50s pop.
@@mmd3585 Prey was inspired by the overall design philosophy, not absolutely every aspect of the game. Prey's musical identity is distinct from the System Shock games. It also had more diverse instrumentation than just guitar with effects pedals.
not trying to flame your opinion, but when i start to use many things to compare it too. I figure huh maybe this is its own standing pillar of influence.
More like deus ex (especially the deus ex breach) in combat tracks and a lil bit of cyberpunk2077 in the ambient tracks, especially Alt Cunningham theme.
@@63Limar this game ost isn't like deus ex, that ost is a separate ball park. The elevator music is zaney, but the system shock remake ost isn't zaney like deus ex.
@@63Limar i get that. I didn't mention anything about the gameplay. I only mentioned that Deus Ex ost is zaney and nothing like system shock remake ost. Common Versa life vesus the Excuitive ost. Its apples to oranges
This soundtrack would be great if I could actually hear it in the game. A lot of the atmospheric tracks when there's no combat going on were way too quiet and barely made an impact for me. I have to believe it must have been a bug or something for the music to be so quiet in-game when the original game had a bunch of incredibly catchy and impressive tracks.
While the Elevator music is about as perfect as it can be, I wonder what happened here with the rest of the System Shock music? The original game had such a catchy and iconic soundtrack and it's mostly absent throughout the game. It's not that the music is bad but it's just holding itself back and even barely there during most of the game play. The music playback is also heavily leaning on the ambient tracks. The choice to go with ambient music is what I have most problem with as instead of creating scary or oppressive atmosphere most of the time the music just kind of is there minding its own thing in the background. System Shock 2 pulled the ambient tracks so incredibly well that playing a any of the tracks instantly sets the mood. Here I get... nothing.
I loved original sshk soundtrack, i also loved enhanced remix. This one through out the game went a bit unnoticed by me. During game play i really missed the original tune. Not that this one is bad, but came a bit too ambient for my taste. Only 3 tracks really got my attention elevator, executive and cyberspace. Though reactor main theme was ok, could have been more darker. But soundtrack was overal good, other sounds were very poor in game - mutants, mutated animals , robots they didn`t gave me thirlls like the original Sshk
The elevator music - in the midst of the most atmospheric, nerve wracking game of all time you then step into the lift and... Damn if this isn't the single greatest piece of lounge music ever written.
@@chaimafaghet7343 The game does have a dynamic music system though. At worst it's missing the weird bleeps indicating whether an organic/robotic enemy is nearby, or the soundfont changing when entering a certain room, which happened only like, twice in the original game.
@@papayer Tbh, the sound designer of both SS1 and 2 admitted people didn't even noticed the music changing when a robotic/organic enemy is nearby which is actually true, though it was a part of the music but never knew that was the purpose until someone told me about it.
![System Shock Remake - Extended Medical Ambient Music [Over 1 Hour]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2Zy4pIL9taM/mqdefault.jpg)
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This game deserves WAY more attention and praise than it has currently. One of my absolute favorites.
At first I thought they had gone for a more ambient soundtrack (which actually makes sense, the ambient music improves the creepy mood of System Shock), and I was a bit sad because I enjoyed the electronic midis of the original, but then I got to the combat soundtrack... Holy crap it goes pretty hard. I like how they managed to do both.
I feel that Mick Gordon's work had an influence in the combat tracks, it's not the sort of thing that you'd hear in Doom Eternal, but it has a similar essence, it's noisy and visceral, very industrial.
It's neither bad music nor as fully atmospheric as I feared in the combat tracks, but other than Cyberspace, almost none of the others really feel like proper representation of the music tracks. Occasionally hearing a few bars of the original melody in the back of the combat track isn't really the same. The original ost was both really good and had a lot potential for remixing when using modern hardware to make and play it, so I can't help but feel disappointed.
@@Lastofthemohaggens Original ost is a bit to loud for the pace of the new game. And to be brutally honest, it never fit the theme of the original game either. Game is as depressing and bleak as can be, meanwhile the music is blaring in your ear like you're playing doom. Just never meshed well imo.
@@godfrey4461 I completely disagree, if it was System Shock 2 then maybe, but System Shock 1 was much more fast paced and bizarre in comparison. Infact, I would argue that the soundtrack CARRIED a lot of the backtracking and tedium of the original since the music was so unique and such an ear worm. If it was just this depressing drone ambience instead, I think players would get bored MUCH quicker.
@@HouseTrapJay Couldn't agree more. Turning my energy shields on then rushing with my roller boots towards a hulking mecha, my laser rapier gripped tightly just as the berserk kicks in. It really is a dance and I miss the original sound, especially the security theme.
Executive track is a masterpiece.
Sounds very Prey-like, which is ironic considering that Prey was essentially a tribute to System Shock in the first place
Executive Explore track made me just stand and listen, soaking in the vibes. Amazing piece
typical, the executives also got the theatre where normal workers are not invited 😢
Just like in the original game. You can even hear the synth melody of the original in the Explore track and the bassline of the original in the Combat track.
Clearly inspiration from the soundtrack of Prey by Mick Gordon
I love how everyone unanimously loves the executive themes because I remember being SHOOK when I was playing through the game hearing these themes. Like it’s the kind of music that makes you really feel like some shit is going down. Glad everyone else feels the same way. Opulence and Ostentation is just the kind of track that really makes you feel like you’re progressing.
The compositor is a genius ! 😄
I really love how as the game progresses and the hacker gets closer to challenging Shodan the guitar becomes a stronger and stronger part of the tracks, beginning to overpower the electronic instruments that dominated the early game tracks. The clash and struggle between the hacker represented by the guitar and Shodan represented by the electronic instruments reflects the games progress in a really beautiful and interesting way. The differences between the combat and base tracks of each area really highlight this as during downtime the guitar is more present, the hacker has room to breathe, prepare and improve. Whereas in the combat tracks deep bassy synths, overpowering synth leads and electric drums completely swamp the guitar. Combat is where Shodan exerts control and it isn't until later tracks where the guitar begins to fight for an even footing in the mixing. In combat tracks the guitar lingers under and sweeps in and out with gasping breaths while caught in the wave of synthetic instruments until Flight Deck, Executive and Systems Engineering when the guitar begins to find a powerful voice.
Stellar soundtrack. Just wish it's what we had on spotify.
Is the OST on spotify different?
@@ut0p1an_dyst0p1a It may be my region but the only OST on spotify for me is a modern recreation of the original game's OST which is not this.
@@ut0p1an_dyst0p1a It's the SS1 Enhanced Edition soundtrack, which has the Roland and Sound Blaster 2 renditions of the midi tracks from the original 1994 release.
@@ut0p1an_dyst0p1a The OST for this game is on bandcamp, but sadly, a lot of the motifs mentioned in the OP are not present in this OST mix, for reasons unknown. Security, in particular, has a distorted guitar playing for most of its combat sequences because it's filled with intense combat. That guitar isn't present at all in the track on this album.
That logic tracks, because the beta grove has zero guitars. Because that place SHODAN's playground, she holds all the cards, and it has so much contamination that literally nowhere in there feels safe. So when you finally jettison it, it's a huge middle finger to SHODAN, and marks the point where she goes from condescending disdain to absolutely seething. I love it!!
I love the Executive themes
quality taste
Honestly, such a banger. I went wild on executive just because of how hard that track goes.
Imho, Reactor themes are the best
Best music of the original game's soundtrack too
@@blueaustralis3736Same lol. Stepping out of the elevator I noticed I had somehow hoarded 70 rounds of Osmium Magnum ammo and just put it down on all the Daft Punk robots marching the halls. Track makes you feel like such a badass.
Although it seemed to me that this game was somehow difficult in terms of goals, but after finishing it completely I was so upset that it ended. One of the best games this year
I love the subtle references to the original soundtrack.
Been waiting for someone to upload the full OST as it doesn’t shine much in the game for some reason. Thanks a ton, man!
Maybe mess with your audio settings a little? I have a really nice headset though and it really brings out every tone in the music during gameplay, even when enemies are talking and shooting. Almost as if it was designed to be heard and felt binauraly, especially the research combat theme when it pulls from one side of the ear to the other if you get my meaning
It's really quiet if you play on speakers/TV.
@@spvrda Means you didn't adjust any settings for your system.
@@mrstealyourgirl3638 mixing isnt shit you need your ears replaced
It really doesn't come through in the game for me. The only strong track is the elevator music.
Definitely been a great year for me playing these remakes (System Shock, Black Mesa, Resi 4) but System Shock was something truly special. No handholding, no direction, just dropped straight in with nothing but your own wits and intuition to get through it. How video games are SUPPOSED TO BE! 👏
Dead Space remake?
Freaking great soundtrack imo and I absolutely love the use of the guitars in a lot of the tracks. So sick. I swear when that Mantis Cyborg first appeared I did almost shit myself
Mantis Cyborgs are weak af though 😂
@@Palpus_X They are super easy to deal with yeah but the first time you ever see one the first thing it does is leap at you and it's pretty scary.
For better or worse, that damn elevator music is what you'll remember most!
It is a bop, though.
I'm playing this now.. I'm a huge fan of the original looking glass game as well as the 1999 sequel.. its been years since I played games on the PC.. the tension & atmosphere is very intense..
The combat music is like the perfect blend of the modern ambiant tracks during exploration, with haunting tones and a unique retro-futuristic feel, and System Shock 2's more extreme electronic style. It's literally blending the best of both worlds.
Very difficult to pull off properly, so happy it works well!
52:20 One of the best.
"This is what you want, this is what you get"
- Ancient Corporate Motto
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Has a kind of Starcraft 1 vibe to it. Old school, but more fitting and still pretty damn good.
Interesting comparison. I know someone who even compared one particular track (Executive level one) to Payday 2 ost. But Starcraft comparison is interesting.
👍
Was thinking the same thing, the Zerg tracks of the original game had similar industrial rock sensibilities
Low-G Experiments (Reactor) is an amazing low key tense atmosphere builder. Love it!
I really like how the cyberspace music sorta harks that synth tone used a lot in the SS2 OST.
I actually extracted all the music from the game and was going to do something similar to this myself. Thank GOD someone else did it because due to how the music is constructed in layers and meters internally with the dynamic music system. it would have taken a day or two of me in FL Studio to put this all together from just the audio files. Thanks for saving me the work lol.
I think this is the official ost. I would really love to hear some parts more drawn out like when you’re actually playing the game.
@@drinks_menu I wonder if people would actually be interested in seeing what it looks like for one of the sections or pieces of a song to be put together manually, it's quite tedious but I personally find it quite interesting so maybe others would too, I could certainly demonstrate it with a freeform video.
I also have a hook into the music system in-game to play with the dynamic music, I'll definitely make a video of that to show it in action when you control it.
I ended up making that video th-cam.com/video/evdUHyC-RGg/w-d-xo.html
@@KyleB873 Hey, that's pretty cool
Containment Failure Warning really sounds like H.U.V.A. Network I love it.
This is my personal game of the year, and I absolutely love its soundtrack. I like how each track incorporates bits from the OG game's soundtrack. I ESPECIALLY like how the music gets more aggressive as you progress through the game -- it's as if the music unleashes itself in parallel to the Hacker's progress.
Gives me some veeeery slight Prey'17 vibes with the guitar in some spots.
Burgeoning empire of steel is great, executive level is great... this entire games soundtrack is great.
Very deep and atmospheric. It harmonizes well with the setting of the game.
system shock 94 system reshock
🤝
exec being the best track in the ost
Thanks so much for this! Great soundtrack, I wish it featured more noticeably during gameplay.
Cybernetic Canopy is genuinely one of the best tracks in the game, the ambience as you explore the groves is... perfect
the intro is a masterpiece
Who is composer? This full soundtrack is incredible
The composer is named Jonathan Peros.
I wish they were on spotify
Groves combat and executive are SLAPPIN'
Intro goes fucking hard. Dope remaster of the og intro song
Its a great synthwave/80s feeling soundtrack.
Thanks for uploading, been looking for these legit everywhere.
This is surprisingly good!
awesome soundtrack, the first one after intro (Medical) really sets the tone, it creates an amazing atmosphere right away. One of my favourite from the OST beside Executive :)
36:18 Certified Banger.
damn, wish there were boss variants here, with the electric guitar
Executive theme goes hardddd, my favorite level for sure.
Thanks for uploading this, boyo. There's one track in there I might be able to use a portion of for an upcoming video...
#ThanksForProvidingTheDerangedWithASafeSpaceOnYT
Not gonna lie, I spent a solid 10 minutes just jamming to the Reactor music when I finally had enough time between hopper spawns to get to the melody.
01:29:53 That elevator music are give me more chilling and preparing :)
I'm playing through System Shock for the first time and I love the music! I've heard it's different from the original, but still it's sooo good 😍.
For what it is worth, the soundtrack is very closely reminiscent of all the original themes, all they have done is bridge the gap between the almost intrusive DOS midi soundtracks of yesteryear, and the subtle background ambience we have come to expect in our modern new-fangled games.
It's really hard to put into words what they have done, but imagine if Pink Floyd had been tasked with the challenge of toning down Katy Perry just a tiny weeny little bit, I mean to say that DOS game soundtracks were in your face is something of an understatement.
Have fun ! 😄
Pretty incredible! Thanks for uploading this
Sooo where can I buy this soundtrack 🥲
I don't understand why people are sleeping on this soundtrack so much. Obviously it's apples to oranges with the original, there's no crazy live multichannel procedural MIDI blending thing going on, but it's a REALLY great soundtrack. The NIN influence is really strong in both versions; the 1994 one is just more "Pretty Hate Machine" where the 2023 one is a bit more Berlin-era Bowie, Tangerine Dream, "Ghosts I-IV", Dragon Tattoo soundtrack type shit. and the composer makes nice, nuanced use of a handful of themes from the original soundtrack. idk, I just hear a lot of folks talk about this game like there's no music at all or that what's there is bad and literally neither of those things are true.
I love the sort of "Steve Vai, ebow in space" thing, it very much gives early 90s cyberpunk. I like the way it takes on djentier, Doom 2016-ish elements without becoming really tacky, overdone dubstep that many composers tend to score contemporary cyberpunk stuff with. It's just a straightforward soundtrack as opposed to a fancy interactive thing, but it's a damn good soundtrack that matches the updated game perfectly.
This is a certified hood classic
Never heard anything like this before, the atmosphere created by some of these tracks are especially spine tingling to me
Throne Room of a God goes hard and I wish it was twice as long as it is. Should have been the final boss theme.
reactor combat hits it as it used to be
man what an excellent soundtrack!
Reminds me of Prey
"Domain linked" tunes well with my endorphine injectors.
Absolutely fantastic score. As catchy and iconic as the original tracks are, this new sound fits the isolated tone of the game so much better.
Ss is remake masterpiece.
Thanks for the upload
never noticed how much of the original soundtrack they preserved, loved that one
good music is a good sign of a good game
good.
Everyone here talking about Executive, but Research - Combat goes incredibly hard.
Incredible soundtrack. Great game!!
i love how some of the elements from previous levels join the steady bass guitar in security, the leitmotif in this game goes deeper than people realize.
I have no nostalgic connection to the original, some tracks in that are absolutely marvelous, like Research and then the Security/Bridge, but this is more fitting.
Very atmospheric, very much helps the setting of Citadel Station to be even more creepy than it is. The dynamic music works very well for combat, nothing else to say really.
A job well done.
the ost reminded me alot of the prey soundtrack
Reactor is 🔥
I loved walking around in game when the combat soundtrack wouldnt stop but I couldnt see anything trying to kill me.
Medical theme is literally perfect
Strange to hear that the cyberspace track is GOOD remix of original, but others don`t give a damn about past.
Man, original reactor remix would be a great, but something go wrong....
Hope there will be mods for music.
They're not exactly remixes but you can clearly hear lots of motifs and chord progressions from the original here. Reactor in particular is an odd one to complain about since the bassline of the original drives the whole track, it's one of the more faithful recreations of the original music in the whole soundtrack.
Track 1 giving me goosebumps.
Also interesting how some of the old sound effects are mixed in with the tracks.
For some reason I'm listening to this and imagining Frank Herbert's Dune. This ost is such deep diverse masterpiece for me.
Masterpiece
Brain-meltingly amazing soundtrack.
Really like the low G experiments theme. Having the synthesized steel drums sounds cool !
Interesting how a lot of the melodies from the original peek through, most distinct on the Reactor & Executive floors... Although imo, the Reactor floor's industrial robot-rock was iconic & a great fit, and they should've leaned into for the remake
Cyberpunk 2077,Ghostrunner & System Shock. I be eating good
this shit is so funky
So grove does have a track just it is bugged and dont play during the stage.
Weirdly enough I haven't encountered like half of this stuff. For example in the medical I only heard those synths bells, but never the bass line... Also for me usually battle music consisted only from one synth proggression, which sounded pretty clumsy
I think there's bugs with the music, I barely heard any of this too.
Don't know why everyone loves Executive so much but my favourites are Security and Bridge
Very solid score. I'm glad they hired decent composer for a decent remake.
some of these like Groves are a massive improvement, though the OG Executive and Security themes were too hard to top.
52:14, that gutiar kicking in has to be a prey reference
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Well
First of all, that ost performed rly good. I especially like smooth transition from non-combat themes to combat.
But if feels pretty... generic. Like most of the idle themes can fit in other games and settings. Like you can put It into something like R6 Siedge menu or Battletech game and they will fit just fine
So, ost dont feel that It belongs to sci-fi game. Olny in some combat themes you can hear electronic bits like bips, clicks, beats, etc.
Im comparing It with SS2 ost, and SS2's one completely obliterate this in terms of sci-fi atmosphere, combat tension, feel of unsettle.
SSR ost feels mostly relaxing, even combat themes gives you feel like "oh, thats combat music, oh, thats an enemy"
Aaaand SS2 ost speaks clearly: you gonna suffer and there's no cover
Again, its not bad ost, at all, but not exactly sci-fi one, not distinctable like SS2 ost
SS2’s OST is mostly just drum and bass with rock guitar and some moody atmospheric music. It slaps but is a product of its time.
I get what you mean with the ambient themes. I think this soundtrack leans a little too hard into guitar with delay pedal. It's probably meant to be an homage to Prey, but Prey had a lot more sonic diversity and didn't use delay pedal this much.
But I disagree with holding up SS2 soundtrack as this wholly unique "sci-fi" sound. It seems like you don't listen to much D&B, jungle, techno, or industrial because SS2's soundtrack could not be any more a product of those genres of that time. Incredible compositions but hardly distinctive sound or particularly sci-fi, the fact that it's so emblematic of electronic music of its era is partially why it's so memorable. A cyberpunk game paired with 90s rave music hits the same kind of sweet dissonance that the Fallout games do for me, with their post-apocalyptic leatherpunk aesthetic mixed with 50s pop.
@@SaulGoodman3D2049 Prey is a homage do System Shock itself, so it is faithful to what the original product was.
@@mmd3585 Prey was inspired by the overall design philosophy, not absolutely every aspect of the game. Prey's musical identity is distinct from the System Shock games. It also had more diverse instrumentation than just guitar with effects pedals.
This OST...It's like portal 1+2 mixed with no mans sky ambience, Doom, and Time splitters. Weird but awesome :)
not trying to flame your opinion, but when i start to use many things to compare it too. I figure huh maybe this is its own standing pillar of influence.
More like deus ex (especially the deus ex breach) in combat tracks and a lil bit of cyberpunk2077 in the ambient tracks, especially Alt Cunningham theme.
@@63Limar this game ost isn't like deus ex, that ost is a separate ball park. The elevator music is zaney, but the system shock remake ost isn't zaney like deus ex.
@@victorvatari8333 I am comparing the soundtrack of these games, not the gameplay
@@63Limar i get that. I didn't mention anything about the gameplay. I only mentioned that Deus Ex ost is zaney and nothing like system shock remake ost. Common Versa life vesus the Excuitive ost. Its apples to oranges
I don't get the hate for this
Itsounds like Michael Mccann's Deus Ex HR soundtrack
This soundtrack would be great if I could actually hear it in the game. A lot of the atmospheric tracks when there's no combat going on were way too quiet and barely made an impact for me. I have to believe it must have been a bug or something for the music to be so quiet in-game when the original game had a bunch of incredibly catchy and impressive tracks.
no clue what yall are talking about, I heard all the music loud and clear just fine lmao.
While the Elevator music is about as perfect as it can be, I wonder what happened here with the rest of the System Shock music?
The original game had such a catchy and iconic soundtrack and it's mostly absent throughout the game. It's not that the music is bad but it's just holding itself back and even barely there during most of the game play. The music playback is also heavily leaning on the ambient tracks.
The choice to go with ambient music is what I have most problem with as instead of creating scary or oppressive atmosphere most of the time the music just kind of is there minding its own thing in the background. System Shock 2 pulled the ambient tracks so incredibly well that playing a any of the tracks instantly sets the mood. Here I get... nothing.
Sounds like Front Line Assembly.
Most of the tracks that play in the game don't sound anything like what's being shown here.
Medical is the best!
8:15 This one slaps SO BLOODY HARD
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I honestly prefer the original soundtrack because it had such a beat
I always listen this playlist when i debbug with mess code
Damn dont remember Maintenance being that good
X22 Fucking Insane !!!
I loved original sshk soundtrack, i also loved enhanced remix. This one through out the game went a bit unnoticed by me. During game play i really missed the original tune. Not that this one is bad, but came a bit too ambient for my taste. Only 3 tracks really got my attention elevator, executive and cyberspace. Though reactor main theme was ok, could have been more darker. But soundtrack was overal good, other sounds were very poor in game - mutants, mutated animals , robots they didn`t gave me thirlls like the original Sshk
To take that original soundtrack and make this out of it, seriously fantastic.
Awesome soundtrack, definitely a huge contributor in how good the game is.
The elevator music - in the midst of the most atmospheric, nerve wracking game of all time you then step into the lift and... Damn if this isn't the single greatest piece of lounge music ever written.
this is way better than OG soundtrack, OG is good too but he is not appropriate for remake
Yeah, while the original has some great tracks, this needed more ambience and atmosphere, and I think that they nailed it.
@@FightingForceSoulless What it needed was an adaptive soundtrack like the original.
@@chaimafaghet7343 The game does have a dynamic music system though. At worst it's missing the weird bleeps indicating whether an organic/robotic enemy is nearby, or the soundfont changing when entering a certain room, which happened only like, twice in the original game.
@@papayer Tbh, the sound designer of both SS1 and 2 admitted people didn't even noticed the music changing when a robotic/organic enemy is nearby which is actually true, though it was a part of the music but never knew that was the purpose until someone told me about it.