What would be good, imo (and I am not a gam designer, so take my opinion with a huge pinch of salt), would be to try to follow the original intro's flow of events (how the hacker hacks into Citadel, then gets caught, then hacks into SHODAN, then SHODAN becomes evil, etc etc) but to do it in a more modern way, and if possible, incorporate the events in the user manual into the intro. It can't be remade it was awesome for its time (and you can tell how much I love it by reading my OP), but it wouldn't be awesome in a modern game it would just be cheap. With all due respect to Looking Glass' amazing intro, it just wouldn't work in a modern remake.

I really hope they include the parts of the story contained in the user manual in the game they show how insidious, patient and calculating SHODAN is and really make the game more enjoyable to play. The timeline is really cool, imo, because it describes how SHODAN slowly and patiently took over Citadel, and how people weren't able to tell that it was her taking over the security systems and infecting the people on board the station people weren't even able to connect the events that were occurring together, until it was too late. The System Shock user manual contains a timeline of the events that occurred on Citadel Station before the game starts, and emails between TriOptimum employees. More importantly, do they plan to incorporate the story that is written in the System Shock 1 user manual?

But everything else about the intro is awesome, too from the way the story is told, to the music, progression of events, etc.

I absolutely love the intro from System Shock 1, especially how SHODAN goes from sounding normal to sounding evil. I was wondering if the intro of the System Shock remake has been revealed or if we have any idea how it is going to be.

System shock's intro theme