Yep. It very much played like the System Shock 3 it was intended to be- if EA had made it. (Gee, I wonder why!). The sequels were "not quite as good" and "WHY?", respectively.
Now here's a question for YOU: if a game sold well and is highly regarded, why remake it? Why try to improve on what's already good? All you're going to do is make fans angry. (You see this with movies, too.). What they SHOULD do, if they simply *must* remake something, is to redo, say, Ultima 8- you couldn't possibly make it WORSE, after all.