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BioShock
BioShock is a horror-themed first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. The player is urged to turn everything into a weapon: biologically modifying their own body with Plasmids, hacking devices and systems, upgrading their weapons, crafting new ammo variants, and experimenting with different battle techniques are all possible. The...
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Everyone loves Bioshock, right? 10/10 all round? Well, erm, sort of. Maybe not everyone, after all. Chris is in rant mode..
The last generation consoles offered many highlights in terms of games that either meant a lot to us or enveloped us in something truly thought provoking. Of the games that fit into either category there is few that standout as the best examples of what made the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 generation great, but if we were to look back we can see one clear example of the game that truly defined the last generation of consoles and still to this day is a highlight of the overall game industry. This game is of course Bioshock, Irrational Games (as they were known as when developing Bioshock Infinit...
Starting in 1997 as a group that splintered off from Looking Glass Studios, Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey, and Robert Fermier started Irrational Games soon after finishing work on Thief: The Dark Project for PC. Two years later, Irrational debuted with their first game under the new banner with System Shock 2, a fantastic first-person Action RPG with a rich story that was scary as hell. Despite much critical acclaim, System Shock 2 was overshadowed at retail by the original Half Life game. With t...