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BioShock: Equal parts Ayn Rand, kick-ass shooter
Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters


We have a confession to make. As much as we try to remain impartial in our coverage of unreleased games, occasionally a game will penetrate our cynical, jaded defenses like ... well, like a giant needle being plunged into our rotting, turgid corpse by a ghoulish Little Sister. BioShock is just such a game so, when we get the opportunity to read a thoughtful feature on the game devoid of the mechanical checklists we're used to, we feel that giant needle piercing our ribcage again. Ahhhhh ...

Julian Murdoch at Gamers With Jobs takes us on a tour of Quincy, MA's Irrational Games, the developers behind this underwater, art-deco anus. But it's not the usual tour of a game in development, but a tour of the motivation behind creating a intellectually sophisticated game inside the framework of a "kick-ass shooter." With hefty dollops of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's political ideology, on display not only in the game's story but in it's construction, BioShock roughly mirrors the plot of Rand's polemical Atlas Shrugged. Knowing that may not interest some of you, they're of course eager to remind everyone that it's also a "kick-ass shooter."

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Source: Joystiq
Description: Joystiq

I don't fancy yours much.

I'm looking foward to this game.

Parts of the dev team all worked on the System Shock and Thief games when at Looking Glass, so I've got high hopes for it.

It's also the spiritual sucessor to System Shock 2.


I only hope it doesn't do a stalker and come out rather average.

I don't want to curse it, but it's kind of got the feel of Sue Barker's Undying at the moment.

buzzmong wrote:I only hope it doesn't do a stalker and come out rather average.

Personally I loved STALKER, the atmosphere was amazing and I love Chernobyl stuff. So if this captivates me as much that I'll be happy.