BioShock

Main GameReleased 2007

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Game Details

Genres

ShooterPuzzleRole-playing (RPG)Adventure

Themes

ActionScience fictionHorrorStealthOpen world

Perspective

First person

Game Modes

Single player

Release Date

21/08/2007

Platforms

PC (Microsoft Windows)MacXbox 360

Language Support

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Involved Companies

Demiurge Studios

Supporting

2K Games

Publisher

2K Boston

Developer

Robosoft Technologies

Porting

2K Australia

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Summary

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 game is described by the developers as a spiritual successor to their previous PC title System Shock 2. BioShock received high praise in critical reviews for its atmospheric audio and visual quality, absorbing and original plot and its unique gaming experience.

Story

In the year 1960, a plane crashes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a man named Jack as the only survivor. He has the apparent luck of resurfacing in front of what looks like a door to an underwater complex. Without hesitating, Jack enters the door and is greeted by slogans that praise the city of Rapture, a paradise of free will built in the 1940s by a business magnate named Andrew Ryan. However, even before he assimilates all this new information, the descent to this supposed paradise ends and he can only see ruins and chaos. Learning about the destiny of Rapture will be now Jack's main motivation while he tries to survive the horrors that free can create.