BioShock cover

BioShock 2007

Released
August 21, 2007
Genres
Shooter · Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Platforms
PlayStation 3 · PC · Mac · Xbox 360
Developers
2K Boston · 2K Australia
Publisher
2K Games
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Is it still worth playing?

2K Boston and 2K Australia's 2007 first person shooter for Windows and the Xbox 360, with role playing customisation and stealth. It is set in Rapture, an underwater city built in the 1940s by the businessman Andrew Ryan, where you play Jack, who tries to escape it, fighting its mutated and mechanical inhabitants and learning its past from the few sane survivors. Plasmids give you superpowers such as fire or electric attacks, and some open new routes, for example by melting ice that blocks a path. They cost EVE, you can equip only a limited number of plasmids and tonics, and you swap them at stations around the city. It popularised audio diaries as a way to tell a story and has been called a demonstration of video games as an art form. Rapture remains a place worth exploring today: the setting and its people tell the story, and every character gives a new view of the city.

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