Today I am going to review BioShock, the critically acclaimed game which has received praise from many people/sources. We are going to see if the game lives up to the hype while looking deeper into the world of Rapture.

Author: SirBaron
Editor: Cyko

BioShock:

BioShock is a first person shooter with some differences, most notably your ability to hack systems, use plasmids (powers gained through genetic manipulation), upgrade weapons, and gain more Adam (one of the currencies in Rapture) to buy upgrades to further enhance your character. Sound familiar? That's because the same people who made BioShock also created System Shock 2, and this game is it's spiritual successor.

You play as Jack, a passenger of a Mid-Atlantic flight which crashes into the sea. Upon surfacing and finding out that you are the only survivor, you look up and see a lighthouse shaped building in the middle of the ocean. After entering the building, you find a bathysphere (transport vessel) which takes you to where the game really starts, the city of Rapture. Rapture is an underwater city built to escape the judgment of man, where morality has no place, and where science has no limits.

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