Bioshock

Platform: PC, Xbox 360
Publisher: 2K Games
Review Type: Looky
Version: E3 Preview


Bioshock is a non-traditional FPS. It's not so non-traditional that you don't actually walk around shooting shit. But it's pretty out there for a genre that trades mostly in space marines and demons. The game is set in an underwater utopia in the 1920s. It's sorta like Captain Nemo hooked up with Ayn Rand one night. You're some dude who's trying to figure out what he's doing there (yawn) and how to survive (zzzzzz) as the place collapses under the weight of the ocean (zzzz..huh?). Okay, the look and setting of the game is unique enough that I'm on board. The walkthrough I saw at E3 was enough to pique my interest in the story and setting. It helps that Irrational Game's System Shock 2 very well respected with the gamer crowd. The game cleaned up at E3 this year.

Is it me, or doesn't a game that purports to be this unique deserve a more striking name? When I think Bioshock, I think straight-to-DVD Lance Henriksen vehicle.