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BioShock. BioShock. Synopsis[edit] Setting[edit] Despite the apparent utopia, class distinctions grew, and former gangster and businessman Frank Fontaine used his influence of the lower class to plan a coup of Rapture. Fontaine created black market routes with the surface world, and together with Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum, created a cheap plasmid industry by mass-producing ADAM through the implanting of the slugs in the stomachs of orphaned girls, nicknamed "Little Sisters".

Fontaine used his plasmid-enhanced army to attack Ryan, but reportedly was killed in the battle. Ryan took the opportunity to seize his assets including the plasmid factories. Tension came to a head on New Year's Eve of 1959, when Atlas ordered an all-out attack on Ryan. Plot[edit] BioShock '​s game design drew on Art Deco for much of its imagery.[25] Jack is contacted by Atlas via radio, and is guided to safety from the Splicers and the perils of the run down city.

Jack is saved by Dr. Gameplay[edit] Development[edit] Game design[edit] BioShock. BioShock 2. BioShock 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Marin for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.[3][4] The sequel to the 2007 video game BioShock, it was released worldwide on February 9, 2010. The OS X version of the game was released by Feral Interactive on March 30, 2012.[5] Gameplay[edit] As the player explores Rapture, they will collect ammo, health, recovery items, money and EVE (a liquid used to power plasmid use).

Money can be used to purchase more items at vending machines scattered around the city. The player will also encounter security systems which can be hacked through a mini-game; this requires the player to stop a quick-moving needle one or more times in the correctly colored areas of a gauge. A Big Sister As a Big Daddy, the player can attempt to defeat other Big Daddies who are themselves escorting Little Sisters. Multiplayer[edit] BioShock 2 features a story-driven multiplayer mode in which the player takes on the role of a citizen of Rapture. BioShock 2. BioShock Infinite. Synopsis[edit] Setting[edit] BioShock Infinite takes place in the steampunk air city of Columbia.[1] Initially seen as the pride of the United States, tensions eventually rose between Columbia and the American government.

In 1901, against the government's wishes, Columbia brutally and violently put an end to the Boxer Rebellion in Peking.[7] This event revealed the floating city was a heavily armed aerial battleship, capable of unleashing devastation across the world.[6] The American government subsequently demanded Columbia's return to sovereign soil, and, in response, Columbia seceded from the United States and disappeared into the clouds, its location soon lost to everyone else.[7] Free from outside influence, Comstock now had complete control over the city, transforming it from a floating world's fair to a theocratic police state. Characters[edit] Plot[edit] In 1912, Booker DeWitt is taken by Robert and Rosalind Lutece to an island lighthouse off the coast of Maine. Gameplay[edit] Age Gate | Bioshock.

BioShock (series) In response to a question from the gaming website IGN about what influenced the game's story and setting, Levine said, "I have my useless liberal arts degree, so I've read stuff from Ayn Rand, George Orwell and all the sort of utopian and dystopian writings of the 20th century, and having developed the System Shock franchise, some of my first games, I felt that the atmosphere was a good one to set for a dystopian environment, one we borrowed heavily from System Shock. "[10] Levine has also mentioned an interest in "stem cell research and the moral issues that go around [it]. "[10] In regard to artistic influences, Levine cited the books Nineteen Eighty-Four and Logan's Run, representing societies that have "really interesting ideas screwed up by the fact that we're people According to the developers, BioShock is a spiritual successor to the System Shock games, and was produced by former developers of that series.

To me, there's two things that make a BioShock game BioShock.