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Glaine:
I just want to try to inform anyone who has no clue what this game is about just a little bit because I have had no clue and the trailers and this post don't really help (although the trailers do look really good). I don't really feel like any of this is spoiler material, but if you don't even want to know what the game is about then skip this. I for one was perplexed and have been wanting to know, though.
I only played it a bit at a friends house this weekend, but basically there is this underwater city sometime around the 1950's where there are practically no laws, but something went wrong and now it's a rather dangerous place to be. From what I've heard, it's largely due to people overdoing experimental injections that give them super-powers. So now most of the people there have become mutated monsters. And there are these creepy little kids that suck the DNA out of dead bodies or some such, which are protected by the big robot looking fellers you see on the game covers. Feel free to correct me on anything I'm wrong on, like I said I didn't play much and some of that plot was filled in by the friend who has played it a lot more than me.
AtomSmasher:
Thats basically accurate. The city was created to be a scientific utopia where people were free to study advances in science regardless of where it took them. The little girls you mentioned are genetically engineered to suck out "adam" from dead bodies, which was their biggest scientific breakthrough allowing them to give people superpowers. Unfortunately the use of these powers eventually caused people to go mad.
The storyline is actually very reminiscent of the book Atlas Shrugged and they even make some very obvious parallels to the book (For instance, in the book people often asked "Who is John Galt?", in the game there are posters all over that say "Who is Andrew Ryan?". And the name Andrew Ryan is remarkably similar to Ayn Rand, the author of the book. ). As one review I read put it, instead of Atlas Shrugged, this game is Poseidon Shrugged.
mr.Curmudgeon:
Tweak Guide's Bioshock Tweak Guide: http://www.tweakguides.com/Bioshock_1.html
Samstag:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 28, 2007, 11:54:20 am ---The storyline is actually very reminiscent of the book Atlas Shrugged and they even make some very obvious parallels to the book (For instance, in the book people often asked "Who is John Galt?", in the game there are posters all over that say "Who is Andrew Ryan?". And the name Andrew Ryan is remarkably similar to Ayn Rand, the author of the book. ). As one review I read put it, instead of Atlas Shrugged, this game is Poseidon Shrugged.
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It seems to me like a sequel to Atlas Shrugged, where we find out exactly what happens when you trust everyone to live by their own moral code. I liked the book, but asking me to believe a bunch of tough-guys could coexist in a nearly female-free utopia and getting along fine is silly. Rapture is what happens when you assume everyone will behave just because it's the "right thing to do".
p.s. Bioshock ROCKS!
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: Samstag on August 29, 2007, 01:51:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 28, 2007, 11:54:20 am ---The storyline is actually very reminiscent of the book Atlas Shrugged and they even make some very obvious parallels to the book (For instance, in the book people often asked "Who is John Galt?", in the game there are posters all over that say "Who is Andrew Ryan?". And the name Andrew Ryan is remarkably similar to Ayn Rand, the author of the book. ). As one review I read put it, instead of Atlas Shrugged, this game is Poseidon Shrugged.
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It seems to me like a sequel to Atlas Shrugged, where we find out exactly what happens when you trust everyone to live by their own moral code. I liked the book, but asking me to believe a bunch of tough-guys could coexist in a nearly female-free utopia and getting along fine is silly. Rapture is what happens when you assume everyone will behave just because it's the "right thing to do".
p.s. Bioshock ROCKS!
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Well, to be honest I'm only about a 1/4 of the way through the book, so I was mostly going from what the reviews said about it, and is why I only pointed out similarities from early in the book and the authors name.
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