Bioshock releases artbook online

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Brother None

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From Cult of Rapture:<blockquote>Way back when I was creating the BioShock Limited Edition, I took a poll for what you guys wanted to see in the box. And while we managed to put your top 3 choices in – the Making of DVD, Sountrack CD, and Big Daddy Figurine, we just couldn’t manage a BioShock artbook.

But with a game as beautiful as BioShock, that just didn’t sit right with me. Because everyone should be able to experience the beauty of BioShock, see the concept art and visualize the evolution of building such a revolutionary game.

So, with the help of the BioShock team and an amazing art designer, I put together a BioShock artbook for everyone to download. Here it is, in all its glory, in two PDF versions: a smaller, ebook download, and a more hi-resolution version that you can take to your local printshop and bind.

The one thing I’d recommend is skipping over Ken’s foreword until after you’ve played the game, as it holds some spoilers you might want to keep secret your first playthrough is complete. </blockquote>Link: Download Bioshock: Breaking The Mold.

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I will note that this is officially to freakin' awesome for words.

They can't release an artbook through Limited Edition, so what do they do? They just toss it online for free.

That's just...insanely nice.
 
Meanwhile Bethesda blacklists us and goes with the "three pixel chairs versus immershun" routine...

The artbook is awesome by the way. I wish it had more Rapture concept art though. Now I hope Bioshock will reach the success it deserves.
 
Brother None said:
I will note that this is officially to freakin' awesome for words.

They can't release an artbook through Limited Edition, so what do they do? They just toss it online for free.

That's just...insanely nice.
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yes it is. I hope everyone in the Fallout community supports Irrational Games after such a great development process where Ken Levine has been out and about clarifying, showing and sharing the art and gameplay with anyone interested enough to ask.

Also, if you've been a forum member at 2k games for over 2 weeks you can e-mail their community member and ask for free schwag. 360 faceplate, Bioshock t-shirt, poster, these neat syringe pens, etc.

:)
 
well, this kind of behavior creates life long fans and a solid community. it pays for itself. too bad many studios don't see it that way...
 
I like it when the fans get love letters such as this.

"Hey you like us, we like you!"

As opposed to

"Enough questions, you're bothering us"

But the art is awesome, I am looking at it all right now, pretty cool stuff. I'm gonna give my dad the link cause he would apreciate this very much so.
 
I love the interior art. It looks like such a great mix of retro-50s and Victorian styles.

But I really love the evolution of the Little Sister. some awesome ideas in there, I love the seemingly dead baby in a squat little suit, that one is incredibly disturbing. The mechanical and slug Harvesters are cool, too.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
The foreword warns of spoilers, hence I shall not endeavor to peruse the said publication.
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the spoilers are just in the thank you's to individual team members. The art itself really isn't anything we haven't seen before (outside of the development stuff for things we have seen, like what Kharn mentioned)...
 
indeed. the spoiler stuff is supposed to be only in the written text pages with the names of the art team.
 
I'm not really interested in the game itself, but the way they're handling PR is unusually appealing. Or something like that.
 
Evil corporate interests won't "learn" anything from Bioshock unless it sells eleventy-billion copies.

So go buy it already.
 
I knew that small good-feeling twinge in my chest was good and not a heart attack when I preordered this. I can't wait to play it, especially after the incredible demo.
 
Gaaaar. Hope they have enough collector's edition copies to fill all the preorders. I see they're sold out of PC CE's online, and I've got a sinking suspicion the store is gonna screw me. I'll be sad if I can't get my greasy hands on a big daddy figure.

And hey, another Iowan.
 
Kan-Kerai said:
Evil corporate interests won't "learn" anything from Bioshock unless it sells eleventy-billion copies.
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I'd normally predict it to flop, just like SS. But it has hype.

I hate hype.

I hate hype for these guys, too.

But I can forgive it because they're such nice guys.

But still, hype is hype. the game can't live up to the hype, because that's what hype is; something you promise but can't possibly deliver. Two possibilities:

1. It is close enough to delivering to fool people into thinking the hype was true, like Oblivion (but maybe in a better way than Oblivion).

2. It isn't close enough and flops.

Let's wait and see.
 
can't wait for the game to be released, i really like the artwork and art direction of bioshock, it does remind me of fallout.
 
i cannot freaking WAIT for this game to be released!!1 i've read as little into as possible because, i think it will be better to learn what it's about as i play it! i know it is underwater and it could be similar to ss2, thats freaking yes A+.
i really hope you get to leave the city and walk around the seabed in one of those old style diving suits, that would make me buy it twice in case i scratched it!
 
Brother None said:
I hate hype.

I hate hype for these guys, too.

But I can forgive it because they're such nice guys.

But still, hype is hype. the game can't live up to the hype, because that's what hype is; something you promise but can't possibly deliver. Two possibilities:
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the hype hasn't really been manufactured from the onset though. It's been building steadily as more and more people have had face time with the game itself.

That's the kind of hype I can get behind. The people's hype. :mrgreen:
 
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