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The fansite Bioshock Nation has announced that Game Informer has done an exclusive on Irrational Games's Bioshock, which is the spiritual successor to System Shock 2, if the naming convention didn't give it away already. 
Details from someone who has flipped through the magazine:<blockquote>"- Core gameplay centered on player choice and customization
- Game takes place in the early 60s
- Developer's main goal is total immersion in the story
- You wake up in the ocean surrounded by debris and your first goal is survival
- Something about creatures in the ocean discovered by scientists
- "We're creating a world for to be in. What you do is up to you, and you have to live with your choices."
- One of your skills is agility and it makes you run faster
- Most upgrades will affect weapons
- You can create weapons and items
- You can hack stuff by being an engineer
- A walkthrough is useless - you take the game where you want it to go (Sounds really open ended)
- BioShock holds many mysteries
- Xbox 360 and PC - O N L Y" </blockquote>A long time ago Bioshock was supposed to take place in an abandoned Nazi research facility that was discovered in the present day, which was overrun by mutant creatures. That was scrapped, however, in favor of the new setting.
Intended to be a Capitalistic utopia, the genetic research that went on there ended up causing more harm than its initial good, and everything besides the diving suit-like robots has been turned into genetic freaks by a substance referred to as Adam. Survivors from the founding of the city wear masks to hide their disfigurements, and one of the choices the player character has to make throughout the game is whether or not to augment himself with Adam in order to survive.
Bioshock will feature a fittingly depressing and bleak game world, filled with art direction resembling a type of 50's future vision coupled with early nuclear age architectural motifs. It's scheduled for an early release in 2007 with the PC release following shortly behind the Xbox.
Also on Bioshock Nation's current update is a list of recently released Bioshock screenshots.
Links: Bioshock Nation, Bioshock on the cover of Game Informer Online, Bioshock gallery @ Tiscali Games
Details from someone who has flipped through the magazine:<blockquote>"- Core gameplay centered on player choice and customization
- Game takes place in the early 60s
- Developer's main goal is total immersion in the story
- You wake up in the ocean surrounded by debris and your first goal is survival
- Something about creatures in the ocean discovered by scientists
- "We're creating a world for to be in. What you do is up to you, and you have to live with your choices."
- One of your skills is agility and it makes you run faster
- Most upgrades will affect weapons
- You can create weapons and items
- You can hack stuff by being an engineer
- A walkthrough is useless - you take the game where you want it to go (Sounds really open ended)
- BioShock holds many mysteries
- Xbox 360 and PC - O N L Y" </blockquote>A long time ago Bioshock was supposed to take place in an abandoned Nazi research facility that was discovered in the present day, which was overrun by mutant creatures. That was scrapped, however, in favor of the new setting.
Intended to be a Capitalistic utopia, the genetic research that went on there ended up causing more harm than its initial good, and everything besides the diving suit-like robots has been turned into genetic freaks by a substance referred to as Adam. Survivors from the founding of the city wear masks to hide their disfigurements, and one of the choices the player character has to make throughout the game is whether or not to augment himself with Adam in order to survive.
Bioshock will feature a fittingly depressing and bleak game world, filled with art direction resembling a type of 50's future vision coupled with early nuclear age architectural motifs. It's scheduled for an early release in 2007 with the PC release following shortly behind the Xbox.
Also on Bioshock Nation's current update is a list of recently released Bioshock screenshots.
Links: Bioshock Nation, Bioshock on the cover of Game Informer Online, Bioshock gallery @ Tiscali Games
