You see these guys, men and women in period clothing, who've taken these drugs to change their bodies but their faces have changed horribly. Various pieces of artwork are placed on the conference room table.
A woman in a green dress with a mane of red hair, wearing a mask and wielding two hooks, for instance. This woman, she's now equipped to be what we call a 'ceiling crawler'. That's a class of creature that can jump up to the ceiling and climb all over it to attack the player. We can only hope. Later in the day, I spot a whiteboard in Levine's office with various phrases hastily jotted down.
Tilings like, 'What have I done?! What have I done?! None of which might be pant-shittingly terrifying when scrawled on a whiteboard in chunky blue marker, but if you've played System Shock 2, you know how a few sound samples can turn a regular enemy into something far more fundamentally disturbing. Bioshock will carry tin's same sort of atmosphere, with traumatised and deluded civilians screaming about everyday things such as their eternal, everlasting pain. Where the game really gets interesting however is with the inclusion of great hulking beasts called Protectors, and more importantly the very thing they protect -small and inherently scary children called Gatherers.
Not like civilians in GTA where you can pretty much ignore them, but creatures which had something you really needed. We came up with the notion of the Protector and the Gatherer. You'll see the big Protector and the little girl walking around, and they don't bother you if you don't bother them. The little girl carries this long syringe device, and there are bodies scattered throughout the world.
She'll wander around and find a dead body, before calling to her Protector to follow her. Then she'll kneel down, put this syringe in the body and extract the Adam. The only way she can process and recycle this Adam is through her own body, so she drinks the stuff, and you can watch all this happening.
As you play, you leam about how these kids came about and how they were exploited. Clearly, Rapture isn't a nice place, but it does pose some interesting moral decisions, as Levine confirms. There are people who encourage you and reward you for getting through the game without ever harmfully interacting with the Gatherers - as I said, if you don't bother them they don't bother you.
And let me tell you, the Protectors they're with? They're tough cookies. They're some of the toughest monsters in the game. But the reward for taking the Adam from the Gatherers is quite high - it means a lot of resources for you. So we're going to give you a real moral choice to make - is this something you're willing to participate in? Indeed, the idea of blasting a hole in a child's face, even a virtual child's face, to retrieve their stem cells and upgrade your body is slightly unnerving.
I shift in my seat again, but for different reasons this time. There aren't many games which place these kinds of decisions in the hands of the person at the keyboard, even fewer which make those decisions so central to the gameplay.
It's not just a matter of whether or not to kill a child though - there are a few alternative ways of acquiring the precious Adam. Without a Protector "atherer will attempt to run away, but corner one and threaten her and she'll give you some Adam. Similarly, you can befriend a Gatherer and receive even more Adam. Of course, if you want all the Adam, you need to put your child-murdering hat on and go hunting. Rather, that they're creating a believable world in which people are motivated by meaningful things and allowing you to observe these behaviours, and most importantly have the ability to interact with these behaviours.
We want a world where there's an actual ecology going on. We want a relationship between all the different players in the world including you. And more importantly, we want ways for you to interact with that ecology, have an impact on that ecology and be affected by it in ways you can plan and ways you can't". And that's precisely where Bioshock differs from System Shock 2.
With open-ended areas and a compelling world, a rich back-story waiting to be told and the sort of emergent gameplay mentality you find in sandbox games such as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion with a first-person RPG you just knew that reference was coming , Bioshock will be something very special indeed. It's a game that in everything but name, we've been praying might happen for a long time - and a game that will 'spiritually' give the System Shock series the full recognition it deserves.
Ken Levine, president of developer Irrational Games, is a big fan of utopias They have their own goals," says Levine. If you don't get i n their way, they won't bother you. Live and let live. But if you mess with them--watch out The Big Daddies aren't the forgiving type. Says Ken Levine, and we're instantly grateful for two things. One, that he's the president and creative director of a game company and not, say, prepping us for a frazzling day in mall security.
So we're going to assume that setting up a perimeter in BioShock, Irrational's first made-for-console game, will be fathoms more interesting than doing it in many other first-person shooters. Due on Xbox August and, we expect, the PS3 eventually--BioShock is an under-the-sea adventure bulging at the bulkheads with customizable powers and weapons, smart and motivated enemies, and torturous moral choices that involve killing what appear to be 8 year olds.
Other sunken pleasures: the occasional flaming teddy bear and a camera to capture all the high-minded carnage and research new killing skills. Trip wires? Telekinetic tornado-generating doodad? Got it. Helpful hovering machine-gun drone? Got two of those. And with that we're braced to build our security perimeter, seconds away from an onslaught of genetically jacked-up enemies known as Splicers blow-torching through the steel hatch in front of us.
However this encounter plays out--and we'll get to that later--we know we can replay it daily and never see the same scenario. We try to make it so there are five different ways to do everything. Few games, after all, have a fan base as frothed, where the most common message-board worry is--yikes! Levine predicts a hour playthrough for aquanauts who take a holiday pace.
Today we're going leagues deeper than anyone has yet ventured into the game's world, playing levels for the first time and experimenting with never-before-revealed weapons, powers, and strategies. If you're not yet in the cult, we've got your Kool-Aid. BioShock begins in with your character adrift in the North Atlantic after a plane crash. We have only one way to swim through the flaming plane fuel: toward a lighthouse towering above the whitecaps.
Inside we find a bathysphere that carries us down to "a city where the artist would not be censored, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small," claims the narrator of the bathysphere's propaganda film that plays as the fathoms tick away. Buildings loom up from the abyssal gloom, connected by Habitrails of pressure-proof glass that span neon-lit boulevards patrolled by sonorous blue whales and other life aquatic.
This is the city of Rapture. It's a name with significance for the religious as well as for scuba divers, who worry that dallying too long at depth will bring on a drunken mental fog known as "rapture of the deep.
Something very bad has gone down in this dimly lit underwater town. The Art Deco decor--all streamlined industrial design and terrazzo floors and rich woods tinged with the functional contraptions of a Jules Veme submarine--has degenerated into moldering opulence.
Tables are overturned. Libraries have been ransacked. Blood stains walls. Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday croon from tinny speakers and gramophones. The sea is reclaiming this city, leaking through buckled bulkheads and pooling on cracked floors. You can't, say, take a plane to fly somewhere else. And we're nerdy enough to care how the city works. You'll find out how the city's powered, how they get their oxygen--and it all factors into the gameplay. Not far into Rapture's first area, however, we reach a point of no return.
Walking through one of the glass tunnels that connect the city's structures, we look up to see the airplane tail section tumbling through the cobalt murk. It collides with the tunnel. Millions of gallons of seawater pour through the shattered glass.
Wading through frigid H2O that looks too real Irrational has an artist working solely on water effects , we barely make it through the exit hatch at the end of the tunnel. We're cut off. We can't go back. Our only choice is to head deeper into Rapture. These eyes-on-high-beam, pressure-suited monstrosities have become iconic of BioShock and are a linchpin of its labyrinthine plot--and not just because you're supposed to seek out and take down three in each section of Rapture.
Each Big Daddy protects one of the Little Sisters, gaunt 8-year-old girls who pop out of hatches to scour areas for corpses. The girls aren't what they seem. They've been genetically engineered by one of Rapture's residents to drink the blood of the dead and convert it to Adam, stem-cell goo that fuels all superpowers in Rapture.
You want Adam; acquiring it is at the heart of your character-customization options. But here's the tricky part: Once you take down a Big Daddy no small feat, which we detail on page 75 , you can opt to either "save" the Little Sister and get a wee bit of Adam or "harvest" her and get the maximum amount. What happens when you harvest her? Well, you figure it out. Your hand pulls the whimpering girl offscreen, you hear some squishy noises, and when your fist reappears it's holding organic material and the Little Sister is gone.
Seeing this, it's easy to imagine backlash from the mainstream media, maybe a Fox News story about a new game that lets you kill little girls--never mind that the Little Sisters aren't exactly human. Levine says it's a risk he's willing to take to create a compelling experience.
There's a reason you don't see it actually happening onscreen. You can't shoot the little girls. You can't hurt them in any way, except in that moment when you're given the choice to harvest them. Don't assume that choosing to harvest the Little Sisters rather than save them sends you down some irreversible path in BioShock. Much of the game's rich story which we've left vague to avoid spoiling has you tom between two characters, Atlas and Tenenbaum, who harass you regularly on your radio.
Atlas' family is trapped in Rapture, and he wants you to harvest all the Adam you can find so you can soup up your powers and rescue them. Tenenbaum, on the other hand, is a former Nazi scientist who created the Little Sisters and wants you to save them. Tenenbaum, meanwhile, begs you to not hurt her children.
What we're trying to do is not have a white hat and a black hat, not have an angel and a devil, but have it be ambiguous, which is that much truer to life. Depending on what kind of hero you want to create, you can focus on saving all the Little Sisters or harvesting them, or mixing and matching. If all you care about is building the maximum roster of superpowers, harvest all the Little Sisters you find to get all their Adam.
Levine didn't want to spoil how saving Little Sisters instead of harvesting them affects your character, although we know you run into the girls later in the game. In BioShock's capitalistic character-development market, you spend Adam at special machines called Gatherers' Gardens to buy different plasmids, body modifications that grant powers.
You'll find plasmids that let you unleash telekinesis, fireballs, freeze rays, Splicer-stunning electrical jolts, and swarms of insects. Some plasmids turn enemies against each other really the safest way to take down Big Daddies. Others make them appear hostile to automated turrets and security cameras, which will send out flying robot drones armed with machine guns.
In addition to the plasmids, you'll find passive character-tweaking substances called gene tonics. These do everything from boosting health to granting semi-invisibility to causing more damage when you melee-attack Splicers from behind. Some increase your hacking skills--yet another subset of BioShock's seemingly limitless character abilities. Via a block-shifting minigame that feels straight from PopCap. BioShock even has its own invention mechanic that lets you build custom plasmids and pimp out your guns.
Each of the six weapon types has two customization slots, as well as a magazine for homebrew ammo. You can increase the rate of fire of your shotgun, for instance, or alter the grenade launcher so that its rounds don't damage you when you blast point-blank enemies. If all this talk of Adam and plasmids and gene tonics and hacking makes the prospect of character building in BioShock sound dizzying--especially since you must find specialized machines to tinker with every aspect of your hero--Levine is unapologetic.
But they give you things steadily, and we follow that model. That brings us back to where we started, taking stock of our powers, guns, and ammo to build a defensive perimeter against the encroaching Splicers. The only factor left to consider: the environment.
Rapture's world works just like your own. Water conducts electricity. Objects and substances that logically seem flammable--oil slicks, books, stuffed animals, enemies--will bum. It makes for anything-goes gameplay that has the BioShock quality-assurance testers inventing impromptu attack strategies daily. This is a shooter you play on your terms. You set up the ambush. You hack the security. You manipulate the A.
The theme again is that everything is a weapon. Far be it from us to tell you how to use these weapons. The Splicers are nearly done blowtorching through the door. This fight is all you. BioShock's adversaries, called Splicers, have lives of their own.
They wander Rapture, nosing around dead bodies, vending machines, and locked doors, looking for life-giving Adam more on that later. They'll also react to the sounds you make--you'll need to be stealthy if you're not ready for a fight. And they start in different places each time you play, making it hard to get the jump on them if you retry an area. Competing for limited resources in what Levine calls BioShock's "A. But their smarts extend to combat.
They can see what kind of weapon you have and will egg you into a melee if you're not packing heat. Splicers understand their environment and will seek cover when the shooting starts. But the scariest part of all: They'll make a dash for the nearest medical station when their health runs low.
It makes for bittersweet relief if you're on the losing end of a fight. On the one hand, it's nice get a breather while the enemy runs off to lick his wounds. On the other, you know the Splicer is just going to return--and with full health, no less--unless you managed to hack into and booby-trap the medical station. With atmospheric visuals on par with Gears of War BioShock uses a modified version of that game's graphics engine and a sea of character-customization options and gameplay strategies, Irrational's underwater adventure certainly astounds on paper.
But all the nifty powers and Einstein A. Fortunately, the developers designed this game to be a first-person shooter, er, first. Consequently, BioShock is on target with the things you'd expect. Head shots do significantly more damage. The garaged-together guns have a satisfyingly heavy feel when you fire them.
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