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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.
Select Install Instructions to see which packages are available for download, and make note of the one that you need. Select the appropriate language from the drop-down list, and then select Download. Select the packages you need to install, select Next , and then follow the instructions to install SP1. Your PC might restart a few times during the installation. Select the link in the table that corresponds with the version of Windows running on your PC.
On the Microsoft Download Center page, select your language and then select Download. It might take a few minutes for the tool to download and install. To install the tool immediately, select Open or Run and then follow the instructions. To use the tool later, select Save and download the installation files to your PC.
On the Installation complete screen, select Close. In the search box, enter troubleshooter and then select Troubleshooting from the list of results. Under System and Security , select Fix problems with Windows Update and then follow the instructions.
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