

On entering Rapture, however, the player finds themselves immersed in the fragments of Ryan's broken dream the city is falling apart and overrun with biologically enhanced Monsters.


This metropolis, an apparent response to Plato's Atlantis, was built by the charismatic ideologue Andrew Ryan in 1946 as a sanctuary for followers of Ayn Rand's anarcho-conservative Objectivist philosophy, allowing them to secede from a world that denied them absolute freedom. After swimming to a nearby island, the player can discover a bathysphere and descend to the secret underwater city of Rapture. The game begins with the player character, Jack, in the middle of the Atlantic in 1960, having survived an airplane crash. Platforms: XB360, Win ( 2007) PS3 ( 2008) Mac ( 2009).īioShock is a First Person Shooter, much influenced by System Shock 2 ( 1999) (see System Shock).
