SFG writes: Have you ever played a game or watched a movie where the opening scenes grab you and didn't let go? BioShock 2 did that for me. I was hooked right from the get go. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who has yet to play it, but rest assured that this opening really sets the pace for what Rapture has in store for the player.
Players may remember in BioShock, Rapture was a city dedicated to the individual. The best way for me to describe it is a city that was run from the Far, Far Right of the political aisle. Flash forward to BioShock 2 and the city is now run from the Far, Far Left. Showing that if ever there was a city in need of some sort of political balance, Rapture is surly the place.
BioShock is one of the most surprising games of this generation. First of all, it isn’t inspired by a real-life conflict, a film or another game series, but a moderately successful novel called Atlus Shrugged by Ayn Rand, which put forward a philosophy called Objectivism, or ‘rational selfishness’.
BioShock’s writer and Creative Director, Ken Levine, and his team are now working on BioShock Infinite, a departure from the dark, dystopian corridors of Rapture into the bright skies of Columbia, a floating city named after the female personification of the United States of America. The PS Blog recently had the chance to sit down with Ken to talk about the philosophies that underpinned the original BioShock and how, if at all, these are being applied to BioShock Infinite.
These days, truly great game idea are quite hard to come by. With all of the sequels, HD remakes, and general gaming bullshit that has come out lately, we really have to wade through these titles, and find the games that are actually good. After we cut through all the sludge and grime, we come upon games that have these really good ideas that we have been searching for all this time. The only problem is that when we find these games, they dont always live up to what they could have. There are three games in specific that fit the description of games that had great idea, but relatively bad execution.
A rather unique take on five games you may have missed when they were new. Well, they’re cheap now, and they’re still awesome
