BioShock (Series)

BioShock Series: Retro-Futuristic First-Person Shooter Games

The BioShock series is a collection of story-driven first-person shooter games developed by Irrational Games and 2K Games. Set in fictional dystopian settings, the games feature retro-futuristic art deco environments and integrate weapons and special powers into their gameplay. The series examines philosophical and social themes including objectivism, free will, and moral choice through its narrative and character interactions.

What is BioShock (Series)?

The BioShock series is a critically-acclaimed collection of story-driven first-person shooter video games. Developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games, the BioShock games are set in fictional dystopian settings and feature retro-futuristic art deco environments.

The first BioShock game was released in 2007 and set in the fictional underwater city of Rapture in 1960. Using plasmids and weapons, the player navigates Rapture's survivors and hostile genetically modified inhabitants in an unraveling objectivist society. BioShock examines themes of objectivism, free will, and moral choice through its narrative. The game received wide critical acclaim for its morality-based storyline, immersive environments, and hybrid action RPG-inspired gameplay.

BioShock 2, released in 2010, also takes place in Rapture ten years after the events of the first game prior to the city's collapse. The player controls a Big Daddy whose mission is to rescue his former Little Sister. BioShock 2 expands on many of the gameplay concepts of the original as well as its moral complexity.

2013's BioShock Infinite shifts to the floating air city of Columbia in 1912. As private investigator Booker DeWitt, the player must rescue Elizabeth who has been held captive in Columbia since childhood. Infinite expands on the exploration and combat of previous titles with new weapons and methods of travel as well as ambitiously tackling quantum mechanics concepts. The game received universal acclaim for its original setting, characters, and emphasis on narratives with emotive themes.

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