Bioshock

I haven't been posting much lately, but that'll be rectified soon. I'm in the process of moving, and I'll tell ya... it ain't fun.

But while I've been busy with all that sort of stuff, I did get a chance to play a new game that came out. Bioshock.



So what's so special about this game? Well, the game starts out with you, in a plane, crashing into the ocean. You survive the crash, and you end up near a lighthouse with an elevator that takes you to the bottom of the sea to a city called Rapture.

The city was created in the 40s and 50s (the game takes place in the 60s) and it's heavily influenced by the writings of Ayn Rand but in a GOOD WAY. See, this society was created with the idea that man is above all and was founded on very objectivist viewpoints.

And happily, because I hate Ayn Rand, it's all gone to hell. The game has an underlying theme of what can happen to a society without regard for others. There's a distopian world to explore where vanity, power and greed have run it's course into destruction. I'm glad to see games move into more mature content as of late. I'd like to see a lot more of it. No, mature content isn't about blood and boobies, it's much more than that. If anything, most "mature" content video games aren't even "mature" material. They're actually rather sophomoric.

But yeah... this game's got a lot of blood in it, too... and that's not always a bad thing.