I'd sort of been semi-following this game for a couple months after having read about its awesome E3 exhibition, but after the X06 demo and the big daddy trailers, I was hooked. I preordered the limited edition (which comes with the soundtrack, a making of dvd, and a big daddy figurine), and picked it up the day it came out.
For those of you who don't know and are interested, the basic (ha) backstory of Bioshock is thus (no spoilers):
Following the Great Depression, an industrialist named Andrew Ryan decided to create a capitalist utopia, a place where like-minded people could go to escape what he saw as the increasingly socialist american governmant policy. He built an underwater city, which he called Rapture. The place was home to thousands of people: musicians, actors, scientists, doctors, models, philosophers, politicians, and other industrialists called Rapture home. In explaining his choice to build the city on the ocean floor, he said "It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the ocean. It was impossible not to build Rapture at the bottom of the ocean." In the late fifties, however, there was a scientific breakthrough. A type of sea slug was discovered that exuded almost pure stem cells. A man named Fontaine invested in it early, and developed a monopoly on the substance, which came to be known as Adam. Using these stem cells, it became possible to alter the human body in amazing ways, curing diseases, healing the crippled, and, as was soon discovered, create weapons. On new years eve of 1959, escalating tensions in Rapture flooded over, and the city, once an imagined 'capitalist utopia', became a nightmare: a city at the bottom of the sea, leaking and falling quickly into disrepair. Very quickly, the transportation system into and out of Rapture, a series of bathyspheres, was shut down, stranding every inhabitant inside a claustrophobic prison.
Basically.
anyway, if anybody is still curious about the game there's a lot more to be said about it, and that information is easily found on wikipedia or the official bioshock website.
I was wondering if anyone else had played the game here. It's been receiving near perfect scores in magazines, and I am here to attest that it's extremely fun, and one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had playing a game since Half-Life 2
