BioShock series. Video Games With the Best Stories
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The Witcher 3 and the BioShock series received the same number of votes.
INFORMATION
- Genre: FPS
- What's good beyond the plot: an incredible world creation and solid shooting mechanics
Eight years after the premiere of the classic cyberpunk game System Shock 2, Ken Levine launched a game he described as its spiritual successor. However, BioShock quickly proved to be much more than just an attempt to replicate the success of the previous game – the title did not rip off elements from the original, but using them for inspiration, significantly expanded them and moved the action to a completely different world.
In the first and second instalments of the series, we find ourselves in a deep-water metropolis called Rapture, built by the world's greatest minds, intended to become a hidden utopia, but ultimately collapsing under the influence of human vices and plunging into chaos. BioShock Infinite, in turn, enables us to explore Columbia – a flying city, intended to be an oasis of peace, that ends up transformed into a flying fortress.
It's hard to pinpoint one particular element that makes BioShock games shine – rather, it's the synergy of many well-made smaller components. Fantastically creation of cities draws us in and encourages to learn their secrets, the main themes can develop in a unique way and lead to surprising twists (Would you kindly... if you know what I mean), the devs are not afraid to ask philosophical questions about the nature of Man, which encourage us to pause and think about the condition of our society.
