BioShock series. Video Games With the Best Stories

• Video Games With the Best Stories
• Silent Hill 2
• Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic
• Life is Strange
• Planescape Torment
• Final Fantasy VII
• Deus Ex series
• Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
• NieR: Automata
• Red Dead Redemption II
• The Last of Us
• Mass Effect Trilogy
• BioShock series
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Pathologic 2
• The Last of Us: Part II

BioShock series

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.

1. More about BioShock
2. More about BioShock 2
3. More about BioShock: Infinite