The Epic Choosing of BioShock
Well, see, BioShock’s stats seemed strong against those of Game Selection Paper, so I pulled out its pokéball and…
No really.
I am going to be playing BioShock all semester and blogging about my progress. It’s an FPS set in an alternate history, where (when?) an underwater utopian society was built somewhere below the ocean. Your character crashes into the sea and finds his way down to the compound (the city of Rapture), to find that something went wrong. You spend the game figuring out what happened and how to get the heck out while fending off mutants and crazy scary mechanical defense systems.
I figured this would be a great game for this assignment because friends and reviews assured me that it has replay value (in case I finish it before the semester’s out), and these two sources also confirmed that I could expect to encounter such learning opportunities as decision making that would affect the game’s outcome, moral decisions, puzzle/problem solving, and detective work on the story of Rapture’s decline (downfall?).
I just got the game and the console I will be playing it on yesterday, and I’m excited to get started playing and comparing it to all the readings we’ll be doing. Woop woop.
