Genres
Shooter, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360Developer
2K BostonRelease date
August 21, 2007Official links
Game overview
About the Game
BioShock is a horror-themed first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. The player is urged to turn everything into a weapon: biologically modifying their own body with Plasmids, hacking devices and systems, upgrading their weapons, crafting new ammo variants, and experimenting with different battle techniques are all possible. The game is described by the developers as a spiritual successor to their previous PC title System Shock 2. BioShock received high praise in critical reviews for its atmospheric audio and visual quality, absorbing and original plot and its unique gaming experience.
Storyline
In the year 1960, a plane crashes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a man named Jack as the only survivor. He has the apparent luck of resurfacing in front of what looks like a door to an underwater complex. Without hesitating, Jack enters the door and is greeted by slogans that praise the city of Rapture, a paradise of free will built in the 1940s by a business magnate named Andrew Ryan. However, even before he assimilates all this new information, the descent to this supposed paradise ends and he can only see ruins and chaos. Learning about the destiny of Rapture will be now Jack's main motivation while he tries to survive the horrors that free can create.
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Featured video
Gameplay Trailer
PC requirements
System Requirements
Entry specification
Minimum
- Operating System
- Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista
- CPU
- Intel single-core Pentium 4 processor at 2.4GHz
- RAM
- 1 GB
- Video Card
- Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM and Pixel Shader 3.0 (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550)
- Sound Card
- 100% direct X 9.0c compatible sound card
- Hard Drive Space
- 8GB
- Game requires Internet connection for activation
Smoother 1080p play
Recommended
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor
- RAM
- 2GB
- Video Card
- DX 9 - Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB RAM and Pixel Shader 3.0 (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better), DX 10 - NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better
- Sound Card
- SoundBlaster(r) X-Fi(tm) series (optimized foruse with Creative Labs EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0 or EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 compatible sound cards)
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