BioShock
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…
BioShock is an adventure developed by 2K Australia, released 21 August 2007 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 15.9 hrs to finish.
What BioShock is
BioShock is an adventure game developed by 2K Australia and released in 2007. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Havok.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Bioshock series
BioShock is the first of 23 entries we hold in the Bioshock series. The next entry was BioShock: Limited Edition in 2007. Its critic score of 93 is 10 points above the series average of 83. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
BioShock holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 29 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 90, across 3,237 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 24.5 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel single-core Pentium 4 processor at 2.4GHz, 1 GB of RAM and 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). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Brazil is the cheapest region we track at R$7.49 (about $1.49), while Germany pays €4.99 — 3.7 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 4 on Steam, which is about $3.74.
What it launched against
BioShock launched on 21 August 2007, within three weeks of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Rome: Total War - Collection, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Rome: Total War - Collection, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for BioShock yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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