[PS3] BioShock ROM Download

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BioShock ROM Description

This is Bioshock on PlayStation 3, and it is unquestionably one of the best and most memorable video games of the past decade. Bioshock is one of the finest achievements in gaming history. After all, it’s uncommon to find a game so fascinating and well-designed that, despite having a cast of people as engaging as Andrew Ryan and Sander Cohen, the game’s environment may be the most intriguing and unforgettable.

Setting and Story

Bioshock is set in the halls of Rapture, a gigantic metropolis secretly created on the Atlantic floor by businessman and political philosopher Andrew Ryan. You see, the world was changing in the 1930s and 1940s, which enraged the idealistic Ryan, who saw people with low incomes as parasites and America’s New Deal as a social poison. Ryan, disgusted by what he called the Soviet communists’ irrationality and parasitic American policy moves, took another path.

He chose the impossible. He chose Rapture.

Ryan’s city is the major attraction of Bioshock, and the concept underlying its development is just as interesting as the town itself. This metropolis, this group of free-thinking individuals who prioritize individual rights over those of the leeching collective, is remarkably similar to the Randian principles that drive works like Atlas Shrugged.

In reality, the impact of Ayn Rand on Bioshock is possibly more evident than the premise implies. Rand, Andrew Ryan, Atlas Shrugged, the revolt leader in Rapture, is named Atlas. There is certainly a link between these two ideas, and Ayn Rand’s books undoubtedly influenced the development of Bioshock.

As Ryan boldly stated, Rapture was a world where artists would not be afraid of the censor, petty morals would not limit scientists, and the mighty would not be restricted by the tiny. Little did Ryan realize that the great would inevitably ruin themselves.

We find Rapture in 1960, over a decade after it was completed. We play as a man named Jack and are trapped in Ryan’s world after our plane crashes into the water. We swim to a neighboring lighthouse to avoid the chilly waves of the northern Atlantic, where we discover a mystery gate behind which a gigantic bronze figure hangs from the wall, bearing a banner that says, “No gods or kings, only man.” Bioshock opens with a bizarre underwater elevator known as a bathysphere.

Visuals and Audio

You are forced to be in Rapture from the time you arrive. It’s easier to talk about Bioshock by mentioning its intense plot and setting, two characteristics you would not identify with in the traditionally action-oriented first-person shooter genre. But Bioshock is very different: this is a story and character-driven shooter, an FPS with much more to say than “aim for the head.”

Rapture is not just philosophically deep but also visually appealing. Rapture is one of the most memorable locales I have ever encountered in a video game. Looking at its reality-based aesthetics and design, typical of living seventy years ago, it’s like entering a time capsule in a world that appears just as fictitious as Rapture itself. The music and the 1920s Art Deco style all work together to create a city that is intriguing to explore and always provides a memorable environment.

The game is gorgeous from a technical and art design standpoint, and you truly feel as if you’re wandering through its wet, gloomy corridors.

Gameplay

Of course, in Bioshock, while enjoying the grandeur of those passageways, you must also live in them. And you’ll do so in Bioshock using an intense two-pronged combat system. You may use genetically modified plasmids to wield superpower-like powers like flinging fire and electricity with your bare hands, which contributed significantly to Rapture’s demise.

Furthermore, you may combine the effects of these plasmids with those of regular FPS weaponry, such as handguns and shotguns, for a more robust and destructive impact. You may electrocute an adversary and hit them on the head with a wrench, for example, or set them on fire and fill them with lead. Experimenting with different plasmid and weapon combinations is a lot of fun, and it’s easy to handle.

Conclusions

I’m playing the PS3 version, which was published a year after the game launched on the Xbox 360 and PC, so if you’re wondering which version to buy, you should know that the PS3 version has advantages over the 360. It features a few new options and usually more explicit graphics, making it look more excellent. And because Rapture is such a hauntingly gorgeous area, that is undoubtedly an advantage to consider.

There’s so much to Bioshock that I could spend an hour debating its moral and political theories, not to mention its fantastic gameplay and excellent audio and visual design. But, indeed, Rapture is a place you must explore for yourself. Now, please get off your computer; it’s time to enter the nearest bathysphere and go 20,000 miles beneath the sea in Bioshock!