Difference between revisions of "Bioshock"

Alcoholic beverages are scattered around Rapture, are mentioned, and you can drink them. The game has a “drunk” effect when you drink a couple, which is a dizzy filter and hiccuping sounds from the protagonist. You are not required to drink them.

The player must visit several places that revolve around alcohol and have more alcoholic beverages scattered around than usual. These are:

• A bar
• A wine cellar and distillery
• A cocktail lounge
• A strip club

Dead cats can be found around Rapture, when looked at each has a name. There also is a audio log where a child is commanded to snap a puppy’s neck. The death of the dog is graphically heard. This can be avoided by not picking up and listening to the Mind Control Test audio diary in the Rapture Control Room.

Dead cats can be found around Rapture, when looked at each has a name.

There is an audio log where a child is commanded to snap a puppy’s neck. The death of the dog is graphically heard. This can be avoided by not picking up and listening to the Mind Control Test audio diary in the Rapture Control Room.

The game takes place in an underwater city. The city is under constant threat of breaking, and there are leaks throughout the game where the player can see water coming through. There is also one sequence where debris falls into the room and water starts pouring in. No area ever completely fills with water.

Gender-based slurs are used throughout the game.

Race-based slurs are used throughout the game in audio diaries. These include African American, Chinese, and gay slurs.

Blood is ever-present throughout game environments.

Blood is an unavoidable part of combat. It is produced by hitting enemies and the Player Character being hit.

The main enemies of the game are horrifically malformed. They usually large tumors all over their bodies. Some may have certain parts of their bodies twisted unnaturally.

When the Player Character uses plasmids their hand will mutate. The type of mutation depends on the type of plasmid. The mutation for the Insect Swarm plasmid is particularly graphic.

The first time the Player Character uses a plasmid there is a graphic scene of them reacting badly to it.

There is a cutscene in Andrew Ryan's office where the Player Character brutally beats a man to death. The wounds are graphically shown.

There is a whale skeleton in a museum near the ending of the game. No human skeletons or bones appear.

It is revealed that Big Daddies were once human but are brainwashed to only take care of Little Sisters and the city.

Little Sisters are brainwashed to fear everyone but Big Daddies, and to collect and consume ADAM from dead bodies.

Little Sisters will eat the blood they harvest from dead bodies. This sequence is shown during the Little Sister escort quest, however the player can choose to turn away and not watch.

The Player Character crawls through small vents multiple times.

Throughout the entire game the Player Character is trapped in an underwater city. The city feels large but there are glass ceilings and areas that the player can see the sea out of.

The Player Character is required to use small, round submarines called Bathyspears. The Player Character is sealed in these multiple times during cutscenes.

The general items vending machine is a clown that loudly says “THE CIRCUS OF VALUES!” when ever you go near it. This is accompanied by tinny circus music. The clown is mechanical and does not move.

The game is dimly lit and there are some areas where the lights will flicker so that it is completely black. Enemies can come out of the shadows to attack.

There is a particularly dark scene in the Heat Loss Monitoring area where the lights go out and the Player Character can hear enemies running around them.

There are dead bodies littered throughout the game. The main way the player gets health, bullets, etc. is by looting bodies.

Killed enemies' bodies do not disappear.

In Andrew Ryan's office there are dead bodies hung up like trophies.

In Apollo Square there are dead bodies hanging from nooses.

One character’s entire family dies in a explosion after you have been working to reunite them. It is revealed later in the game that this is a lie.

The Player Character's father is murdered in-game.

Though the Big Daddies are not friends of the Player Character, the Little Sisters that they protect consider them friends. The Little Sisters will cry and grieve if the Player Character kills a Big Daddy. The player can choose to let the Big Daddies live by not attacking them, but this restricts the amount of upgrade points available and thus makes the game harder.

Late in the game the Player Character is treated like a tool and has their autonomy destroyed.

In Andrew Ryan's office there are dead bodies hung up on the walls like trophies.

There is an audio log of a terrorist attack. This can be avoided by not picking up and listening to the audio diary of "New Year's Eve Alone" in the Medical Pavilion.

The game begins with the Player Character struggling in the aftermath of a plane crash. The crash itself is not shown but screams and a plane crash sound is heard over a black screen.

It is revealed in the game that the Player Character hijacked a plane and forced it to crash.

There is a illness called “ADAM Sickness” which all the antagonists have. It causes tumors and deformation on the body, and causes you to go insane. It is discussed throughout the game.

It is revealed in the game that the Player Character's family was unkind to them because they were a sleeper agent and thus not considered a real child.

The Little Sisters are children that are found throughout the game. They are dressed like small dolls and their initial appearance is that of an animate doll. They are required to be confronted during the game.

The game begins with the Player Character drowning. The Player Character does not die, but choking noises are heard and the screen blacks out a few times.

One of the plasmid powers the Player Character gains is the power to shoot electricity from their hand. This will electrocute enemies, and they will shake and have visible electricity on their body. This power is required to be used in the game. There are some enemies that can also use this power against the Player Character.

There are several areas throughout the game that are strung with electric wires the will electrocute the Player Character if they are touched. They are easily seen and can be destroyed with the electricity power.

The final boss fights with electricity.

The Player Character finds out that their entire life has been meaningless and they were merely a tool for the main antagonist. Since the Player Character is a silent protagonist, they do not react to this news.

Explosions are very common throughout the game, particularly doors exploding.

Multiple enemies will use explosives, particularly Molotov Cocktails, against the Player Character.

The player can pick up multiple explosives throughout the game to be used as weapons. These are not required to be used.

The Player Character is required to construct and use a bomb in the game.

The beginning of the game there are plane debris that are on fire all around.

Uncontrolled fires are common in most areas in the game. They are used to block paths.

Multiple enemies use fire to attack the Player Character.

The Player Character gains the Incinerate power that sets enemies and objects on fire. This is required to be used to access certain areas but is not required to be used in combat.

There are pools of oil on the ground in most areas that can be lit on fire. The fire will then burn out of control for a while before disappearing.

In the Rapture Records area it appears that there is a fire on the floor above you. Screams of possibly burning splicers can be heard.

The final boss uses fire to fight.

It is revealed that the Player Character had mind-control plasmids implanted in their body when they were very young. They were also implanted with growth plasmids.

Dr. Tennenbaum and Dr. Suchong are revealed to have forcibly implanted ADAM slugs in little girls.

There are unavoidable apparitions seen throughout the game. It is unclear whether they are ghosts or just a hallucination as a side-effect of the ADAM, but a loading screen calls them ghosts and they act like ghosts. They do not attack the Player Character.

Fighting enemies results in gore. All dead bodies appear brutally mauled.

In the Medical Bay area, Steinman graphically mutilates an unwilling patient.

There is a cutscene in Andrew Ryan's office where the Player Character brutally beats a man to death. The wounds are graphically shown.

The combat and cutscenes in this game are extremely graphic.

Guns are the main combat mechanic in the game. They are used both by the Player Character and enemies.

There are some areas that the Player Character must walk through that are high. The ground below can be seen and the Player Character can fall.

The first cutscene involves a plane falling out of the sky. The crash itself is not shown but screams and a plane crash sound is heard over a black screen.

The Insect Swarm plasmid caused bees to fly out of the Player Character's hand. This is not required to be picked up or used at all in game.

The Player Character must visit a beehive sanctuary in the Farmer's Market area. There are swarms of bees that will attack the Player Character. They can be temporarily pacified via a gas but they will wake up once the timer runs out and attack. The room and the room before it have loud buzzing noises.

A sense of tension is created in multiple areas when the lights shut off and enemies are heard, however when they come back on there are no enemies to be seen.

Enemies can jump out at the Player Characters around corners.

As the game progresses, enemies will start to pretend to be dead bodies. They will lie perfectly still and jump up and attack the Player Character when they are approached.

The player can find audio logs of a family whose child has been kidnapped. This can be avoided by not picking up and listening to the audio diaries "Masha Come Home" and "Saw Masha Today" in the Upper Wharf and Fighting McDonagh areas respectively.

Dr. Steinman is revealed to have force surgery on his patients to make them "perfect". There is a cutscene of him forcibly operating on a splicer.

There are audio diaries of Steinman talking about his malpractice. These can be avoided by not picking up and listening to most of the audio diaries in the Medical Pavilion.

Dr. Tennenbaum and Dr. Suchong are revealed to forcibly have planted mind-control plasmids in the Player Character. They are also revealed to have forcibly implanted ADAM slugs in little girls.

The Player Character is mind controlled via plasmids. It is revealed that he has been controlled the entire game. They manage to get rid of the mind control late in the game.

The splicers were once human and are still sentient, so killing them constitutes murder.

Splicers murder one another on screen throughout the game.

The Player Character is forced to kill several non-splicer humans in the game.

Some splicers and dead bodies appear mutilated.

In Andrew Ryan's office there are mutilated dead bodies hung up like trophies.

The plasmid replenishment animation is the Player Character violently stabbing a needle into their wrist. This will happen multiple times throughout the game.

Little Sisters use giant needles to extract ADAM from dead bodies. These needles are shown in detail several times in the game.

To defeat the final boss the Player Character must stab him with a Little Sister's needle. The death sequence for the boss is Little Sisters stabbing him multiple times with their needles.

Multiple character swear throughout the game.

It is revealed that the Player Character's mother sold them to someone else as a embryo. This can be avoided by not listening to the "Pregnancy" audio diary found in Eve's garden.

The Tea Room section functions similar to a psychological horror game, using shadow, enemy sounds, and music to create a sense of tension and paranoia.

The splicers are clearly traumatized both by the rotting and twisting of their bodies and by their complete addition to ADAM. All of them have been driven insane by this trauma.

The bullet buying stations have a racist caricature of a Mexican bandit.

There is an undertone of eugenics throughout the game.

The Player Character must enter a strip club. No women are seen.

Multiple audio diaries objectify women verbally.

The Player Character is revealed to have been mind-controlled into being the antagonist's slave. They are used by the antagonist as a tool to capture Rapture.

It is revealed that ADAM is highly addictive. All splicers are suffering due to their addiction to ADAM and throughout the game are desperately trying to get more.

A character commands the Player Character to kill him. He uses the Player Character's mind control to die by the Player Character's hand.

It is revealed that the Player Character's past was not real and that the choices the Player Character made were not choices, but orders. The entire game up to the point of this revelation is, essentially, a lie.

The beginning of the game involves getting into a bathysphere (a small submarine) that appears to malfunction when the Player Character reaches the bottom of the ocean. The bathysphere that a character's family was in is destroyed on screen, killing the people inside. It is later revealed that the bathysphere was empty.

Enemies and antagonists will verbally abuse the Player Character throughout the entire game. They call the Player Character a parasite, useless, worthless, etc.

The player can choose to murder Little Sisters, genetically altered little girls, via “harvesting” their Adam. They will cower and cry when the Player Character gets near them and struggle when picked up. Their death is not shown on screen. The player can choose to “rescue “ them instead.

If the player chooses to harvest one Little Sister, the game will end with the Player Character murdering all the Little Sisters.

There is a Little Sister escort quest towards the end of the game where the Little Sister can be harmed and die.

Weapons are ever-present throughout the game. They are used by the Player Character and enemies.