Bioshock (Not SS3) Announced [Oct 08, 2004, 7:05 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The
BioShock First Look/Exclusive First Impressions on GameSpot has the promised
announcement of the new project from Irrational Games, and though it is not the
System Shock 3 announcement that had been anticipated, the game is described by
Irrational's Ken Levine as the "spiritual successor" to System Shock 2. They
offer first impressions of the game, said to be in development for three years
now, as well as a video Q&A about the game with Ken that can streamed for free.
Here's a bit from the preview:
BioShock takes place in a mysterious genetic laboratory. Other than that the complex is strewn with corpses (also for reasons unknown), nothing is clear to you. From what you can tell, the laboratory complex is apparently a holdover from World War II--you'll see remnants of the war as well as peeling paint throughout the complex. Something apparently happened back then that caused the complex to be abandoned by whoever was using it. In fact, the complex has only recently come back into use by the scientists circa the early 21st century, and advanced, top-secret contraptions used for arcane biotechnology experiments have been hastily bolted into the rotting walls of the complex.
You'll explore the complex from a first-person perspective, similar to System Shock 2 or Deus Ex, and you'll find it inhabited by three primary "castes" of creatures, which Irrational is currently referring to as "drones," "predators," and "soldiers"--creatures that might once have been human. We were shown a few concept images of creatures that were part human, part monster. Exactly how these creatures came to be this way isn't clear, but Irrational has suggested that some of them are actually fused with human anatomy: human lungs are grafted onto their bodies to breathe, and the human arm dangling off to the side can still hold and fire a gun.
After reading the whole article...
The lab itself WAS a WWII lab; though I don't think they specified it was an old Nazis lab. After all, the US might have been up to super-soldier stuff too.
But they say it's been occupied by modern-day (or slightly future) scientists. They've reactivated it and started doing experiments.
So, maybe the real weirdness is the current scientists' fault. Maybe they were building off the work the place was originally used for. Maybe it's something completely different. I don't think it was that specific.
It sounds interesting, but I miss Shodan. That voice was awesome. I'd love a voice synth that sounded like that, with the random stuttering. I'd use it to make ALL of my system sounds.
The concept drawings have German writing on the walls, so I'd guess it would be German.
Y'know, if it's set in the near future, they could shove in an insane machine running the place (possible more likely a hive mind type thing)... the first look inidcates the design is somewhat a fusion between biological, rotting WW2 and shiney near-future tech.
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