Would you kindly?

Why is it that civilized humanity

Can make the world so wrong ?
In this hurly-burly of insanity
Our dreams cannot last long.

Have any of you ever played Bioshock?

It's an awesome game that I've recently re-discovered after about a year. It's better than any other game that I know. Sure, theres violence and its a little bloodthirsty, but its backed up with so much brilliant storyline and wonderful art-deco design that it doesn't feel as mindless as others.

I'm gonna devote this blog as a tribute to it's brilliance; if you've ever played it, you might identify. If you've never played/heard of it, this will make fuck all sense but you might still get that feeling of wonderment that you do when you play. This is what the game is like in summary.

1. Witness the city of Rapture for the first time after you crash land in the ocean. Re-attach your jaw.


2. Listen to unnerving audio and creepy visuals, interspersed with the dulcet tones of a friendly Irishman.


3. Stab yourself with a syringe you find in a machine. Get special powers. Try and work out which part of the message 'just stay calm' insists that you hurl yourself off a balcony.

4. Explore the city more. Kill some splicers, ugly druggie bastards. Fight men in giant diving suits with drills. Injure small children. Snap your fingers to set everything on fire.


5. Hate the game for its frequent reliance on terrifying shock tactics, but at the same time love the game for said reliance because it's used so well.


6. Would you kindly note the exceptional plot twist. Re-attach jaw for second time.


7. Feel pangs of disappointment that the final boss is a fucking pushover and can be defeated with a sneeze and virtually no skill or perseverance.


8. Enjoy one of THREE POSSIBLE ENDINGS! AAAAGH!


9. Feel either thoroughly uplifted, slightly guilty, or utterly depressed depending on which ending you got.


In short, it's a beautiful and awe-inspiring game set in a post-war objectivist Utopia, with the underlying message that if man is given license to pursue his passions and individual goals in a laissez-faire environment, he will ultimately consume himself! Irrespective of egalitarian principles, free market competition will lead to a strict societal hierarchy! The Ryandian objectivism's failure to understand basic human nature will always, fatally, be its downfall!

Lets see Call of Duty work THAT shit into the next modern warfare.

All that, plus you shoot stuff.

And thats all I have for you. Forgive me for my nerdy spells, would you kindly?