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The game begins
Bioshock is set in
Levine states "The focus is to create a world that we draw the player into as deeply as possible, even deeper than in System Shock 2".
As there was no conventional weaponry in Rapture, its inhabitants had to improvise and cobble them together with household items such as tomato tins, model airplane engines and office chairs. All weapons are modifiable, and Levine says "the weapons system alone is more complex and deeper than in any other FPS."
The most common enemy are
Levine says he intends this to add to the real moral choices within the game. As the game progresses you get to learn the story of the Gatherers and how they have been exploited.
The skill system is similar to SS2, with abilities, 'plasmids', purchasable using Adam at plasmid stations around Rapture. Once these abilities are installed, they cannot be changed until you reach another plasmid station. Abilities can affect strength, agility, etc., or even the AI, turning Aggressors to your side and fighting other enemies.
The AI is important, says Levine.
It is intended to be a world where there's an active ecology, each character and enemy having their own motivations and behaviours, and interacting with each other and the player. The player will be able to interact with and impact this ecology, affecting it in planned and unplanned ways. Unlike SS2, the world and areas are open-ended, and the gameplay much more emergent.
Using a 'heavily modified' Unreal Engine 3, the screenshots look very promising. Huge creatures, variously clad in old-fashioned divesuits and mechanical apparatus, tower menacingly above the player. A tiny, shoeless Gatherer in a pink dress is seen running away through a garden-like area covered in foliage. The intact city is elegant art-deco, clad in wood with exposed metalwork and detailed furnishings. Streets are lined with bright, retro-styled neon signage. In SS2 style, 'Gene Traitor' has been scrawled in blood on the wall of an extravagant bathroom, now flooded.