**The one and only Official BioShock Thread**- now with added **SPOILERS**

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With the game out in just over 3 week's and to consolidate all the recent media that has churned out for this game into one place it's time for another Official thread to grace these parts. Hopefully this will be popular as my S.T.A.L.K.E.R thread has been!

Recent Trailers (Within the last month):

Plasmid Trailer:

http://www.gamespot.com/video/924919/6175762/bioshock-official-movie-9

E3 2007 Stage Demo Footage (20+ Minutes long):

http://uk.gamespot.com/video/924919/6175068/bioshock-stage-demo

Official System Requirements:

Operating Systems:
Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) or
Windows Vista


Minimum System Requirements:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single Core processor

System RAM: 1GB

Video Card: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).

Sound Card: 100% direct X 9.0c compatible sound card

Hard disc space: 8GB free space


Recommended System Requirements:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo processor

System RAM: 2GB

Video card:
DX9: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better)
DX10: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better

Sound Card: Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series (Optimized for use with Creative Labs EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0 or EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 compatible sound cards)

Important Note: Game requires Internet connection for activation


Links:

BioShock Official Forums

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19

The Cult of Rapture (BioShock minisite)

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/home.html


Various Fansites:

BioShock Online -- www.bioshock-online.com

Project BioShock -- www.projectbioshock.com

Wrath of Rapture -- http://rapture.planets.gamespy.com/

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/downloads.html


Retail Version boxshots:

Normal Edition

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Collector's Edition

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The BioShock Collector's Edition is available for PC and Xbox 360 and contains the game in a limited edition embossed steel case, a Making Of DVD, Soundtrack CD, hand finished resin figurine (14cm height).
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Aekeron said:
Ugh. It's a sad day today - one of the few games to excite me in the past couple of years has been sullied with one of these silly "official" threads.
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What's the problem? :confused: . It keep's all discussion into one thread and it's not like I have made a crap thread I've provided all the information people will want to know aswell as helping a few people know more about the game just from posting this. There is always one :rolleyes: , my S.T.A.L.K.E.R thread was one of the most popular threads in PC Games of all time :) .
 
SpudMaster said:
how much have people been able to find the collectors edition for? so far seen it for £39.99 and normal version around £25. Though not looked too hard just yet
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I paid 34.99 for mine but I did have a £5 voucher with said company.
 
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gord said:
Edit: Well, finished reading that review.. and frankly.. i really cant wait. Havnt been excited about a game like this for a while, and that its due out in under a month is great, rather than waiting years. Irrational should be laughing all the way to the bank, thats a stonking review and even though i pre-ordered on a whim earlier due to my new computer coming soon, i would definitely be ordering now.
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Q.F.T. It's going to be absoloutly superb.
 
Few snips from the review

The HUD on the PC is virtually identical in appearance to the one on the 360, except for how weapon selection is handled. Not really a surprise. (Notice I said HUD, not the vending machine UIs which we've already seen.)

The harvesting process for the Little Sister has been toned down in the final version, from earlier versions of the game. The reviewer states that he feels the "choice" you have to make has now become rather anti-climactic.

The reviewer mentions that the game was "dazzlingly beautiful and hitchlessly smooth" on an Athlon X2 5200, single 8800GTS, at 1600x900 in DX9 running at max settings.
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http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/leve...nking-the-academy-ken-levine-on-bioshock.aspx

From this article they state that the game has also gone Gold. Can I get a Yeeeehaww :D :p

After the results of the Game Critics Awards were announced last week, we reached out to several winners for their reactions and some updates about their games in progress. The winner of Best Action/Adventure Game was BioShock from Irrational Games. We emailed some questions to Ken Levine, co-founder of Irrational Games. Here's what he wrote back:

What was your reaction to winning Best Action/Adventure game?
We've always won a ton of E3 awards for BioShock from the press, but we never picked up a judges' award before. So it was really gratifying.

BioShock has already gone gold. How have you celebrated this milestone in the past, and how did you celebrate this milestone for BioShock?

We just had a team party in Boston, and then we have a event on the launch night on August 20th, which we’re inviting lots of people to, including members of the BioShock fan community. I'm actually looking forward to that, because launches are usually such abstract things. You wake up launch morning and it’s like, "Hey, our game has, umm, shipped to retail!" It’s not exactly like headlining at Madison Square Garden.

With BioShock already getting great reviews, and Harmonix's Rock Band receiving early accolades, 2007 looks like a breakout year for the Boston game development scene. Is there anything that distinguishes game development in Boston from that in other cities, and how much is the departed Looking Glass Studios responsible for laying the foundation for what we see today.

I think LG had a LOT to do with it. Greg LoPiccolo was one of the key guys on Guitar Hero and Rock Band, along with lots of other former LG people. Irrational is just crawling with former LG people. Hell. I wouldn't be in Boston (or maybe the games industry at all) if LG didn't hire me and move me up here. It is strange to think that two of the biggest games of the year are Boston bred.
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Jihad said:
Oh yeah the video was well good! I felt sorry for the Little Sister slowly backing away from that Splicer aiming a wrench at her face. :(

Edit: Anyone else think the graphics seem better on some of that new footage?
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They seem really polished yea, I love it when the Big Daddy's give the splicers a nudge, sends them flying like ragdolls and landing like a sack of ****. :D
 
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