Bioshock: The Movie

Reports are coming in that Take-Two's award winning Bioshock is being made into a movie. (see Scifi and PCWorld)

I think that this is fantastic. Bioshock was the last PC game I played all the way through to the end before picking up my Wii. When I started playing the game, I enjoyed the game play, exploring the world that was Rapture and figuring out the mechanics that allowed me to progress from level to level. Once I had mastered the different mechanics, the game decreased in its challenge level. But the story! The Story kept me coming back with its turns and tricks and revelations.

The game of Bioshock takes place in an underworld city called Rapture shortly after World War II. The city is governed by an anything goes form of capitalism that goes horribly wrong as genetic experimentation and exploitation disrupt society until it collapses into its own disregard for humanity. Your character finds himself marooned in the city, needing to find a way out of the chaos. This story should port well to the screen though I fear a change in time from the art-deco 1950s to something more modern. Now if the special effects folks can pull off the rich detail that the game delivers to the under-the-sea Rapture, this could be the sci-fi movie of the year; if it gets made.

If you like story based games that pull you through the narrative, pick up a copy!

BioShock (PC Version)

BioShock (Xbox Version)

Up Next in the Library

A quick note to mention that I have finished the Last Mythal series and am on to Robin Hobb's Forest Mage.

I will write up a review of the Last Mythal shortly, but I just wanted to say how excited I am to be reading a Hobb book again. The author digs deeply into the psyche of her characters to allow a deep and fully realized character to emerge. Her stories are narrative driven with less action than you see in most modern fantasy, but the lush detailing of her world building combined with the intense character study of her protagonists make her work feel less like a novelization and more like biography. I look forward to telling you more about it soon!