Bioshock: Rapture – Book Review
- August 26th, 2011
- By nineinchnailed
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Bioshock: Rapture tells the story of the events leading up to the original Bioshock game. Have you ever wondered where everything came from and how Ryan’s personal utopia became an dystopian nightmare? Bioshock: Rapture will guide you through the events in detail, and hopefully answer many of the questions you may have.
Much of the backstory in Bioshock is told through audio clippings and notes, giving an patchwork overview without going into too much detail. It’s up to the player to piece everything together and work out what’s going on themselves, and it’s a technique that lends itself to creating an immersive atmosphere of confusion and intrigue. It’s also a technique that purposefully leaves gaps in the story, hoping the player will fill them in with their imagination. Like many good examples of storytelling (Half-Life 2, Lost, Star Wars before the prequels), it’s what you don’t know that makes something interesting. Explaining everything to the Nth degree often pulls down the shroud of mystery that made everything so exciting in the first place. Fortunately, Bioshock: Rapture gets the balance more or less right, padding out the story without demystifying it. Read more
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