Back from my last post I was thinking about design and I remember having played Bioshock this week. I returned and took some pictures:
Apparently the game is a critique Ayn Rand’s philosophy. I don’t know Ayn Rand, or her theory of Objectivism. But I gather it has something to do with leaving humans to do what they want without control. A sort of anarchist vision attached to free-market capitalism, which results in the ruined underwater metropolis that is Rapture.
The game doesn’t look too shabby on low graphics settings either, it makes the immersion into a steampunk art-deco fantasy world all the more real. If I had to pick I’d guess the setting reminds me most of the film Atlantis: the Lost Empire.
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