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.
Mcbowflex said on August 19th, 2010 , 2:03 am
Actually it isn’t free market capitalism, or even anarchism that leads Rapture into destruction. It was the introduction of religion, and class envy. You actually have to follow the story line to pick up on it. It was Fontaine that created the class warfare that eventually led to the revolt in rapture. Also, Ayn Rand was an objectivist, not an anarchist.