BioShock: Limited Edition

About

BioShock: Limited Edition is a first-person shooter that layers role-playing elements over its core mechanics. You play as Jack, stranded in the decaying underwater city of Rapture after a plane crash. The environment is a mix of 1960s aesthetics and twisted science, where you scavenge resources, upgrade abilities, and use plasmids, genetic powers like fireballs or telekinesis, to survive. Combat hinges on combining gunplay with strategic ability use against mutated enemies and traps. The story unfolds through environmental storytelling and key interactions, with a central conflict between revolution and authoritarianism. This edition bundles the base game with collectible extras like a Big Daddy figurine, a making-of documentary, and a soundtrack CD featuring remixes of in-game tracks. Known for its sharp narrative and inventive gameplay, the base game holds a 93% user score on Metacritic. Its blend of atmospheric design and moral choice mechanics set a benchmark for the genre. Released in 2007, it remains a landmark title for PC and Xbox 360 players.

Storyline

BioShock takes place in 1960 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where Jack, sole survivor of a plane crash, discovers the entrance to the recluse underwater city of Rapture, at the end of a civil war which left most of this utopia in disrepair. Finding himself in an alien world, he has no choice but to fight for his survival against the Splicers, degenerated citizens addicted to the genetic material known as ADAM, and all the traps laid down by the city's visionary founder, Andrew Ryan. His only help lies in Atlas, a revolutionary man seeking to escape safely to the surface with his family.