BioShock Unveiled

As promised, GameSpot has posted their first look at the new Irrational Games production, which is called BioShock. The Unreal engine powered first person action RPG takes place in a "mysterious genetic laboratory", which is inhabited by various creatures which at point were of the human kind, but definitely aren't any longer. BioShock isn't a sequel to the System Shock games, but Irrational does hope to "further the open-ended, emergent gameplay of the previous games".

While System Shock 2 represented what Irrational general manager Ken Levine describes as "a convergence of technology and commercialism" (that game took place on a corporate-sponsored starship), BioShock will instead represent "a convergence of technology and biological life," or more specifically, genetics. It's important to note: BioShock is not a sequel to any of the System Shock games, nor does it have any official relation to those games. But like the previous games, this one will offer a horror-themed gameplay experience in which what you observe, and what happens to you, will be tempered by your own choices. "[At Irrational], we think emergence is the future," says Levine.