A man chooses, a slave obeys

Video games are one of the most popular ways to entertain you these days. People play them for the blood and gore, and some play them for a living. There are some though that play them for the story in them. I am one of those people and I want to share this with other people. I’m going to show people that video games are more than a way to pass the time or to vent anger by unloading bullets into and N.P.C.

            My first blog post will be about “Bioshock”. In this game you’re an unwilling hero who gets pulled into a power struggle in an underwater metropolis. The city is called Rapture and it was once a magnificent structure that housed thousands. It was built by the great Andrew Ryan who built it to get away from the tyranny and oppressiveness of the world above. Rapture fell out of grace after it was corrupted by a man named Fontaine. Fontaine wanted Rapture for himself so he sabotaged it. Your character comes along after all this happens and Fontaine uses you to get to Ryan. He lies to you and plays you like a fool. When you find out he used you, you feel like you were betrayed by a friend. You feel shocked and hurt. Ryan also is out to get you. He tries to stop you every time you do something he doesn’t like. Every time you travel to a new area in Rapture, Ryan has to try and stop you. After a while he seems like and annoying fly that keeps buzzing around you on a hot summer day. In the game there are also “little sisters”. These are little girls who have genetic material in them. They are Raptures main source of conflict. Everyone wants them and there are bloody battles over just one of them. In the game you can choose to harvest or rescue them. This decision impacts you character and the way the game is played. If you harvest them you get more Adam (genetic material) but it kills them. If you rescue them you get less Adam but the little girl lives. You get to decide what their fate is.

            All in all the game has many choices that are very influential to the player. You get to decide a lot of things and these show a lot of things about you. The way people act in the game is very similar to how they would act in life.  At the end of the game the once might creator of Rapture parts with these words. “A man chooses, a slave obeys.” How you interpret you is up to you.