BioShock is a 2007 first person shooter developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia and published by 2K Games, in which a plane crash survivor named Jack discovers Rapture, an underwater city built as an isolated utopia by the industrialist Andrew Ryan. Jack fights through Rapture's mutated inhabitants while uncovering how the discovery of a genetic material called ADAM led to the city's collapse. The game is widely credited with showing that a shooter could carry serious philosophical and political themes, and a piece of it was included in the Smithsonian's 2011 exhibition on the art of video games.
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1. BioShock (Wikidata)
Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for Best GameQuote, Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for Best Game
Wikidata P166 (award received): British Academy Games Award for Best Game.
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BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K.
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BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K.
Created By: Ken Levine, Article lead sentence
BioShock's concept was developed by Irrational's creative lead, Ken Levine, and incorporates ideas by 20th century dystopian and utopian thinkers such as Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley, as well as historical figures such as John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Walt Disney.
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was an American video game developer which started in 1997 formed from three former Looking Glass Studios employees
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