Introduced 1 mechanic · BioShock 1
BioShock
Made the player's own obedience the subject of the story — the medium's cleanest thesis statement.
Mechanics this game introduced
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Mechanics it built on
Ideas BioShock inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
Descends from
The BioShock series in this dataset
2007
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