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BioShock

BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K. The first game in the BioShock series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms in August 2007; a PlayStation 3 port by Irrational, 2K Marin, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes was released in…

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Genre
First-person shooter
Publisher
2K
Composer
Garry Schyman
Developers
2K Boston · 2K Australia[a]
Directors
Ken Levine · Alyssa Finley
Engine
Unreal Engine 2.5

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BioShock

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BioShock

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related to Awards · 75
BioShock → Action Game, After, AIAS, All Time, Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, Art Direction, At E3, At IGN's, Awards, BAFTA, Best, Best Art Direction, Best Artistic Design, Best Audio, Best Game, Best Games Since, Best Graphics, Best Original Score, Best Original Soundtrack, Best PC Game
related to Ports · 45
BioShock → Additional, An, Another, App Store, August, Australia, Bluetooth-enabled, Boston, Challenge Rooms, China, Digital Extremes, DVD, Feral Interactive, Games, IG Fun, In, Irrational, Jordan Thomas, July, Marin
related to Art and design · 24
BioShock → Art Deco, Bill Gardner, Bioshock's, Capcom's, Early, Gotham-style, He, Hoagy, Hogarth De La Plante, Hugh Ferriss's, Irrational, Jean Paul LeBreton, Levine, Miami Beach, New York City, Once, Plante, Rapture, Rapture's, Rather
related to Audio · 23
BioShock → August, Available, Beyond, BioShock's, CD, Child, Games, Garry Schyman, God Bless, He, In, LP, Moby, MP3, Oscar The Punk, Rapture, Rapture's, Sea, Special Edition, The
related to Critical response · 22
BioShock → Anchored, Andrew Ryan, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Big Sister Is Watching, But, Games, It, Levine, Mainstream, Metacritic, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Sure, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Whittaker Chambers, Wired
related to Gameplay · 20
BioShock → Accessing, ADAM, Aside, Big Daddies, EVE, However If, If, In, Jack, Jack's, Little Sisters, Plasmids, Rapture, System Shock, Tenenbaum, The, Using, Vita-Chamber, Vita-Chambers, Weapons
related to Legacy · 20
BioShock → Black Mirror's, Books, Digital Culture, Glen Creeber, In, In February, Jack, John Lanchester, London Review, Peter Suderman, Playtest, Royston Martin, Several, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian's, The, They, Understanding New Media, Vox, Would
related to Setting · 20
BioShock → ADAM, Andrew Ryan, As ADAM, As Rapture, Atlas, Big Daddies, Brigid Tenenbaum, Fontaine, Frank Fontaine, In, Little Sisters, New Year's Eve, Rapture, Ryan, Splicers, Tensions, The, To, With, Yi Suchong
related to Sales · 14
BioShock → According, August, By March, Content Business Development, In, June, Nvidia's VP, PC, Roy Taylor, Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Interactive, Take-Two Interactive's, The Wall Street Journal, The Xbox
related to Themes and analysis · 11
BioShock → Andrew Ryan's, Atlas, BioShock Infinite, For Tulloch, He, In, Jack, Jack's, Jennings, Rowan Tulloch, Stephanie

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BioShockComposerGarry Schyman1.00infobox
BioShockDevelopers2K Boston1.00infobox
BioShockDevelopers2K Australia[a]1.00infobox
BioShockDirectorsKen Levine1.00infobox
BioShockDirectorsAlyssa Finley1.00infobox
BioShockEngineUnreal Engine 2.51.00infobox
BioShockGenreFirst-person shooter1.00infobox
BioShockModeSingle-player1.00infobox
BioShockPlatformsWindows1.00infobox
BioShockPlatformsXbox 3601.00infobox
BioShockPlatformsPlayStation 31.00infobox
BioShockPlatformsMac OS X1.00infobox
BioShockPlatformsiOS1.00infobox
BioShockPublisher2K1.00infobox
BioShockReleaseWindows, Xbox 360NA: August 21, 2007PAL: August 24, 2007PlayStation 3WW: October 17, 2008NA: October 21, 2008Mac OS XWW: October 7, 2009iOSWW: August 27, 20141.00infobox
BioShockReleaseNA: August 21, 20071.00infobox
BioShockReleasePAL: August 24, 20071.00infobox
BioShockReleaseWW: October 17, 20081.00infobox
BioShockReleaseNA: October 21, 20081.00infobox
BioShockReleaseWW: October 7, 20091.00infobox
BioShockReleaseWW: August 27, 20141.00infobox
BioShockSeriesBioShock1.00infobox
BioShockis a2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston0.90text

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