Three years later, 2K Marin released a sequel set eight years after Jack's escape from Rapture. RELATED: BioShock 4: Four Things We Want From The Sequel On top of that, the game's most interesting mechanics are severely underutilized. Its shooting mechanics are half-baked, and several tonics and Plasmid combinations actually make the humble wrench one of the game's best weapons.
However, over time, players realized that without the brilliant presentation of Rapture and the intriguing mysteries surrounding the characters Andrew Ryan and Atlas, Bioshock's actual gameplay is rather average. Set in the underwater city of Rapture, an Ayn Rand Objectivist utopia gone horribly wrong, BioShock was praised for its gripping story, atmospheric world and the sheer charisma of its characters. In 2007, Irrational Games released a first-person shooter called BioShock, the spiritual successor to 1999's System Shock 2.
