News > BioShock is a shooter, no?
April 30, 2007
It's very simple, BioShock is a shooter. Although previous entries in the series have been what many would call shooter plus, Jon Chey from Irrational had this to sayabout Bioshock:
Actually, this is pretty simple: BioShock is a shooter...GTA asked questions about what it means to be a driving game ("why do you have to go round and round a closed track?") and that turned the genre on its head. We're trying to do the same thing for the shooter genre by adding non-linear exploration, choice of tools, deeper interactions with AIs and so on. But at the end of the day, you've got to be able to aim and pull the trigger. This is a shooter.
It sounds like this game, like its predecessors, will offer a bit more to gamers than standard fare. If I had to guess, I'd say "this is a shooter" doesn't mean that the game is lacking the depth that fans are looking for.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
