Scored entertainment-first on WhatSphere's content-balance model 3
Its creator stated on the record that "it was about raising questions, not answering them, If you had to sum up BioShock's story, that's what it is - what happens when ideals meet reality" 1. Its creator stated on the record that "we're in the video game business — we want to please people so that they're going to have an entertaining experience, but we're not trying to make people super…" 2. Taken together, the content-balance model places it entertainment-first at 6 of 100 3.
- 1Creator statementcreator: "It was about raising questions, not answering them. If you had to sum up BioShock's story, that's what it is - what happens when ideals meet reality."DualShockers interview source ↗
- 2Creator statementcreator: "We're in the video game business — we want to please people so that they're going to have an entertaining experience, but we're not trying to make people super-comfortable with everything. We want to…"PC Gamer interview source ↗
- 3Content balanceAdvocacy 6 of 100, tier entertainment-first.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1
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Age: 60 — leans mature
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Faithfulness
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Advocacy
Synopsis
The year is 1960 and the player character, Jack, is on board a plane crossing the Atlantic ocean. Things go wrong though and the plane crashes. Jack is lucky though and finds himself outside a lighthouse. This is no ordinary lighthouse however. It leads to Rapture, an Utopian underwater city built by the tycoon Andrew Ryan. It's not long until Jack is contacted by a man called Atlas who offers Jack his support.
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Advocacy Over Time in Adventure
The average advocacy score of Adventure titles by release year, with this title marked. Higher is more advocacy-driven.
| Year | Average advocacy | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 0 | 2 |
| 1959 | 8 | 2 |
| 1960 | 0 | 2 |
| 1963 | 1 | 3 |
| 1966 | 2 | 3 |
| 1968 | 3 | 2 |
| 1972 | 2 | 4 |
| 1973 | 1 | 2 |
| 1975 | 3 | 5 |
| 1978 | 3 | 2 |
| 1979 | 3 | 2 |
| 1981 | 3 | 2 |
| 1982 | 2 | 4 |
| 1983 | 4 | 3 |
| 1984 | 2 | 8 |
| 1985 | 6 | 2 |
| 1986 | 0 | 3 |
| 1987 | 3 | 4 |
| 1988 | 0 | 2 |
| 1989 | 3 | 5 |
| 1990 | 2 | 3 |
| 1991 | 2 | 2 |
| 1992 | 0 | 2 |
| 1993 | 2 | 3 |
| 1994 | 3 | 4 |
| 1995 | 6 | 4 |
| 1996 | 0 | 3 |
| 1997 | 4 | 9 |
| 1998 | 3 | 4 |
| 1999 | 1 | 9 |
| 2000 | 2 | 9 |
| 2001 | 6 | 8 |
| 2002 | 3 | 10 |
| 2003 | 7 | 8 |
| 2004 | 4 | 11 |
| 2005 | 3 | 11 |
| 2006 | 2 | 11 |
| 2007 | 2 | 12 |
| 2008 | 4 | 7 |
| 2009 | 6 | 8 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10 |
| 2011 | 4 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12 |
| 2014 | 7 | 11 |
| 2015 | 8 | 12 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12 |
| 2017 | 10 | 13 |
| 2018 | 9 | 23 |
| 2019 | 13 | 28 |
| 2020 | 9 | 19 |
| 2021 | 10 | 33 |
| 2022 | 16 | 27 |
| 2023 | 14 | 31 |
| 2024 | 8 | 36 |
| 2025 | 1 | 23 |
| 2026 | 4 | 24 |
| This title (2010) | 6 | 1 |
● This title (2010): advocacy 6 · explore Adventure →
Cast & Crew
IG Fun (game director)
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