Bioshock's Original Concept

[Gikoku]

Bioshock's Original Concept

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The only way to get your weekend started properly is to read old design documents and pitches for the games you love. Thoughtfully, the folks over at Irrational Games have released part of the original game pitch for BioShock! It's a fascinating look at what BioShock was originally perceived as, especially since this pitch was created five years before the game was released. Oh yeah, and the game described in this pitch is wildly different from the BioShock released in 2007.

What changed in the five years between pitch and release? How about the fact that BioShock was originally not about Rapture? According to the pitch, there is no underwater city of any kind. Instead, BioShock was originally going to take place on an island, and you were sent to rescue a lady, but there's a cult on the island and genetic mutations extracted out of animals and weapon customization and...

Oh, who am I kidding? Stop reading this story and go to the Irrational site to check out the first part of the pitch document. Irrational will be releasing more of the pitch in the near future, complete with commentary from the developers involved with the game's design and production.

Click Here for the Original Pitch​

 

[Purple Nurple]

Re: Bioshock's Original Concept

Instead, BioShock was originally going to take place on an island, and you were sent to rescue a lady, but there's a cult on the island and genetic mutations extracted out of animals and weapon customization and...

Wow, sounds a bit like the original Far Cry?

I heard a while back that Bioshock was originally intended to be set in a WW2 Nazi sciencey-thing. Man stuff changes...

 

[Cain]

Re: Bioshock's Original Concept

Awesome, I had read about the original concept on the bioshock wiki, and its cool to hear that its been released.