BioShock is set in 1960, in which the player guides the protagonist, Jack, after his airplane crashes in the ocean near the bathysphere terminus that leads to the underwater city of Rapture. Built by the business magnateAndrew Ryan, the city was intended to be an isolated utopia, but the discovery of ADAM, a genetic material which can be used to grant superhuman powers, initiated the city's turbulent decline. Jack tries to find a way to escape, fighting through hordes of ADAM-obsessed enemies, and the iconic, deadly Big Daddies, while engaging with the few sane humans that remain and eventually learning of Rapture's past. The player, as Jack, is able to defeat foes in a number of ways by using weapons, utilizing plasmids that give unique powers, and by turning Rapture's own defenses against them. BioShock includes elements of role-playing games, giving the player different approaches in engaging enemies such as by stealth, as well as moral choices of saving or killing characters; additionally, the game and biopunk theme borrow concepts from the survival horror genre.
BioShock is a first-person shootervideo game series developed by Irrational Games—the first under the name 2K Boston/2K Australia—and designed by Ken Levine. The first game in the series was released for the Windows operating system and Xbox 360 video game console on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later (August 24) in Europe and Australia. A PlayStation 3 version of the game, which was developed by 2K Marin, was released internationally on October 17, 2008 and in North America on October 21, 2008 with some additional features. The game was also released for the Mac OS X operating system on October 7, 2009. A version of the game for mobile platforms has also been developed by IG Fun. A sequel, BioShock 2, was released on February 9, 2010. On August 12, 2010, Irrational Games unveiled a trailer for a new game titled BioShock Infinite, released on March 26, 2013. With the release of BioShock Infinite selling over 11 million copies as of May 2015, the three games combined have more than 25 million copies sold.
The music soundtrack of the BioShock series is composed of licensed music from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as well as an original orchestral score by Garry Schyman.
The original score for BioShock was composed by Garry Schyman. A selection of tracks was released to fans for free on August 24, 2007 in MP3 format via the official 2K Games website. But for now the links are broken.
BioShock: Orchestral Score
"Bioshock Main Theme (The Ocean on his Shoulders)" - 1:56
"Welcome to Rapture" - 1:52
"Dr. Steinman" - 1:00
"The Docks" - 0:53
"The Dash" - 0:35
"Step into My Gardens" - 1:10
"Dancers on a String" - 1:28
"Cohen's Masterpiece" - 2:53
"The Engine City" - 1:07
"Empty Houses" - 1:43
"This Is Where They Sleep" - 1:21
"All Spliced Up" - 1:03
Sounds of Rapture
A soundtrack was released to German consumers, containing all the same tracks as Orchestral Score, but with dubbed recordings from the game in between the songs, such as the speech of Andrew Ryan that plays when entering Rapture in the beginning of the game.
It's all right -- yyyyeaaaaaaaaah! Hold up, gots to boost those tray ups Think I'm playin' pa, reach and get glazed up Face all sprayed up, on the floors The left side of your cheek, go ahead and pick that face up Of course I'mma fuck with ya'll niggas, ya'll pussy (yeah) Ya'll niggas know how Pretty Toney get down Made The Post in '98, fuck an album, when I need CREAM It's on, nigga, faggots, better check out their accountants When I hung around broke niggas, and broke bitches You know what that means, it equals no riches and I can't have that, I got a lot of wiz'es They spoiled, told 'em they don't have to move drizzers Whatever they see, is none of they business I do what I do, to get that spinach Whether it's kill 'em, spray 'em, play 'em, all on the streets I weigh 'em, saute 'em, Ghost and Kay Slay 'em This kid about his papers, paychecks Thinkin' you can pay me now, any bear feelings, just say it Go 'head brother, just as fast as you front It be an honor just to lay you down The first check I ever got Son I spent it up top, blowin' a cop, cop, cop, cop, cop... I had 2 Cent, plus my car fare home It wasn't even Broadway until I got those stones I was sixteen, shit, I barely knew what a gram was Studied Scarface, so I knew what the plan was To get that CREAM, and serve them fiends Around the same time my nigga Buck converged with Beans Two way team, posted up on the benches Wit a magnet for a stash, that I kept hid under the black fences Jakes shootin' through the middle, like Kerry Kittles I was baggin' up small hittin' fiends, with very little Though they switched nickels on niggas, and pointed out bitches In the precinct got the snitchin', so they hit 'em off with something decent Avoid the sweeping, them boys is beastin' On point, but I'm kinda paranoid when they creepin' Faggot ass niggas, when I ride get the fuck out the way When I see jewels, all I know is take I'm like a seed at a birthday party, all I want is cake In other words, papes, sellin' herbs and tapes Movin' birds and weight, through suburban states God damn it, I told ya'll niggas This is a Theodore stickup Wake ya bitch up, watch the fifth pick up! Yeah, you heard what the bitch said When we wasn't makin' too much muthafuckin' CREAM and shit We was beatin' the shit out of niggas Takin' their little Summer Youth shit Buyin' beer and weed and shit Shakin' niggas upside down on some cartoon shit Change fall all out of their pockets and shit Yellin' and tellin' the cops, fuck ya'll niggas!
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