”In what country is there a place for people like me?” - Andrew Ryan

From 2K Boston (Formerly Irrational Games) comes the long-awaited Bioshock, the decidedly distant spiritual successor to Irrational's older cult hits of the System Shock series.

After surviving a plane crash in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, your character finds himself drifting at the base of a towering lighthouse, it's eerily monolithic stature silhouetted in the moonlight and hidden by the smoke of the doomed airplane. It wouldn't be much of a game if you just sat around and waited for a rescue boat, so like any good explorer, you climb your way out of the water and into the lighthouse. Once inside, you enter a Bathysphere and find yourself being taken down to the watery abyss.

What you find in the murky depths is not mere stone or plant life, but a vast and complex city called Rapture, the brainchild of cavalier industrialist Andrew Ryan, a testament to the dangers of unrestricted science.

More importantly though, Rapture will serve as the setting for the most unique and engaging experience ever to land on the Xbox 360.