Ken Levine to bring back the ‘mystery’ back to Bioshock.

Bioshock Infinite

At least it's not a picture of Shirley Crabtree.

Ken Levine, creator of Bioshock, has been speaking at Gamescom about Bioshock: Infinite, saying that he’s ready to bring the mystery back.  The only mystery about Bioshock was how they managed to make such a dull collection of fetch quests out of such a good setting.  But anyway.

“One of the most important things to us was bringing the mystery back to the franchise,” he said. “When BioShock 1 came out people were like, ‘what? What am I seeing here? What is this?’

Yeah, we here at PEOWW were like ‘argh!  What’s this green case?  Argh!  There’s a shiny disc in it!  Arghhh!  The disc goes in the white thing that says Xbox on it.  WHAT IS IT?  WHAT IN GOD’S NAME IS IT?!  What’s this vibrating, plastic thing in my hands.  Why is the flat, bright thing in this room showing images.  What is a plane?  Argh!  Why can the flat thing talk to me in a bad Irish accent.

Bioshock was as mysterious as Doom 3.  Now shut up and make something as good as System Shock again. 

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