Game Overview:  BioShock is a first-person shooter video game by 2K Boston/2K Australia, designed by Ken Levine. The game is a PC and Xbox 360 title. It was released on August 21, 2007 in North America and on August 24, 2007 in Europe and Australia.

Set in 1960, the player assumes the role of a plane crash survivor named Jack, who must explore the dystopian underwater city of Rapture and survive the mutated beings and mechanical drones within it. The game incorporates elements found in role-playing and survival horror games, and is described by the developers as a "spiritual successor" to their previous title System Shock 2.