Editing BioShock (section)

==Synopsis==

===Setting===
''BioShock'' takes place in [[Rapture (BioShock)|Rapture]], an underwater city built in the 1940s by [[business magnate]] [[Andrew Ryan (BioShock)|Andrew Ryan]], who wanted to create a [[utopia]] for society's elite to flourish outside of government control.<ref name="gamesradar_2010-02-10">{{cite web|author=Staff|date=February 10, 2010|url=https://www.gamesradar.com/bioshock-101-the-story-so-far/|title=BioShock 101: The Story So Far|website=[[GamesRadar+]]|url-status=live|access-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210110501/http://www.gamesradar.com/bioshock-101-the-story-so-far/|archive-date=February 10, 2018}}</ref> To protect and isolate Rapture, Ryan bans contact with the surface world.<ref name="John 18–20">{{cite journal|last=John |first=Lanchester |date=January 1, 2009 |title=Is It Art? |url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/john-lanchester/is-it-art |journal=[[London Review of Books]] |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=18–20 |access-date=October 3, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005125352/http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/john-lanchester/is-it-art |archive-date=October 5, 2016 }}</ref> 

As Rapture flourished, wealth disparities grew, and criminal Frank Fontaine used his influence over the disenfranchised working class to establish illegal enterprises and obtain power—enough to rival Ryan. With doctors [[Brigid Tenenbaum]] and Yi Suchong, Fontaine created his own company dedicated to researching plasmids and gene tonics. As ADAM became addictive and demand skyrocketed, Fontaine secretly mass-produced ADAM through slugs implanted in the stomachs of orphaned girls, nicknamed "Little Sisters". Fontaine was killed in a shootout with police, and Ryan took the opportunity to seize his assets, including control of the Little Sisters.

In the months that followed, a man amongst the poor named [[Atlas (BioShock)|Atlas]] rose up and began a violent revolution against Ryan, with both sides using plasmid-enhanced humans (known as "Splicers") to wage war on one another. To protect the Little Sisters, Ryan created the "[[Big Daddy (BioShock)|Big Daddies]]": genetically enhanced humans surgically grafted into gigantic lumbering diving suits designed to escort the sisters as they scavenged ADAM from dead bodies.<ref name="bit-tech" /> Tensions came to a head on New Year's Eve of 1958 when Atlas ordered an all-out assault on Ryan and his supporters. The conflict turns Rapture into a war-torn [[dystopia]], resulting in societal collapse, countless deaths, many Splicers becoming disfigured and insane from ADAM abuse, and the few sane survivors barricading themselves away from the chaos<ref name="theatlantic_2010-02-18">{{cite web|last=Serwer|first=Adam|date=February 18, 2010|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/02/welcome-to-rapture/36180/|title=Welcome To Rapture|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url-status=live|access-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725223421/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/02/welcome-to-rapture/36180/|archive-date=July 25, 2019}}</ref><ref name="IGN_2007-08-16">{{cite web |url=http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/813/813214p1.html |title=''BioShock'' Review |website=[[IGN]] |last=Onyett |first=Charles |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=August 16, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817035302/http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/813/813214p1.html |archive-date=August 17, 2007 }}</ref>

===Plot===
{{see also|Characters of the BioShock series}}
[[File:Bioshock-rapture.jpg|thumb|''BioShock''{{'}}s game design drew on [[art deco]] for much of its imagery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/bioshock|title=Unreal Engine 3 Powers Critical and Commercial Success BioShock|website=Unreal Engine|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185344/https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/bioshock|url-status=live}}</ref>]]

In 1960, the protagonist, Jack, is a passenger on a plane that crashes in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The only survivor, Jack makes his way to a nearby lighthouse; inside is a [[bathysphere]] that takes him to Rapture. Jack is contacted via radio by Atlas, who helps guide him through the ruined city.

Atlas requests Jack's help in saving his family, who he says are in a docked bathysphere. When Jack first encounters the Little Sisters, Atlas urges him to kill them to harvest their ADAM. Dr. [[Brigid Tenenbaum]] intervenes and insists Jack should spare them, providing him with a plasmid that can remove the sea slug from their bodies and free them of their brainwashing. Jack works his way to the bathysphere, but Ryan destroys it before Jack can reach it. Infuriated, Atlas has Jack fight his way through various districts toward Ryan's lair, forcing Jack to contend with Rapture's deranged citizens along the way, such as the surgical doctor J.S. Steinman and artist and musician [[Sander Cohen]].

Jack enters Ryan's office. Ryan reveals the truth of Jack's origins: he is actually Ryan's illegitimate son, sold by Ryan's mistress as an [[embryo]] to Fontaine, who had Tenenbaum and Suchong rapidly age Jack into adulthood and turned into an obedient assassin, capable of accessing any of Rapture's systems locked to Ryan's genetic code and thus ensure Fontaine's victory in the war. Jack was smuggled to the surface with false memories of a normal life, waiting to be called back to Rapture when needed. Ryan takes control of Jack's actions by asking, "Would you kindly?"; a phrase that has preceded many of Atlas' commands as a hypnotic trigger, forcing him to follow any orders without question. Jack also realizes he was responsible for the plane crash, having read a letter onboard containing the same trigger phrase.<ref name="vox sept2016">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/3/13112826/bioshock-video-games-art-choice |title=Bioshock proved that video games could be art |first=Peter |last=Suderman |date=October 3, 2016 |access-date=October 3, 2016 |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003194002/http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/3/13112826/bioshock-video-games-art-choice |archive-date=October 3, 2016 }}</ref>

Ryan chooses to die by his own will and compels Jack to beat him to death with a golf club. Atlas reveals himself to be Fontaine, having faked his death and used "Atlas" as an alias to hide his identity while providing a heroic figure for the poor to rally behind. With Ryan dead, Fontaine takes control of the city and leaves Jack to be killed by hostile security drones. Jack is saved by Dr. Tenenbaum, who helps remove Fontaine's mental conditioning, including one that would have stopped Jack's heart. Jack pursues Fontaine to his lair, where Fontaine transforms himself into a hulking humanoid creature by injecting himself with a large supply of ADAM. The Little Sisters aid Jack in draining the ADAM from Fontaine's body and eventually kill him.

The ending depends on how the player interacts with the Little Sisters:
* If the player rescues all or all but one of the Little Sisters, Jack takes them back to the surface with him and adopts five of them as his daughters. Tenenbaum happily narrates how they go on to live full lives under his care, eventually surrounding him on his deathbed. This ending is considered canon in ''[[BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea]]''.
* If the player harvests more than one Little Sister, Jack turns on the Little Sisters to harvest their ADAM.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://guides.ign.com/guides/793105/page_4.html |title=Guides: BioShock Guide (Xbox 360), BioShock Walkthrough |access-date=January 21, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206081731/http://guides.ign.com/guides/793105/page_4.html |archive-date=February 6, 2009 }}</ref> Tenenbaum sadly narrates what occurs, condemning Jack and his actions. A submarine comes across the plane's wreckage and finds itself surrounded by bathyspheres containing Splicers, who attack the crew and take control of it. The submarine is revealed to be carrying nuclear missiles, with Tenenbaum claiming that Jack has "stolen the terrible secrets of the world":<ref name="bioshock walkthrough">{{cite web|url=http://www.gamebanshee.com/bioshock/walkthrough/fontaineslair.php |title=BioShock&nbsp;– Fontaine's Lair Walkthrough |publisher=GameBanshee |access-date=October 7, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018040421/http://gamebanshee.com/bioshock/walkthrough/fontaineslair.php |archive-date=October 18, 2007 }}</ref> The more Little Sisters Jack harvests throughout the game, the harsher and more furious Tenenbaum's narrative becomes.<ref name="endings">{{cite web |title=BioShock&nbsp;– Little Sisters and Big Daddies (SPOILERS!)&nbsp;– Game Guide |url=https://guides.gamepressure.com/bioshock/guide.asp?ID=3351 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024115707/http://guides.gamepressure.com/bioshock/guide.asp?ID=3351 |archive-date=October 24, 2007 |access-date=November 9, 2007 |publisher=GamePressure}}</ref>