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Levine: BioShock story could have been better

Posted on Thursday, 21 February 2008 by Anneleen, source: eg

Ken Levine, BioShock's creative director, said that according to him the gameplay in the third part of the shooter was the strongest point of the game, but the story peaked too soon.

During his speech at the GDC ('Storytelling in BioShock: Empowering players to care about your stupid story') he pointed out that mystery is an important part in a story, both in games and for example TV series.

"We call it the mystery balloon because we're pretentious," Levine continued. "Think of a half-filled helium balloon that's naturally going down. That's mystery, or your story, and your job is to tap it back up again before it gets too low. The problem is if you tap it up too high, as with season three of Lost, you start losing your audience. They want some questions answered, but not all of them."

Levine also said that BioShock was praised because of its story, but to get good sales figures the avarage 'I-want-to-shoot-things' player would have to be interested too.

"We understood people would just want to come into BioShock and blow stuff up," he said. "The sales numbers reflect we were able to hit those people. If you don't hit those people, you're going to be making those beloved games we at Irrational have made many of that sell 150,000 units."

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