New BioShock Game Should Be More Like First Game Than Infinite

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The very first BioShock game, released in 2007, received universal acclaim. Its innovative use of setting, philosophical themes, and brutal combat helped to make it one of the most memorable games of its console generation, and it continues to influence titles today. After the release of BioShock: The Collection in 2016, the franchise was pretty quiet until the confirmation of BioShock 4 in 2019.

2K Games and Cloud Chamber Studios clearly have an eye on expanding the franchise, as in addition to BioShock 4, there was the reveal that a Netflix film adaption was in the works. While all of this exciting new BioShock content was good news for fans, the majority of BioShock 4's development has been shrouded in an air of secrecy. It's been three years since the game was announced, and still, players don't have a clear idea of what the next entry will entail. However it shapes up, many fans are hoping that BioShock 4 will have more in common with the original game than with the most recent installment BioShock Infinite.

The Best Possible Settings for BioShock 4

While BioShock 2 still centered the action in the fan-favorite submerged metropolis of Rapture and BioShock Infinite brought plenty of interesting new elements to the franchise's formula, it was the first BioShock that really stands head and shoulders above the other entries. It's hard to forget the first time seeing the doomed utopia crumbling away under the ocean waves as the bathysphere descends, and nothing in the subsequent games had quite the same impact. This could be why BioShock Infinite's DLC Burial at Sea brought players back to Rapture with a two-part installment that neatly tied up a lot of narrative loose ends that had been in place since the start of the