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  • The most amazing introduction to one of the greatest characters ever!

  • I got chills the first time I saw rapture revealed and I still do :P

  • the games from today are no longer the quality of bioshock. a game with soul. a game that everything evil our society together.

  • i love how ur pretty much playing as "the screen" lol

  • Andrew Ryan= Ayn Rand

  • "Son...you're special, you were born to be a dickhead." You know what...they were right.

  • this game is ok.. not the best at all

  • my philosophical ideas differ because im christian. still, from an atheists point of veiw, this is a very interesting idea. it also shows that without authorities, everything will collapse...and i hate authorities. i dont know what to think :L

  • I dont undestand what this game is about :(

  • @RockerGalactus Then play it. Honestly, it's the best game I have ever played.

  • @RockerGalactus Its about a city built bye a man who hated the idea of anyone being higher then him he hated the American government he hated communism he hated anyone being able to call themselves his better so he built a city at the bottom of the sea where the government couldn't tell him what to do where nobody could affect him and he brought all the other people that thought the same way that wanted to live there with him.

  • @kgpspyguy Incorrect. Andrew Ryan built rapture because he attempted at first to be a business man, and upon this he realized how quickly, easily, and without question, his very own government was taking from him. "Why should I sacrifice all that I worked for? Just to save others?!" he thought. "I want a city where a man does honest work and gets what he works for, receives, what he truly deserves!" That is why Andrew Ryan made Rapture.

  • @lionheart122222 Thats basically what I just said with a bit more detail

  • Best intro of damn near every game I've played. So powerful.

  • "I chose the impossible...I chose...RAPTURE!"

  • not exactly but still good

  • I am Andrew Ryan and I am here to ask you a question:

    Is a man not entitled to built a city?

    No, says the Giant Eagle; I'll eat your eyes.

    No, says the Hand of God; I'll bitchslap you.

    No, says the evil hammer and sickle; in Soviet Russia, city builds YOU!

    I didn't understand a word of those answers. Instead,? I got bored and chose the ridiculous. I chose...

    A CITY UNDER THE SEA!

  • @DKDioKlau i got the new bioshock trailer in my favs looks badass

  • @matrixlone Really? *Starts writing new speech*

  • @DKDioKlau hey that sounds familiar, whyd you take the time to do this?

  • @ALLIED7621

    do you want me do remove this?

  • @DKDioKlau course not

  • @ALLIED7621

    ok

    thanks ^.^

  • A city where the artist would drawn uncensored bullsh*t.

    Where the nerds would not be bound by petty bullies.

    Where the great would not be a b*tch slave the small.

    And with the money of your wallet,

    This city under the sea can become your epic city as well.

  • I love the question he asks you. I'm Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask you a question: is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow?

    No, says the man in Washington. it belongs to the poor.

    No, says the man in the Vatican. it belong to God.

    No, says the man in Moscow. it belongs to everyone.

    I rejected those answers. instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...  RAPTURE.

    that is so true right?

  • Wow...as much as I thought the game took a sharp dip in qualitiy for the last quarter or so of the game, I still get absolute goosebumps from his beginning speech. The best intro in any game I have ever played. 

  • Never in all my years of gaming has an intro been so poetic, profound and epic. Brilliant.

  • 0:31 gives me chills

  • One must make the distinction that the first play-through of Bioshock goes beyond just gaming. To call it a "game" is to disregard every unique nuance it has to offer. Bioshock is, in every way, an *experience*.

    And God damn, when Ryan introduces Rapture for the first time ... that'll always give me chills. xD

  • the most epic moment in video games.

  • Is there any way I can get the song when you first see the city, I loved it!

  • if you buy the game through steam content delivery, it can be found in your game cache files. but you probably got it on 360.

  • The song can be found on Bioshock 2's soundtrack, it's available on iTunes (it's called La Mere)

  • The games awesome, but I need to do combos with Plasmids in order to get good kills.

  • if your CPU has good enough quality

    you can read the present on the plane

    it says "To Jack, with love, Mom and Dad, Would you Kindly....." rest is hidden under the ribbon

  • Never knew that, dude. That's creepy as hell, lol.

  • @yungswade

    in fact, there is a weapon in the present. and the message is "To Jack, with love, Mom and Dad, would you kindly crashes this plane at these coordonates."

  • main character is called Jack if you didnt know :P

  • what kind of music is it when he enters the light house

  • "La Mer" by Django Reinhardt.

  • thank you very much

  • You are andrew ryans son.

    He created the vita chamber to his DNA

    Therefore thats why you can use the "vita chamber" and splicers can't

    sooo. Andrew ryan is not dead.

    Its belivable since the bioshock story line is so misleading.

    Think about it ?

  • Did you even finish the game? You find out that Ryan did it with that slut who gave birth to you, then Ryan killed her because she gave you to Tenenbaum, Suchong and Fontaine.

  • Well, then I'm sorry. The german Version is different. Also in the german Version Tenenbaum is not a Nazi-Doctor.

  • Oh sorry, I didn't know the German version was different.

  • Did you not play the game. Shit. You ARE Ryan's son!

  • @06randallj no andrew ryan is dead because the vita chamber in his office was turned off. he wanted you to kill him. P.S bioshock is better than bioshock 2.

  • @06randallj thanks for the spoilers dumbass

  • @06randallj That might make sense, but then again I don't think they're making any more games set in Rapture, so it probably won't go anywhere.

  • I love the art,theme,story,and atmosphere of Bioshock.

  • They should turn or make bioshock a show to really explain the story.

  • Apparently I have the shittiest graphics card ever because whenever I try to play the demo, it gets to the swimming part and I cant do anything else because all I see is the fire, everything else is black, and little white boxes like I have no models or materials for the game. I'm getting a GeForce GTX 295 soon :D

  • It's not only about the card,i think a gtx 295 isn't a very good idea,i mean it makes so many noise,it's expensive ... A HD 4850 or something like that would be a better idea . Think too about your memory and processor .

  • Well a GTX295 is a bit overkill for bioshock if you ask me, I was able to play it running quite well on a Core 2 Duo, Geforce 7900 and 2 Gigs memory, and it even ran not that badly on my older Single Core 3.0 GHZ, Geforce 6800, and 1 Gig memory.

    I think the Geforce 8 series is fine for it, as well as a decent CPU and some memory.

  • I love Bioshock's atmosphere. Create a city only for those who are prodigenous and intellectual, away from the poor, weak, religion and the government. Of course, madness will ensue. My kind of story, every man for himself.

  • Possibly the best story there's been in a game. I hate how people seem to consider MGS a better story.

  • jack talks

  • the only part he talks

  • nice.

  • I don't think knowing every single detail about rapture and it's people is a very good idea. The whole idea is that it's meant to be unknown. It adds to the mystery and whole feel of the rapture world. You are meant to conclude your own ideas about rapture and it's history.

  • well i guess but also mentioning everything that was mentiond in both of the game since a underwater city is exciting and if they made a movie it would be great

  • actully thats not what i meant what i meant was inc all events on the game so you can sit back relax and look at the story go it's hard payign attention to the tapes you collect i just meant collect all info told im the game make it eayer to understand i like the idea of a movie i liked the intro of bioshock that was movie like now i meant the game but in movie format showing every detail but i guess my comment was so bad everyone gave me -6

  • Yah I Agree The First Time I Played The Game I Only Got LIke 20%Intp It And I Fuger Out You Can Play The Taped So I Restart It And It Is Like A Movie A Amazing Movie This Is A Fucking Great Game Its The Best 3 Game I Ever Played And its The Top,But Its Kinda Underapreated Some Say The Story Is Two Confusing And Ect..Witch Is Vary Dissapionting

    I Just Hope That Thay Dont Make Amany Seuquls Like Gta Like Thay Say Thay Might

    It Will Truly Ruin The Game(s)...I Wish Thay Go Tim Burton Syle

  • thankyou it seems like i find games using the retro way very exciting like fallout 3

    it's like a journey back in time and i got more atached to bioshocks story than i thout so i wanted a movie of some sort explaining every single event in the game

    in the game you have to run around looking for tapes everywhere listen to them carefully to understand some parts of the game

    hopefully bioshock 2 will explain more about the story of bioshock

    thankyou

  • Yah I Love Games With Realy Good Story Behind Them,I Personly Dont LIke War Games Soo.

    Yah It It And i Love It I Love A Game With A Copleat Story Like And That Makes You Fell LIke Your In There..

    Oh And There Is A Movie Sedula In 2010,

    I Hope It Dose Come Out And Thay Dont Mess It Up....

    I Think that #2 Will Probly

  • well if they don't have original voice acting and animated in the movie feeling very close to the game it will be a fail as the movie doom if you seen doom

    so i hope they don't screw that up

  • Well Its LIve Action,And There Goina Use Green Screen Like 300

    I Just Hope Good Actior

    I Hope Thay Use Jonney Depp For The Crazed Artist(Sorry For Got His Name )

    That Would Be Good

    And I Hope Thay Dont Change Story Line Like Jack Gets Help By A Splicer Ect

    If Thay Mess This Movie in Any Whay Or Change The Story Line In Any Way Im Gone Get Every Copy And Change The Name,Like For What Thay Did With Gozilla

    I Changed My Copy So It Reads Zilla,

  • they are making a bioshock movie but the game already explains how rapture was built and shit and how jack was born. You need to pay more attention to the game.

  • it's kinda hard to pay attention when getting shot by slicers also was my comment that bad jeez -6

  • the parts that explain the story don't have splicers coming at you.

  • the tapes you collect has alot of info

  • i hope Bio 2 will have a kick-ass intro like this one

  • I hope it is overall as mysterious and wonderful. I like the vibe and feeling and gameplay mindset of Bioshock and hope we don't lose that same feeling when we play 2.

  • love it

  • Man, if there was an amusement park ride, such as Universal Studios, for this game, it would make me PISS MY PANTS. It would be awesome.

  • or if it was a movie

  • Jack wasn't given a genetic growth shot, he was born with a gross musculature of a 19 year old. The plane was hijacked and crashed by Jack when the plane was over Rapture's entrance, he was injected with a memory of a life he never lived. Andrew Ryan killed Jasmine Jolene, his biological mother they never got married though. Jasmine is seen in a flashback at Eve's Garden probably a strip club. Eve's Garden is found in Fort Frolic, where you encounter Sander Cohen.

  • i think if you turn the sound up you can hear jack fireing the gun just before the plane crashs

  • What made the plane crash, I wonder?

  • Play Bioshock and find out...

  • There was no plane crash, this is injected memory.

  • no well actually the plane crash was real i think

    only your life so far was injected

  • There was a plane crash, but his whole life was injected memory.

  • Oh my god, I need a 360 right now >.>

  • This ill be out on PS3 soon. i went on the webisite and saw. I have it now on x-box and it is totally awsome. I highly recommend it!

  • I think ti's already been on ps3 for a while, but I have neither one of the "true consoles" so ya =P

  • it is out lol. it has been since '08

    great game.

  • dont mean to be annoying but, 07

  • i was talking about the PS3 version being out since '08

    but you are correct that it was out (on PC and 360) in '07

  • Andrew ryan

    switch the A and the R and you have....

    Ayan Randrew

    coincidence?

    I think not

  • Thank you captain obvious. The game takes place in a Randian nightmare...they didn't make much effort to hide it.

  • some people have no idea who she is.

    Just educatin the masses.

    (I know they didnt try to hide it, but to some people that have never heard of objectivism ayn rand is completly irrelevant)

  • I agree with, crimson toast, I didnt know how she was until i googled and im sure most people dont. anyway I do agree with you, bioshock is like a randian nightmare. its crazy.

    her books sound interesting thogh. I want to get "atlas shrugging" (its called something like that ^^; )

  • i was thinking about getting this.whats the storyline????

  • The storyline is insane. It's so confusing and ties in brilliantly. It's like Lost, except it's not made up as it goes along. The gameplay's immaculate and really original. GET IT!

  • Your a magic underwater clown fish looking for your daddy...

  • I was wondering if anyone else had noticed the "Would you kindly" on the present too... kinda wierd his parents would be saying that; unless they knew...

  • he didnt have "parents". Jack was conditioned with false memories, he was sent for by Atlas at the right time and was given instructions to force down the plane at the right place, which is what that present is.

  • oh right, yeah, sorry I did know that xD, haven't played in ages, i was just thinking that he was raised outside of rapture after being "born"!

  • just started playing this game, when i first saw the opening scene my jaw nearly dropped when i saw the underwater city

  • Welcome to Rapture...

  • "They told me ,son , you were born to do great things" "you know what, they were right" I love that line so much but there are other awesome ones like when Ryan says about men creat, slaves obey etc.

  • Definitely one of the best intros to a video game. Definitely one of my favorite games of all time.

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  • were can i download the intro?

  • Continued:

    Firstly try to create before trying to destroy ...

    Never think that there is a final bound but yet aloud yourself that in your actions be bounded by your own percepts and other selfregulating acts

  • You should be aware of Environment ... of rights of every being including human being ...

    And try to see Universe Kosmos at "the way it is"

    Look to see

    Conceive to see and learn ...

    Use your mind ...

    Explore but be explorable and curious

    Be always ready for a movement always in the constant mind upping

    Some could call that some sort of meditating

    Be knowledgeable but learn first how to use the knowledge ...

  • Idiotic idea really ...

    You can expect that human beings and so called thinking beings act as a bees

    We have a conciseness and awareness

  • I thought it was an absolutely excellent idea to set this game in 1960. If it was set in more modern times, I don't think it would have made as much of an impact.

  • wait....so it takes place in 1960???? not recently???

  • yes... 1960

  • I chose Rapture!!!!

  • why is that the only time he talks?..

  • "No Gods or Kings. Only Man."

  • hes son died?

  • in between 20-25 while he is talking you can kinda here like a gun thing gettin pulled back!

  • by far they best horror game ever

  • What the hell Condemned 2 is a good horror game, neither is THE best horror game but theyre good ! No reason to thumb that guy down.

  • I only thumb him down because he is stupid. they were both by the same company, Bioshock didnt rip anything off of anything, System Shock was a PRECUSOR to this game

  • ok w/e, i guess its jus personall opinion, but dont say im stupid jus for saying what i think is a good horror game.

  • No, System Shock 2 is one of the best horro games out there. Which BioShock blatantly ripped off. =P BUT, I still greatly enjoyed BioShock.

  • bioshock is made by the creators of systemshock

  • ye but graphic sux

  • it's an old game. Back then, those graphics were grade-A.

    Pong was considered graphically intensive in the early days of video games

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  • Yeah, 2 years ago. So very old!

  • This game is timeless

  • By far, by FAR, the best intro to a game, ever. Hands down.

    This game is absolute gold. Even if you dont like FPS's, get it. This games messages is worth getting it all on its own.

    Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • wow tht is the only time u here jacks voice

  • Man, this is awesome!

    The moment when Andrew Ryan says "...i chose Rapture!" and the music swells up, this always gives me shivers.

    Greatest Intro ever!

  • if the rapture wasnt fucked up it would be A COOL place to live

  • ''They told me, son you're special.

    You were born to do great things.

    And you know what? They were right.''

    Sounds pretty fucking nice, doesnt it?

  • i love how on the present it says

    ''would you kindly open this on the plane''

    or summink along those lines

    ITS GENIOUS..that shows attention to detail

  • this was a great game, I had it for 360 but now that I have a PS3 im thinking of re-buying it. It really is that good and im not even a big fan of FPS.

  • dude that statue of andrew ryan in the intro is fukin creepy

  • my m8 played this game for the first time around 23:00 and he nearly crapped his pants when it suddenly appeared out of nowhere xD

  • You know what? Maybe our hero did just something he was prompt to, not so great.

    Fuck the greatest heroes, fuck Andrew Ryan, and fuck Washington for they do not care a damn about the poor.

  • Are you kidding me? Washington doesn't care about the poor? Our whole government is set up to tax the rich to benefit the poor. Who funds the poor's education? Who pays their Medicare? Who pays for welfare? It sure as hell isn't the poor. We give far too much to the poor; and now there's very little incentive to be successful, because you can be rewarded to be unproductive.

  • Before you yell and cry about this you should realize this game takes place in the 1960's, not today. Besides it is a game, or an adaptation of the reality back then. The intro to this game is the most interesting and well thought-out game I have ever played. Don't think about the things they do or say too much in this game, because it is all just for entertainment.

  • When I first saw the city, I was like "Holy crap!"

  • hahah, no kidding!

  • one of the best games I ever played

  • Does anyone know where to get the cheeriful music at the start of ryan's speech?

  • cult of rapture

    you can download all the music from there

  • Can't figure out what's wrong - I can't get the correct ambient voices to play during the introduction sequence - when I install it I hear Dr. Steinman's voice instead of the "something's coming" voices. Frusterating...

  • Great intro, Love Ryans speech. Love the game, going through it again on hard....eeek!

  • BEST INTRO EVER

  • DEFFFFFFFINITELY!!

  • Buste123- Game Informer agrees with you on that.

  • Is a man not entitled to watch youtube videos to find out the quote? No, says the man without a computer, figure it out youself, no says the man from the computer company, use our brand. I choose something different.

  • I am surprised no one commented about the speech starting with "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?..."That's classic.---Would you kindly?

  • OK

    Rapture - the Republican Paradise!

  • Objectivist Paradise... or dystopia dpending on how you view it. The fact Andrew Ryan is an Industrialist doesn't make him a Republican. He's also an Atheist, does this make him a Leftist?

    He's a polarizing figure, not someone you can sum up with a simple word like Republican or Democract. He's somewhere in the middle, and his city takes Objectivism to its logical conclusion. Not everyone in society can be an elite, "someone has to scrub the toilets" as Fontaine said.

  • Logical Conclusion? I have not played the game, but why would working for yourself, and not harming others lead to destruction?

    I do not believe that his society would have succeeded, but not because it was inherently flawed. It failed, in part because people could not leave. Those who may have left when they became dissatisfied could not. I will soon play it and possibly revise my opinion.

  • His city failed because everyone went mad from an addiction. x_x

  • yeah it all sounds good on a paper doesnt it? its just a matter of finding the way that lasts longest as always will people feel differently and want different....

    so yeah, it all works for a bit but will eventually fall, no matter what type of ruler it is

  • objectivism, good ol' ayn rand

  • I love the music in this particular part of the game. It's eerieness really compliments the atmosphere.

  • I played this like 3 times now I'm going to do hard without dieing be I'm stuck.

  • they told me son you were born do to great thaings they were right

  • I love this entire intro. The game was amazxing EVERYWHERE, but I liked the city's intro.

  • the city unveiling is the scene that impressed me most in any videogame ever [2]

  • the city unveiling is the scene that impressed me most in any videogame ever

  • The bit where he says

    "I chose....... Rapture!" And the screen lifts up to reveal the city? I though that was awesome, in actual fact, thats the only reason im watching this vid right now, i love that scene.

  • I love how they handled the plane crash. Most other people would have had some great big graphics-heavy wow-sequence with hundreds of explosions and it would've been boring.

    This is subtle and powerful.

  • Have you played it all the way through? I don't want to spoil it if you haven't but... let's just say there's a reason they don't show the crash.

  • extremely epic intro - one of the best of any games. my jaw literally dropped when the city was revealed for the first time

  • i hear that

  • i want to run it! but my X3100 and my C2D t250 sucks! :(((((((

  • rich man xDDD, im joking, i would love to have these things! a Q6600, what a simple power dream, and a 8800 GT cool