Bioshock interview - Xbox 360

This month we've talked exclusively to Irrational's Joe McDonagh about underwater sensation Bioshock, due for release this August. With Bioshock so close to release, Joe tells us more about the game, what he thinks you'll like about it and how it feels to see it come to fruition. Read the interview, or listen to it in full as audio and hear it all first hand. Bioshock is going to be huge this summer - find out more inside information in our Bioshock interview for Xbox 360 now!
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Bioshock interview for Xbox 360
Irrational’s Joe McDonagh is in a good mood. He should be. He’s spent the past week or so, travelling Europe and letting eager games journlaists get their first hands-on experience with the opening levels of their highly-anticipated horror-shooter (with nobs on) Bioshock. After we’ve had our first experience of Rapture, we step aside, to have a few words...
What’s it like to watch real people finally playing your game?
It’s been fascinating watching over the last few weeks. The thing which seems to really resonate with people is the physicality of the world. People just want to pick things up, break things, play with these toys. I saw this guy, pick this body up – set it fire with incinerate, drag it across the level and then throw it at a big daddy. It’s that sort of experimentaion which people are enjoying.
Since it has so many of these systems, how do you approach teaching people how to play?
It’s a difficult balance to strike between showing the player how to use these plasmids [In game special powers – Ed] and giving threm every way to do it. All the first four or five plasmids you find, there’s clearly a set-up to how you’re meant to use it. We had to put that in, as people were lost. People aren’t used to this. People are used to having guns and shooting people with them. They aren’t used to having these tools you can re-interpt the environment with. So while we did that, we wanted to leave some things for the player to discover. It would be no fun just to be told what to do, and just did that.

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