Irrational hypes Bioshock some more
The Cult of Rapture, Bioshock’s community site, posted a podcast with Ken Levine, lead designer at Irrational Games. The topic was about Bioshock’s Little Sisters, and the supposed difficulty that players will face in dealing with them.
You see, these Little Sisters aren’t really kids. They just look like girls, and they extract “Adam” from dead bodies. Adam is used as currency in Bioshock. Yes, these guys in Irrational are sick—we love them.
Since you’ll need Adam if you’re to survive Bioshock, harvesting this strange currency becomes a problem because if you do that, the Little Sisters die. After all, who wants to kill malnourished kids? Even if these creatures aren’t really kids, the developers expect this to screw with our heads.
And you know what? It just might.
Levine revealed in the podcast that you can’t hurt Little Sisters with weapons. This is a good decision on the developer’s part because you won’t be able to shoot children gratuitously. Plus, not being able to hurt Little Sisters with ordinary weapons adds to the overall creep factor. I’ve always wanted to wet my pants while playing.
Alright guys, enough with the tease already. There are three months to go before Bioshock hits the shelves. No need to chafe the itch.
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5 opinions for Irrational hypes Bioshock some more
Klopzi
May 28, 2007 at 7:53 am
After reading the Bioshock forum over at Xbox.com, where every second comment was some person looking forward to being able to kill the little sisters (eg. “Those kids are gonna get owned”), I’m glad the Bioshock dev team has prevented players from hurting the little sisters with weapons.
I’m all for disturbing, scary, and atmospheric games; however, I wouldn’t be too keen on playing a game where it’s possible to off helpless little girls and their teddy bears.
I guess all we can do now is wait for Bioshock to hit the shelves in the Fall - I’ll be one of the first in line, I bet.
Mike
May 30, 2007 at 4:20 am
Maybe the devs would give us some incentive not to harvest from the Little Sisters. That would make things even more interesting. So far, I think they’ve done a good job (at least, according to the hype they’ve generated) handling the mechanics on the Little Sisters.
I think it would be awfully difficult to harvest from a Little Sister, thanks to those Big Daddies. If this were the case, looking for alternatives would be something I just might do when I set foot in Rapture.
Klopzi
May 31, 2007 at 6:12 am
Right now, I think the only incentive they have for not harvesting from the little sisters is the big daddies. If those guys are as nasty as they appear in the trailers, I’ll have no problems steering clear.
Tony
Jul 31, 2007 at 9:44 am
No question, I AM looking forward to own those sisters!
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