Why is Bioshock TOTALY stolen from this game?

[Depression]

I played FIRST bioshock, and that game was awesome, after release on steam i try'd Systemshock 2, and i TOTALY love what i saw, but almost all i known already from bioshock...

All difference between this and bishock are the style (CYBER-punk instead of STEAM-punk), and the story, all other feels almost like the same game, any special reason for it?

[Ivlichnov]

Yes, Bioshock is a spiritual successor to System Shock 2.

System Shock 2 was made by a collaboration of Looking Glass Studios and Irrational Games.

I guess Ken Levine (who worked at Looking Glass, before founding Irrational Games) didn’t have the rights to the System Shock name and so he went on to make Bioshock instead.

System Shock 2 (Zero Punctuation).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ScjZGArpUs

[Depression]

Oh, ok Thanks for the info

[OTJEJ]

Dead Space 1 reminds me SS2 as well.

[Depression]

Originally posted by OTJEJ:

Dead Space 1 reminds me SS2 as well.

Dead space 1 remindes ME totaly of RE4, not the story but the rest, gamplay, enemys and this stuff.

[FormerlyKnownAsChris]

Originally posted by OTJEJ:

Dead Space 1 reminds me SS2 as well.

From what im told in the beginning of its development Dead space was actually meant to be a sequel to system shock, but EA did not get the full rights to system shock so they turned it into dead space.

[Depression]

oh, interessting... someone shoudl really do another systemshock game... a diamond under all this games.

[FormerlyKnownAsChris]

Originally posted by Flöckchen:

oh, interessting... someone shoudl really do another systemshock game... a diamond under all this games.

I was hoping the same. However the rights to system shock for a few years now belonged to some insurance company, I think it was only recently that a new dev managed to get the rights. So maybe there is hope, and who knows? If they make another system shock they might get help from whats left of irrational since they were the original devs.

[Depression]

always this ♥♥♥♥ with "rights" instead of making a new kind of art.

[Debrel]

I think Ken Levine realized that System Shock 2 was the only thing he had written well (Though I suspect Looking Glass had a lot of involvement with it aswell) so he just decided to copy paste the story for Bioshock. If he tries to write something different trash like Infinite come out.

[Hornedmarten]

here is a great vidoe about the shock games as a whole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DVOw1lIcM