{"id":6111,"date":"2010-05-21T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioshock-s-original-concept-pitch-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6111-bioshock-s-original-concept-pitch-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock\u2019s original concept pitch revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irrational Games has revealed the original concept&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/irrationalgames.com\/insider\/from-the-vault-may\/\" target=\"_blank\">pitch documents<\/a> for Bioshock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The concept they had differs pretty significantly from the final product, which made a massive splash back in 2007.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is mention of a &ldquo;seaseed monster&rdquo; (LOL), called &ldquo;Man of War&rdquo;. Did this evolve to become the Big Daddy? There is also talk of nanite controlled weapons and modifications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this idea never made it to the final product: &nbsp;&#8220;BioShock allows players to face each other in Story Based Deathmatch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the original concept pitch, players were going to take on the role of a man named Carlos Cuello, tasked with rescuing a wealthy heiress from an island of cultists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the original concept document <a href=\"http:\/\/irrationalgames.com\/insider\/from-the-vault-may\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?5987-Early-Bioshock-concept-documents-released&amp;p=226491#post226491\" target=\"_self\">Discuss early Bioschock concept pitch<\/a> in the forums<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaweed monsters, cultists, and a man named Carlos Cullo. Sound Familiar? Didn\u2019t think so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}