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Reading Is Fundamental
Wall Street and the Tea Party make a city under the sea and together shut themselves off from all other human contact. Hilarity ensues.
So I finally finished Bioshock Rapture. It was an enjoyable experience. Pretty much the whole book was told from McDonough's perspective, he's kind of like Rapture's chief engineer, and he's very likeable so there's someone to root for. All in all, I'd recommend it.
The only things wrong with the book was it sort of felt like the writers very, very carefully read the Gamefaqs walk-through of Bioshock and Bioshock 2 instead of actually playing the game. They got the audio diaries word for word, but then you get weird stuff, like a part where a Little Sister is 'gazing up at Tannenbaum with her big dark eyes' which is just... what. Not exactly dark, those eyes. Even a look at the box the game comes in would tell you that. Or splicers using Teleport. Just that sort of thing, little factual details, if you can overlook things like that, it's ok.
Also, Bioshock 2 gets the really short end of the stick. Dr. Lamb and Simon Wales appear, along with Poole, but Johnny Topside and Eleanor are barely mentioned, and the authors seem to have forgotten Dionysis Park gets flooded while Lamb's in Persephone. The characters from the DLC aren't included at all.
One interesting thing - Dr. Tannenbaum hooks up with Frank Fontaine. I remembered that portrait from the second game, I always wondered who the woman with Fontaine and the little kid was, I guess it was her.
So I finally finished Bioshock Rapture. It was an enjoyable experience. Pretty much the whole book was told from McDonough's perspective, he's kind of like Rapture's chief engineer, and he's very likeable so there's someone to root for. All in all, I'd recommend it.
The only things wrong with the book was it sort of felt like the writers very, very carefully read the Gamefaqs walk-through of Bioshock and Bioshock 2 instead of actually playing the game. They got the audio diaries word for word, but then you get weird stuff, like a part where a Little Sister is 'gazing up at Tannenbaum with her big dark eyes' which is just... what. Not exactly dark, those eyes. Even a look at the box the game comes in would tell you that. Or splicers using Teleport. Just that sort of thing, little factual details, if you can overlook things like that, it's ok.
Also, Bioshock 2 gets the really short end of the stick. Dr. Lamb and Simon Wales appear, along with Poole, but Johnny Topside and Eleanor are barely mentioned, and the authors seem to have forgotten Dionysis Park gets flooded while Lamb's in Persephone. The characters from the DLC aren't included at all.
One interesting thing - Dr. Tannenbaum hooks up with Frank Fontaine. I remembered that portrait from the second game, I always wondered who the woman with Fontaine and the little kid was, I guess it was her.