BioShock - designer interview

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We spotted a lot of light humor as well...

Like the Plasmid movies, yeah. I also like the bit where (spoiler)the crazy women's standing over thebaby carriageand there's a gun in there! They've got a great sense of humor those guys.

There's been a lot of talk in the run-up to release about the Little Sisters and the emotional choices you make.Are there a lot of those 24-style decisions you'll have to make in the game?

McDonagh: This game is all about choice. That's the central and most important principle of this game. I think when dealing with narrative you always have to have gameplay ramifications. If the story has no relevance to gameplay people just don't care about out.

So what we've tried to do is make those choices profoundly powerful and moral. I think that it's easily been the most challenging part of this game; getting that right.

I'm really interested in mature entertainment; I like Taxi Driver, I like The Godfather, so I really want to play games that have really sophisticated moral themes and deal with them in a mature and adult fashion. I don't want to be patronized and deal with this Disney-style formality or what's right and what's wrong.