Ken Levine: BioShock Rescued the Shooter

2K Boston's Ken Levine is quoted on
Eurogamer
expressing his opinion that if BioShock had not been successful, it may
have ruined the first-person shooter genre, at least in its high-end
story-driven form. He adds that many of the publishers to whom they pitched the
underwater shooter shared the opinion that it would not be a big seller, and
they repeatedly met with a response that was essentially: "sounds like a great
idea, you'll sell 150,000 units - next." If Ken's opinion on the topic is
correct, then shooter fans should be glad those publishers were wrong, because
he thinks a BioShock flop would have crippled the first-person shooter genre: "I
can pretty much guarantee to you that if BioShock wasn't successful, there never
would have been another game like this."


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