InfraSuperman: To say it's similar to System Shock 2 is an understatement. It's pretty much a reskin of that game, albeit with dumbed down gameplay and a much more forgiving difficulty.

Here's an excerpt from Yahtzee Croshaw's review of BioShock:

"But that's the thing; it isn't like System Shock 2, it is System Shock 2. Oh, sure it looks different and it differs in the fine detailing and the character names are changed and shit, but once you strip all that out and the bad guy might as well be Shodan with a waist coat and a copy of Atlas Shrugged. The Psi Powers are now Plasmids, the Hybrids are now Splicers, and the wrench is now...well a wrench, but it's a different kind of wrench. Everything that was cyberpunk then is steampunk now and sometimes it gets a little bit hard to swallow. I wasn't aware that boiled water could form allegiances."

When I first saw that review, I thought he was being hyperbolic, but once I actually got to play System Shock 2, I realized just how accurate it was. Even the central story twist is the same; and the game utilizes the same baffling "two currencies" system (nanites and cyber-modules in SS2; dollars and ADAM in BS).

darthspudius: Don't play it then. I don't think most people care.

skeletonbow: Only by redefining the word plagiarism:

http://www.freedictionary.org/index.php?Query=plagiarism&button=Search

:)

Breja: Autoplagiarism - the act or process of plagiarizing one’s own work.

Breja: Autoplagiarism - the act or process of plagiarizing one’s own work.

skeletonbow: Sure sounds like a made up word to me since it redefines the base word to mean something entirely different. It's also not recognized in the Oxford English Dictionary which is considered authoritative in many countries (including Canada).

Breja: I think the word you are looking for is "autoplagiarism".