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    This document discusses the themes of free will and choice in the video game Bioshock through analyzing the game's narrative and gameplay mechanics. It references the game's dystopian setting of Rapture, a failed underwater city, and quotes from the game's antagonist Andrew Ryan about how our choices ultimately define us. Several sources are cited that analyze Bioshock and discuss its exploration of themes relating to dystopia, agency, and the relationship between player choice and narrative experience in video games.

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    A Man Chooses, A Player

    Obeys
    Newton Cheng
    Rhetoric of the Natural and Beyond

    Ryans Death
    https://youtu.be/cZSuBmROSL8?t=2m15s

    http://orig05.deviantart.net/d3bb/f/2012/
    204/9/d/andrew_ryan_by_madlittleclown
    -d58a51u.jpg

    http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/bioshock/images/a/a
    9/Bioshock_rapture-wide.jpg/revision/latest?

    http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/bioshock/imag
    es/0/0f/Would_You_Kindly.png/revision/latest?

    FREE WILL
    The power of an individual to make free choices, not determined
    by divine predestination, the laws of physical causality, fate, etc.
    - Oxford English Dictionary

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

    FREE WILL

    EXTERNAL
    SYSTEMS

    https://gameyap.files.wordpress.com/2013/1
    0/x-3.jpg

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    ?

    Choice
    Insights

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    Y
    E
    =

    GAMEPLA + RULES + NARRATIV


    Y
    E
    =

    PLAY
    EXPERIENCE
    the mechanisms and consequences of the players interactions
    with the game

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    ?

    Choice
    Insights

    GAMEPLA + RULES + NARRATIV


    Y
    E
    =

    PLAY
    EXPERIENCE
    the mechanisms and consequences of the players interactions
    with the game

    FREE WILL

    EXTERNAL
    SYSTEMS

    GAME WORLD

    ACTION

    CHOICE

    REAL WORLD

    ACTION

    CHOICE

    FREE WILL

    EXTERNAL
    SYSTEMS

    EXTERNAL
    SYSTEMS
    FREE WILL

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

    Dystopi
    a

    BioShock
    Choice
    Insights

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    5/59/Welcome_to_Rapture_Door.png/revision/latest?
    cb=20091125232414

    We all make choices, but in the


    end, our choices make us.
    - Andrew Ryan

    Bibliography
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    Freedom in Video Gaming. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 2(1), 2738.
    http://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.2.1.27_1
    Booker, M. Keith. "On Dystopia." Critical Insights: Dystopia. Ipswich: Salem,
    2013. 1-15. Print.
    Aldred, Jessica, and Brian Greenspan. A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys: BioShock
    and the Dystopian Logic of Convergence. Games and Culture 6.5 (2011) : 479496.
    Nyman, E., and R. L. Teten. Lost and Found and Lost Again: Island Utopias and
    Dystopias in the BioShock Series. Games and Culture (2015) : 1-15.
    Onyett, Chris. (2007, August 16). Bioshock Review [Review of the video game
    Bioshock]. IGN. Retrieved from http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/08/16/bioshockreview-5

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