Game developer Cloud Chamber has been developing a fourth entry in the “BioShock” franchise for a while now, but next to nothing about the game is known.
Over the weekend video game journalist Colin Moriarty on the Sacred Symbols podcast revealed some apparent details about the new title which doesn’t involve creator Ken Levine who served as director of the first and third game (“Bioshock Infinite”) in the series.
The first two games were set in the 1960s in the Art Deco-stylings of the undersea city of Rapture – a fallen scientific utopia consumed years before by its own ambitions and now the dominion of crazed genetic experiments.
The third was set in the 1910s in the Neoclassical-styled sky city of Columbia, a society founded on theocratic megalomania, fueled by religious dogma, and riddled with issues of bigotry, inequality and corruption.
According to Moriarty, the next entry returns to the 1960s and will take place in the fictional city of Borealis located in the frozen tundra of a polar region. The new title is also expected to have narrative links to previous titles in the series.
“BioShock 4,” which is going by the codename ‘Parkside’, is also reportedly targeting a 2022 release window. Moriarty says:
“I’ve been told that the development team has incredible latitude to get it right. Internally the game is very secret and apparently, totally locked up… the inclination there is that they understand full well that this game will be compared to what Ken Levine does. And by the way, [Take-Two] is also publishing Levine’s next game.”
The “BioShock” series, launched in 2007, remains one of the most lauded modern video game franchises with the first and third titles routinely making ‘Best Games of All Time’ lists.
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