I think I might make this a regular topic on here. The “You know what would be cool” posts. Where I just discuss a cool idea that is somewhat game related.
Anyways, You know what would be cool? A Bioshock Ride. Yeah, like an amusement park ride. Done in the same way as “Finding Nemo” the ride at Disneyland. “Miles, how did you come up with such an awesome idea?” You might be asking yourself…Well, I was at Disneyland with my lady friend over the weekend and she had never been on the Finding Nemo ride (Or the Submarine ride as it is known to everyone over the age of 20 when we remember what was there originally) Well, as we were riding it, I started to think about how awesome it would be if either Six Flags or like Universal Studios made a theme park ride just like Bioshock. (I mean, they are making a movie, so if it was made by parent company Universal it could be totally do-able) It wouldn’t be very hard.
First off, make the Queue line, look something like the old lighthouse in the first game, where you start at the top of a hill or something and then spiral stairs in to a dark cave with the Bathysphere. These are the vehicles that you will be put into, All the ride employees are dressed in tux and dresses as you look around and see that it is New Year’s. Set dressing would include bottles of champagne all around, cake, streamers, and various good times. Once you are loaded into the bathysphere you are then closed up and a familiar voice comes over the intercom. Andrew Ryan, welcoming you into the world of Rapture. The audio sounds a little outdated and muffled, as Mr. Ryan is done introducing himself and his idea to you, the walls open up to the opening shot of Rapture, where the bathysphere goes by the various sea life and even ADAM leaches and pulls up next to a docking station.
Something hits the bathysphere, knocking it off course and you are alerted by Atlas that part of the sea wall has fallen and you need to go to a different docking station. You start to go around the building and hear the sound of machine guns firing as Atlas tells you that the splicers have formed a mob and are trying to take over Ryan. You see a few shadows get mowed down by turrets and flying security bots. A Big Daddy surprises you as he is out on the sea floor and you pass by him while he is repairing a whole in the wall.
You come across a blown out and sunken building and it is the only way to get to where you need to go, so you proceed slowly with the lights dimmed down and enter a ball room of a hotel. Everything is eerie as you see floating bodies pass by the window and are moved as you go through the hall. A loud sound happens and you a Big Sister attacks you… you start moving faster and try to get rid of it. A Big Daddy is seen in the next building and put the little sister into the vent hold and rushes out and attacks the Big Sister. Atlas opens up the docking bay doors. He tells you that this is the back entrance to Ryan’s office and that the mob is ready to confront Ryan. As they try to break down the door to his office, a group of splicers come in and blow the docking bay. You find that Rapture is falling down all around you and that you have been damaged and have to return to the lighthouse to repair your vessel. A repair crew helps you out of the bathysphere and as you walk out of the ride you see Big Daddy suits on the other side across from being helped out. You walk out as you hear “Beyond The Sea” playing in the background.
That would be cool.
You come back around to the lighthouse and are pulled into a bathysphere repair docking bay.