Anyone played Bioshock yet? This game is pretty f'ed up, and it has a pretty twisted story. I kind of like it though, because it's a shooter where you can upgrade yourself, and the story has kind of a philosophical edge to it -
I'll try to give a spoiler-free intro:
The story takes place in 1960. A billionaire industrialist named Andrew Ryan has built his dream city, starting what seems like in the 1930s, and it's sitting at the bottom of the ocean. The whole place is just stacked to the gills with 1930's art-deco design, advertisements, and technology.
Andrew Ryan's agenda was to make a perfect sort of Objectivist world, a place where Ayn Rand would have died of joy. It's a place where rich people are allowed to do whatever they want, and no one tells them that they have to be morally responsible. As a way to encourage the whole "Atlas Shrugged" mythos, they get into genetic modification and start mass marketing it to all the city's inhabitants. But things go terribly wrong when all the gene splicing makes people go a bit crazy, and by 1960 the utopian dream has taken a great big dump.
That's where you come in. This game is incredibly stylish, pretty, and surprisingly full of difficult moral decisions. You can shoot fire from your hands, or bullets from a Thompson sub-machine gun. There are some wild plot twists, and the game never fails to explore a fun idea. Every time you find yourself thinking, "wouldn't it be fun to...?" the game will probably have you do it at some point.
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