Gamlet Trivia #27 — 2026-07-29
The answer was BioShock — It is the spiritual successor to System Shock 2, built when the studio couldn't secure the licence..
That day's clues
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- A 2007 release for Xbox 360 and Windows, with PlayStation 3 following a year later.
- A first-person shooter wrapped around a philosophy lecture: splice powers into one hand, keep a shotgun in the other, and tour a leaking undersea utopia.
- Developed by Irrational Games under Ken Levine and published by 2K.
- Three polite words rank among fiction's great twists, and the art-deco city reveal through a bathysphere window is still the best opening in shooters.
- Anagram: HOBO SICK