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MRQE's database of movies includes classic and modern films, foreign and domestic films, major releases and independent films. [3] MRQE also provides information for movies in theaters, movies out on DVD/Blu-ray; plus movies shown on AMC , Turner Classic Movies (TCM), and Independent Film Channel (IFC) channels.
Rapture is a fictional city-state in the BioShock series published by 2K Games. It is an underwater city that is the main setting for the games BioShock and BioShock 2 . The city also briefly appears in BioShock Infinite , and is featured in its downloadable content , Burial at Sea .
BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K.The first game in the BioShock series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms in August 2007; a PlayStation 3 port by Irrational, 2K Marin, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes was released in October 2008.
BioShock: Rapture is a 2011 science fiction novel written by John Shirley, published by Tor Books in the United States and by Titan Books in the United Kingdom. Rapture forms part of the BioShock retrofuturistic media franchise created by Ken Levine and published by 2K Games and developed by several studios, including Irrational Games and 2K Marin.
BioShock is a retrofuturistic video game series created by Ken Levine, published by 2K and developed by several studios, including Irrational Games and 2K Marin.The BioShock games combine first-person shooter and role-playing elements, giving the player freedom for how to approach combat and other situations, and are considered part of the immersive sim genre.
Andrew Ryan's early history draws inspiration from the early life of Ayn Rand.Like Rand, he was born in the Russian Empire to a middle-class Russo-Jewish family. [9] In BioShock 2, it is revealed that he was originally named Andrei, [10] and the novel BioShock: Rapture provides his birth name as Andrei Rianofski, hailing from a village near Minsk in modern-day Belarus. [11]
During Rapture's height Sinclair Solutions was one of the city's most successful businesses, thanks to his strong links to Andrew Ryan. Towards the end of BioShock 2, Sofia Lamb captures Sinclair and transforms him into the last of the Alpha Series, Subject Omega, whom Subject Delta must kill to gain access to the submersible to exit Rapture ...
The Luteces also appear in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea, where it is revealed that they are responsible for orchestrating certain events, such as the Vox Populi 's violent revolution led by Daisy Fitzroy in the base game's story, the rehabilitation of a repentant Comstock who lives in a universe where the underwater city of Rapture exists ...