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BioShock draws attention for 'killing' little girls

The local Massachusetts paper where Irrational Games is based examines the shock value and moral dilemma of killing characters that resemble young girls in the recently released BioShock for Xbox 360 and PC.

Steve Adams of Quincy's Patriot ledger writes, "[BioShock] is testing the limits of the ultraviolent gaming genre with a strategy that enables player to kill characters resembling young girls."

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thereapersson - 860 days 8 hours ago

1 - GIVE ME A FREAKIN BREAK

Man, people will target ANYTHING nowadays if they can somehow apply their bleeding heart mantra to it.

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1.1 ALI-G | 860 days 7 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Robotz Rule - 860 days 8 hours ago

2 - LOL

It's just a videogame people:)

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Lucidmantra - 860 days 6 hours ago

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just to keep it even... 4/4

ODoyle Rules!!!

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Syko 360 - 860 days 8 hours ago

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That's funny because I rescued all the little girls and was a savior to all those poor children. Check my Achievements. "Little Sister Savior". Classic example of focusing on the negative or "dark side" choice.

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Catastrophe - 860 days 7 hours ago

4.1 - ;)

yeah, but what's really at stake here is my right in real life to give a genetically mutated pre-pubescent girl trying to stir my brains with a stick a wrench to the face.

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Syko 360 - 860 days 7 hours ago

4.2 - lol

Catastrophe, just put the wrench down. A wrench to the face is never the answer. I prefer the gas powered Shotgun =P

*Don't be a slow poke Mr. B, Angels don't wait for slowpokes*
*I see angels Mr. Bubbles..ANGELS!*

On second thought you are right, a wrench to the face it is.

Those little girls where constantly dancing in my surround speakers. They really give me the creeps those little sisters.

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PS360WiiRocks - 860 days 8 hours ago

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WTF!? Their genetically mutated freaks who steal stuff from dead people's bodies through needles!!! PLUS THEY HAVE RED EYES!! If that's what your little girl Mr. "Steve Adams" looks like I feel sorry and scared for you.

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g4n - 860 days 8 hours ago

6 - being a father of a little girl

this is very disturbing... no wonder its only on the 360 as sony has much higher standards. look at GTA for example, a game about being a professional criminal.. 360 version, thats not low-class enough and they offer additional downloads to further your criminal career... talk about low class, last place losers...

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toughNAME - 860 days 8 hours ago

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i hope to god no one bred with you, and that your lying

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snoop_dizzle - 860 days 7 hours ago

6.2 - judging by how immature you are i highly doubt you even

have one. Nice cover up.

But hey maybe you do, but don't get surprised if people doubt you.

I mean can you blame them judging by what you say on this site?

I guess the hooker killing thing is totally ok i guess.

I cant believe i didn't think that. gosh stupid me.

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VirusE - 860 days 7 hours ago

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Give it to him snoop!

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MACHone - 860 days 6 hours ago

6.4 - g4n

Stupidest. Comment. Ever.

Even being a HUGE fan of the PS3, I'm more than willing to defend BioShock on this one. The game is considered by many, myself included, a brilliant work of art and your comment is nothing but biased, ignorant, hypocrisy. If you do have a little girl, and that's a big "if," she'll probably grow up racist, homophobic, and closed-minded. Congrats.

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-_-_-_-_-_-_- - 860 days 6 hours ago

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Hahahaaaaa! g4n was making a phenomenal joke and you guys didn't even understand it! And you're all trying hard to sound "inteligent".

zOMG!

Hahaaa!

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MACHone - 860 days 6 hours ago

6.6 - -_-_-_-_-_-_-

I hope for the sake of coming generations you're right.

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thereapersson - 860 days 8 hours ago

7 - This is almost as bad as the Manchester Cathedral blunder by the Church of England

Claiming it's offensive because you are shooting aliens in a made up storyline in a videogame.

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MK_Red - 860 days 7 hours ago

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God help us all. BioShock is a masterpiece and they just see the girl killing part of it.

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ParaDise_LosT - 860 days 7 hours ago

9 - They arn't real girls though

this is what they look like 1st stage

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jay3 - 860 days 7 hours ago

9.1 - Hmm...

That looks like the thing you have in your hand when you harvest one...

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VirusE - 860 days 7 hours ago

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It's the slug that they implant into the little sisters so they produce adam.

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Rooted_Dust - 860 days 7 hours ago

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This is nothing more that a clever plot point. Why not create creatures that resemble little girls? It's a clever defense mechanism, because it would cause apprehensivness about destroying them. This is also no worse than you would find in some network television shows.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 860 days 7 hours ago

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I wonder what Dr Jack is cooking, probably his own sh!t

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Marceles - 860 days 7 hours ago

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They make it sound like you can pull Manhunt moves to kill the Little Sisters. People really need to do their research on stuff before writing irrelevant facts...

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Wolverick - 860 days 7 hours ago

13 - OMG

It's a game not real people. I'm a father as well but it's called having morals and common sense that you don't practice what you do in video games when your living your day to day life. Dear god get a life.

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VirusE - 860 days 7 hours ago

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The popular news media is sad.

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Kareem - 860 days 7 hours ago

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And now we are waiting for Mr. Thompson to start speaking.

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MACHone - 860 days 7 hours ago

16 - Grr, Articles Like This...

...make me wanna kill small children....

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Wolverick - 860 days 6 hours ago

16.1 - @MAChone

Come on, that's a little harsh ain't it......

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The Wood - 860 days 7 hours ago

17 - loosers

did you see what those little b*tches tried to do to me. Equal opportunities i say.

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Adamalicious - 860 days 7 hours ago

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How else am I supposed to get more ADAM. I need more slots!

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Jdash24 - 860 days 6 hours ago

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hey dude its spelled atom.........adam is someones name

@below.........ive actually only played the demo.........does the game actually spell atom different? thats kinda weird

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MACHone - 860 days 6 hours ago

18.2 - dragon117

Ha, play the game before you try to sound like you know what you're talking about.

Or hopefully, you're kidding.

The substance in BioShock is no way related to "atoms," the sub-atomic particles that make up life. "ADAM," in BioShock, is a type of (fictitious) genetic material found in sea slugs that can alter human DNA.

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Alymon - 860 days 6 hours ago

18.3 - ADAM

I hope you are kidding.

It's ADAM. Think before you speak. The substance being referred to in Bioshock is called ADAM spelled A-D-A-M.

Just like the mana/magic bar is called "EVE".

ADAM and EVE

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Jdash24 - 860 days 6 hours ago

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geez over a little girl.........and i wanted to make a game where you could kill anyone.......i mean anyone, teens, toddlers, babys, elderly, black, white, asian, male, female..............i wonder how people would respond to that?

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SlippyMadFrog - 860 days 6 hours ago

20 - ???

Have anybody else noticed the amount of dirt people are trying to dig up on Bioshock on N4G?

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Adamalicious - 860 days 6 hours ago

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It's just a hot topic right now. Did you miss the 20+ "Bioshock gets a high score" articles? There have been a lot more positive ones than negative ones.

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Alymon - 860 days 6 hours ago

21 - Eh

I can understand people being upset over a game where you maliciously kill little children with no repercussions or consequences. However, there is a very real consequence to kill a little sister. And not only that, one could argue that you are saving the child by killing them because you are stopping the parasite inside them.

True question then becomes... is it amoral to kill the little sister because it is a child.... or is it amoral NOT to kill the little sister because you are allow her to go on suffering...... OOOOOOohhhhhh

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Numark - 860 days 6 hours ago

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the girls stick drills in dead bodies. They should be the true people targeted. They are sick and deserve to die.

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roadkillers - 860 days 6 hours ago

23 - Come on

Take-Two cant get a brake.

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acetw1n - 860 days 6 hours ago

24 - killing little girls ,that aint gangsta at all

what are they running out of ideas or something

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Dr Pepper - 860 days 5 hours ago

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Have you even played the game?

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Keyser - 860 days 5 hours ago

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This is actually the reason I didn't like Bioshock. Everything else to me about this game was excellent except the little girls part.
I don't have kids yet but I will some day and these Bioshock little girls aren't freakish enough. They should have been some little alien or more disfigured or something to give separation from actual little girls. They look like little girls with red eyes. Too close to little girls for me personally.

Don't get me wrong, they have red eyes and look like hell but they still look too close to little girls to me. That doesn't take anything aways from the fact that Bioshock is an amazing game but I would have chosen another route on that aspect. It's going to sell with or without my $60 so it's all good.

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Alymon - 860 days 5 hours ago

25.1 - It's about choices

You don't HAVE to kill them. In fact you are rewarded for not killing them in a number of different ways.

It's a choice. You have a chance in the game to do what you think is right. That's the beauty of it. That's what makes it great.

There's consequences either way you go.

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green_ghost5 - 860 days 5 hours ago

26 - acetw1n

HAHAHAHA....what, are you "gangsta"? hahaha

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acetw1n - 860 days 5 hours ago

27 - man im just saying

killing little girlz just aint my thing,sounds too wierd for me.

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Dr Pepper - 860 days 5 hours ago

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Well, that's sort of the point. It gives you the option to save them...or not (you don't have to kill them). Since they resemble little girls it brings a big moral choice to the game and will make you think more about what you're doing.

Also, usually little girls don't drill holes into peoples bodies with a big needle (like they do in the game).

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THC CELL - 860 days 5 hours ago

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http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

I stand by my comment 20.2

Ha

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