BioShock Coming to the iPhone
posted May 29th, 2008 4:09 PM EDT by blakespot in Shooter, iPhone games, iPod touch gamesIn the latest news out of the BREW 2008 conference, it appears that 2K Games’ highly acclaimed title BioShock will soon be landing on the iPhone platform.
Currently available for the XBOX 360 and Windows PC, BioShock is a first person shooter set in a fictional underwater dystopian city during an alternative history 1960. The game received wide praise for its stunning visuals, physics system, and audio quality.
Mobile development house IG Fun is doing the mobile conversion of the original title and plans to bring a version to several mobile platforms, with a 2D rendition in the works for handsets unable to handle a 3D game of this sort. IG Fun CEO Sean Malatesta demonstrated an early 3D demo of the game running on a BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) handset which Pocket Gamer reports “looked spectacular” with impressive visuals that should please even die-hard fans of the console / PC original.
We are wagering that BioShock, ported to the iPhone, taking advantage of all that the iPhone SDK and system hardware offers, should well surpass what is possible on the typical BREW platform. We’re particularly interested to see how IG Fun marries the iPhone’s touchscreen and accelerometer to the game’s control system. Stay tuned for more on this.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Bioshock? Really?
If it’s even a smidgen as good as the console/PC version: wow.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
did i heard it right BIOSHOCK… man it must not be a rumor now i’m pumped up for the June 9 WWDC… Bioshock is a awesome game if will be in iPhone i’m buying it right away even if it costs $20
May 30th, 2008 at 4:44 am
well how about a mac version as well?!?! if they are using xcode then it should be to hard to port to the mac as well, there are a lot more mac users than iphones.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:37 am
@bob
Agreed. A good point indeed!
May 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am
If it gets ported to the iPhone/touch platform, then it’s not to far from a full-tilt Mac OS X version.
Will they do it?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:03 am
anyway, why are there no vids of bioshock on iphone about the net?