
This blog is titled Artwork so writing about a game seems a bit strange right, wrong! When my boyfriend first told me about Bioshock I wasn't that interested. He was pretty obsessed and spent ages counting down the days till it's release. In his own words this was the game that he was creaming his pants over (hmm men are so crude, though that rant is for another blog.)
Anyway i had seen one of the trailers and thought I would give the game a go. I'm not a huge gamer but the idea interested me. The ideas being a world set in the 1950's style and the soundtrack which was set to include The Andrew Sisters, Billie Holiday, and Bing Crosby. The thing is the trailer Rich actually showed me was one showing the violent side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoYorK3E4aM and didn't really show off the artwork to it's best.
When Rich got the game (on the day of it's release) he couldn't stop playing it. After watching him play for a while I was hooked. This game is amazing and beautiful and I couldn't stop playing it. Now again I realise that this blog promised a look at art and so far all i've done is talk about a vidoe game but before you judge you should watch these video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHY0LnbDDw and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZIr9f-V7kk it still shows some of the fighting but focus on the background. The second video seems to focus on this but it's worth seeing both.
My favourtie pieces of artwork from the game are actually the adverts that you see around. They are beautiful. I have actually been looking for some posters of these but with no luck.
Here are a few examples taken straight from the game, hense the delapidation and water marks you can see.



Here are a few examples of these posters within the game.
There are other posters shown in the game which have a slightly different style to them though i find them equally appealing. These are found on the walls of a training centre for the little sisters (the little girls you can see in the trailers) 

And also when you receive a new plasmid

The actual game graphics are also astonishing. We've just aquired a new HD television and though I thought the graphics were good before they are incredible now. I've found a few shots of the game to give some example
This is one of the first images you see when you start to play. You are in a plane which crashes into the sea. Though this is a still you can see that it is very realsitic. 
A key aspect of the games graphics is that the city is under water so they have spent a lot of time making sure that the water effects are of the best quality

The city is in itself beautiful



While looking for posters I also found this art showing a little sister and her big daddy (you'll understand if you play the game) which I thought was beautiful and had to include.