FiringSquad’s Top 10 PC Games of 2007

The latest list of the “Top 10 PC Games of 2007” comes from FiringSquad, where they’ve given 2K Games’ BioShock top honors.

This was a tough decision all around but at the end of the year one game kept coming back as the most memorable gameplay experience we had had in a long time. Developer 2K Boston/2K Australia (you will always be Irrational Games to us, guys) had created great games before BioShock (System Shock 2, the Freedom Force series) but never really had the mainstream success they deserved. Ironically the team achieved that popular success with perhaps their most personal and original game they have created as we journeyed into the underwater city of Rapture and fought off the many different creatures created by mutating humans with the substance Adam.

Along the way we got into philosophical debates with unseen characters, tried to get a handle of our own moral choices (kill or heal Little Sisters) and overall experienced a single player storyline that, for once, wasn’t predicable or expected. Add those elements with some unique visuals (satirical 1940’s art-deco signs, the ever present water leaks, the Big Daddy) a great voice cast, cool music, the upgradeable weapons and Plasmid powers…all of these elements and more combined to make BioShock unlike any game we have ever played and that’s saying something.

If any game released this year could be called a significant work of art as well as an entertaining first person shooter, BioShock is it.

It’s also worth noting that S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl came in at #7.