<sod>''BioShock'' is set in 1960 in the underwater city of Rapture; the city's history is mostly revealed via audio recordings the player can collect during the game.<ref name="bit-tech"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=138851|title=Xbox Preview: BioShock|publisher=CVG|date=May 3, 2006|accessdate=February 5, 2008}}</ref> Rapture was planned and constructed in the 1940s by [[Objectivism (Ayn Rand)|Objectivist]] [[business magnate]] [[Andrew Ryan (BioShock)|Andrew Ryan]] who wanted to create a [[utopia]] for society's elite to flourish outside of government control. Scientific progress greatly expanded, including the discovery of the genetic material "ADAM" created by [[sea slug]]s on the ocean floor. ADAM allows its users to alter their DNA to grant them super-human powers like [[telekinesis]] and [[pyrokinesis]].<eod>
<sod>''BioShock'' is set in 1960 in the underwater city of Rapture; the city's history is mostly revealed via audio recordings the player can collect during the game.<ref name="bit-tech"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=138851|title=Xbox Preview: BioShock|publisher=CVG|date=May 3, 2006|accessdate=February 5, 2008}}</ref> Rapture was planned and constructed in the 1940s by [[Objectivism (Ayn Rand)|Objectivist]] [[business magnate]] [[Andrew Ryan (BioShock)|Andrew Ryan]] who wanted to create a [[utopia]] for society's elite to flourish outside of government control. Scientific progress greatly expanded, including the discovery of the genetic material "ADAM" created by [[sea slug]]s on the ocean floor. ADAM allows its users to alter their DNA to grant them super-human powers like [[telekinesis]] and [[pyrokinesis]]. To protect Rapture, Ryan imposed a law that no contact with the surface world was allowed.<ref>{{cite journal |last= John |first=Lanchester |date=January 1, 2009 |title=Is It Art? |url= http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/john-lanchester/is-it-art  |journal= [[London Review of Books]] |publisher=Nicholas Spice |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=18-20 |doi= |access-date= October 3, 2016}}</ref><eod>