20 Iconic Gaming Moments You Must See Before You Die

6. Welcome To Rapture/Would You Kindly? - BioShock

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To be honest, BioShock is such a landmark game for the entire games industry that I'd have no trouble replacing every entry in this article with an iconic moment that I experienced within the walls of Rapture.

So immersive is its world design and atmosphere, that you'd probably need to make a point of leaving the house after a session, just to remember you're not actually living underwater.

But that's just the city itself. The most memorable legacy that ensures it'll be mentioned for decades to come is the total subversion of player expectation with the "Would you kindly?" twist. A lot of people were expecting Ken Levine's second follow-up - BioShock Infinite - to have the same sort of iconic moment sewn into its code when it released, and well, it didn't, but that's okay.

The original BioShock's design is masterful, and not something easily replicated.

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Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.