Gamers have been holding their collective breath for a chance to play BioShock. Ironically, that's what is required of the protagonist at the demo's start--grabbing a lungful of air and struggling to the surface. A hunk of wreckage is shown plummeting down into the oceanic depths, and is also used as a rather slick method of orienting the player's point of view: if the debris is falling one way, the surface must be in the opposite direction. Upon breaking through the watery ceiling, players are greeted by the sight of the sea, blackened and glittering from stars twinkling down from the nighttime sky--on fire. Control over the hero's fate was placed into my hopefully-capable hands at this point, and I quickly looked around for some sign of relative safely.
