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Top 10 Video Games

By Lev Grossman
BioShock
Company: 2K Games
Platforms: Xbox 360, PC
ESRB Rating: Mature
$49.99 to $59.99
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#5. BioShock

Absolutely the best action-role playing game set in a ruined art-deco underwater city that you'll play this year. Beautifully written and acted, BioShock tells a rich, weird story about a metropolis beneath the waves, ruled by an Orwellian madman whom you must assassinate, through the medium of a complex combat system that involves modifying your own DNA in real-time to give yourself a rotating arsenal of superpowers.

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