Complete BioShock walkthrough covering the Plane Crash and Welcome to Rapture sections, including finding your first plasmid and weapons.
Walkthrough
- 1After a cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically) (an in-game cinematic) of a plane crash, you wake up in the ocean. Avoid flames and swim towards a lighthouse-like structure.
- 2Climb the stairs, enter the structure, and go down the stairs at the back.
- 3Enter the bathysphere (a primitive submarine-type device), pull the lever, and enjoy the ride into Rapture.
- 4Upon arrival, pick up the radio to the left of the door to receive a transmission from Atlas.
- 5Proceed forward from the bathysphere, turn left, and go up the stairs.
- 6Turn left, watch a splicer (an enemy) get hit by a security system.
- 7Jump over debris by pressing Y, then press A to pick up the highlighted wrench.
- 8Use the wrench to smash the debris blocking the door, then crouch under the door by clicking LS (left stick).
- 9A splicer will throw a flaming couch; move out of the way.
- 10Continue up the stairs. The splicer will charge; defeat it with the wrench.
- 11Turn left, head up the stairs on the back wall.
- 12At the top, find a Gatherer's Garden machine with a free Electrobolt plasmid. Pick it up; a cutscene will play.
- 13After waking up with the Electrobolt plasmid, search the room.
- 14Use the Electrobolt plasmid on the sparking lever next to the door to open it.
- 15Walk into the tunnel and go up into the plane wreckage through the emergency exit to continue.
- 16Go to the end of the tunnel and through the Securis door into a large room.
- 17Near a leaking window on the right, find a corpse with an EVE hypo (a health/resource item). Another hypo is in the left wing.
- 18Wait for a splicer to enter the room and kill it, ideally using Electrobolt followed by the wrench.
- 19Continue through the airlock door that opens after the fight.
- 20Head up the stairs into the lobby and kill the flaming splicer.
- 21Go through the sliding doors and take the open elevator up. A quest arrow (a waypoint (a marker on your map you've manually placed as a destination) on your minimap (the small circular map in the bottom-left corner of your screen) or HUD (heads-up display — the on-screen icons showing health, ammo and the minimap)) will now direct you.
- 22Head right and kill the splicer near the stroller.
- 23Pick up the revolver in the stroller.
- 24Walk through the doors into the Kashmir restaurant.
- 25OPTIONAL: Go down the stairs to the right. Kill the splicer trying to get through a door, and the one who opens it to investigate.
- 26Search the room behind the opened door for money and other items.
- 27Return to the main area. Hit the pool of water by the window with Electrobolt to electrocute two splicers, earning the "Toaster in the Tub" achievement for 10 GP.
- 28Find the audio-diary (New Year's Eve Alone) on a table.
- 29Head back up the stairs.
- 30Turn right and enter the bathrooms. Kill any splicers.
- 31In the women's bathroom, a ghost scene occurs. Find the audio-diary (Hole in Bathroom Wall) on rubble at the end.
- 32Enter the men's room and go through the hole in the wall of the last stall.
- 33Cross over a lighting fixture to a balcony.
- 34A radio transmission from Atlas will play about a little sister.
Tips
- Always check every container and corpse for useful items.
- The game environment is dynamic; enemies may not appear in the exact same locations as described.
- Use the Electrobolt plasmid combined with melee attacks (like the wrench) for effective combat against early enemies.
- The quest arrow will guide you to your next objective.
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