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Everyone who's played Bioshock knows this scene, simply because it is the games most memorable. It is also one of the best twists in gaming for a long time. After being dragged around Rapture searching for your enemy Andrew Ryan, with the help of the enigmatic Atlas, you stumble upon a room with a large board, on which there are pictures of a few key people, with you in the middle, a bunch of lines that connect them with explanatory text and written in large red (blood, most likely) letters is the phrase "Would you kindly". You enter the office, confronting Andrew Ryan, the creator, controller and tyrant of Rapture...and your father.
Your mind apacing, things start to make sense. You start to see why you're here, how you ended up here. Yet, you go confused into the next room, which is Andrew Ryan's office. Inside, he is serenely playing mini-golf, and starts addressing you. He talks of your arrival here, and explains that you hijacked the plane, driven by an internal trigger activated by Atlas. He also explains the phrase: "Would you kindly", which is simply a way to control the player, make him do what you want. Flashbacks of Atlas saying the phrase multiple times occurs and Andrew states: "A man chooses, a slave obeys". After demonstrating the power of the phrase, he orders you to kill him with the golf club he was using just moments ago to see whether the phrase would even drive you to kill your own father. You seize it and, with no control over your body, hit him in the head. He falls down and then slowly rises, muttering "A man chooses, a slave obeys". You hit him again, wounding him further, and he only manages to mumble "A slave obeys". He rises again, to only be hit by you once again. Nearing death's door, he rises for the last time, screaming: "OBEY!" before getting the head of the golf club lodged squarely into his head. He crumples down to the floor, and you hear Atlas ordering you to get out of there. You run over to the self-destruct machine and enter the card key you just received, and turn off the device.
Atlas sighs, and then laughs. His kind Irish accent changes to a cold Bronx accent, and Atlas introduces himself as Frank Fontaine. He reveals himself as the puppet master of your entire journey in Rapture, and then leaves you to die. You feel betrayed, hurt and very alone. You now have only one purpose: take down Frank Fontaine.
I've barely ever seen a more powerful or well-written scene in gaming history. It's surprising, brutal and makes you look at the game in a whole different way. You want to play the game again simply to see all the hidden meanings behind each and every one of your actions. It is truly stunning, and is a showcase of how far depth in gaming can reach.
(Sorry, I was going to put a spoiler tag, but Gamespot said my html wasn't well-formed :cry: )