2007’s BioShock is on my short list of all time greatest video games ever. Okay, scratch that: BioShock is not a “video game” at all. It is an entirely new style of storytelling narrative. BioShock is high-brow literature all its own. And like the very best of books, you come away from it more enlightened and driven to ponder than you were before you encountered it. In the mind of Chris Knight, BioShock stands on the same level as George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Seriously.

And like those and other classic novels, BioShock is something that many people finish with many different perspectives to wrestle over. My own personal take is that BioShock… and with a theme that continued into its sequel BioShock 2… is a morality tale about what man invariably becomes in the complete and conscious absence of God. Andrew ...