News: Lionhead loves BioShock and Portal

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Shining examples of storytelling.

Seminal shooters BioShock and Portal are shining examples of great videogame storytelling and character design, Lionhead audio producer Georg Backer told an audience at the Develop Conference in Brighton this afternoon.

"The big thing that good story experiencing does is it's coherent,? Backer, who's currently putting the final touches to upcoming Xbox 360 and PC RPG Fable III, said.

"One of the games I love with that is BioShock. BioShock is completely coherent, in the art style, the audio, the setting. It's even so coherent that the game mechanics are part of the core story.

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