My uncle sadly took his own life on May 12, 2008, w here after I used video games as a means of escapism, to gain perspective and to press pause on what was an increasingly horrible reality for me at the time. T ying BioShock to Christmas in overarching narrative terms may be a wee bit of a stretch, but in practice, revisiting Rapture now plays a huge part in my build up to the big day itself.
The fact that the events of the original BioShock take place in the wa ke of a New Year’s Eve party places it in the same festive period, wh ich, coupled with the fact that I used Irratio nal Games’ 2007 first-person shooter to get through a particularly difficult holiday season following my uncle’s suicide the fo llowing year, means I now view BioShock through the same tinsel-wrapped lens as many Christmas movie-lovers do Die Hard. Because despite all the violence, the explosions, the hostage situations, and the yippee-ki-yay-ing, the simple fact that J ohn McLane’s debut gun-toting adventure unfolds on Christmas Eve, for many people, makes it a Christmas movie. Listen, I don’t make the rules, I simply follow them. No matter which side of the annual ‘is Die Hard a Christmas m ovie?’ fence you find yourself on, the fact that cinemas up and down the country now a llocate screens to the 1989 Bruce Willis-starring action film at this time of year some 30-o dd years on would suggest that, actually, many people believe it is. It’s a time for asking the same questions of BioShock as a Christmas video game, and… hang on, what? That’s a new one. It’s a time for watching too many novelty television specials that haven’t aged well, and for debating whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. A time for family and for friends, for pulling crackers, wearing silly paper crowns and reading aloud even sillier jokes.
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