It certainly isn't the best game of this generation, but Bioshock is almost certainly the most important. As a game it has certainly been surpassed, but its storytelling, art direction, atmosphere and such will no doubt secure its place as a game to be looked back upon in years to come as the progenitor of its kind. Consider the original Super Mario Bros. Sure, it's old, it has been surpassed, its flaws are more apparent than ever, but we'll always know that it was the game that defined the platforming genre. That is what I expect Bioshock will be seen as in the years to come - not the defining FPS (Doom will hold that crown), but the progenitor of seemlessly merging atmosphere and mind-blowing storytelling with videogaming. As it stands, it is one of the finest examples of videogames as an art form.
