Original Pitch Document for Bioshock Released

Personally, I find this awesome.  Today irrational games has released what they submitted as the original pitch for Bioshock, including the original back story (a man going to a remote island controlled by cultists to rescue a damsel in distress) and game design choices (bio-modification allowed the player to take on qualities of different forms of sea life).

What you will find is a Bioshock very different than we all came to know and love. The most interesting thing about this is it gives us a glimpse into the ever changing evolution of a game as it goes through the design process.  Often times we won't get exactly what we were expecting. Looking at Bioshock, it looks like they ended up making something very different than they were expecting.

Not that I'm disappointed with what they ended up with...but now I'm really hoping that their next project allows me to become part shark.

-Joseph-

(Hot tip Joystiq)