Before Rapture there was Fairview. This fictional North American city is the setting for SWAT 4, a tactical FPS created by the same studio that made BioShock. That’s right: before dragging us down into the depths of Andrew Ryan’s doomed utopia, Irrational was developing cop games. Not a lot of people remember SWAT 4, which is a shame because it’s one of the best games on PC. But it’s also interesting because, despite the wildly different subject matter, there are traces of BioShock in its design.
