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The following video starts out as an impressive mashup between the opening of the original BioShock and the same scene re-created in Minecraft. Depending on your allegiance to Katniss, it then takes a turn for (your opinion here) as the creators of the map discuss that this Rapture remake is actually a HungerCraft map. Hunger Games-inspired maps have become a popular subculture within the Minecraft community, leading to many livestreamed survival showdowns.
If you want to pretend that somewhere out there exists a remarkable single-player remake of BioShock in the Minecraft engine, you can stop watching around the 2:20 mark.
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Top image via Minecraft.me