Some of the people who worked on BioShock have announced a new first-person horror game in which you play a blind woman who investigates a haunted mansion.Perception is the brainchild of Bill Gardner, a 12-year Irrational veteran who worked on everything from SWAT 4 to BioShock Infinite. Gardner worked on the Welcome to Rapture, Medical Pavilion and Fort Frolic levels from the first BioShock. These were considered the more slower-paced, horror-style levels in the game, and it's this specialism that fuelled the creation of Perception.
In Perception you play Cassie, a young blind woman who has suffered visions of a mysterious mansion somewhere in New England. After extensive research she tracks it down: the mansion is an abandoned estate on Echo Bluff, a remote peninsula overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Gloucester, Massachusetts (coincidentally around 10 miles away from Bill's home).
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