I gave Bioshock a rent at my local video store seeing as I had never played it, and was hearing a lot great things about it from critics and my friends. I heard it had the best storyline of any game, and some other pretty interesting things.
The verdict is a positive one. I was very surprised and impressed at how good this game really is. It puts up some of the best graphics, gamepl... read more
Bioshock is a great game. It actually had me quite scared for the first few hours playing. I wasn't sure what to expect, and even later on i still got shivers from those splicers that walk the ceilings. And I can't even describe the panic that struck me the first time i got charged by a big daddy. I forgot what the weapon was with the zoom ability, but i've looked at little sisters a lot from a sa... read more
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I really didn’t know much about Bioshock when it came out. I’d seen the commercial and glanced at a couple of previews, but that was pretty much it (I knew so little about the game, I thought you played as the dude on the front cover, with the auger hand). I downloaded and played the demo on Xbox Live an... read more
Description:BioShock is considered the spiritual successor of System Shock 2 and mixes first-person shooting with role-playing elements. In the year 1960 a plane crashes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with you as the only survivor. You have the apparent luck of resurfacing in front of what looks like a door to an underwater complex. Without BioShock is considered the spiritual successor of System Shock 2 and mixes first-person shooting with role-playing elements. In the year 1960 a plane crashes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with you as the only survivor. You have the apparent luck of resurfacing in front of what looks like a door to an underwater complex. Without hesitating, you enter the door and soon you are taught that this is the city of Rapture, a paradise of free will build in the 40s by Andrew Ryan, visually and socially inspired by objectivism of Ayn Rand. However, even before you assimilate all this new information, the descent to this supposed paradise ends and you only see ruins and chaos. Learning about the destiny of Rapture will be now your main motivation while you have to survive to the horrors that the free will can create.
A sci-fi plot based on a social system that fails is not the only thing BioShock shares with it predecessor, as many features of its gameplay and even elements of Rapture are easily recognizable in SS2. Bioshock is an FPS, but with many elements that make the gameplay more complex than just shooting your enemies while advancing in the game. In addition to the usual, and not so usual, fire and melee weapons, the main character can use "plasmids", genetic tools created in Rapture that can give superpowers, like telekinesis or fire throwing, to those who use them. The enemies are also more complex, in the sense that they do not always go after your character to kill him. Most of them are inhabitants of Rapture, victims of the bizarre experiments performed in the city and empowered themselves with plasmids. There are also security devices that you can use for your advantage or creatures with symbiotic relationships like the "Big Daddies" and the "Little Sisters" and many others to be discovered. All of these features and some abilities of interaction with the surrounding give the player many ways of facing each situation.
The entire game takes place in an underwater setting using an improved Vengeance engine, a heavily modified version of UnrealEngine3. Rapture is in ruins, you can see that everywhere you go and water is the key to all this. Water is what surrounds you and the city all the time and what slowly devours it with you inside. The water also helps building the dark atmosphere of Rapture the same way genetic engineering (and underwater architecture) helps establishing the sci-fi bases of the plot. Both, the setting and the plot are completed with many 50s furniture and propaganda, à la the Fallout series.... (more)(less)
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Big Daddy
Bioshock, when it was released, created ripples (no pun intended) across the world. One of the reasons for the ripples was this character, Big Daddy, silent adversaries that are as strong as the front part of a 1880's train.
There are hundreds of characters who are designed brilliantly, but there's something about this character that caught my eye. Is he Pyramidhead all over again? Doomed to live in pain forever? Doomed to wander for eternity?
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"Release Date: August 21, 2007 (NA)
Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: 2K Marin
Genre: Shooter - First-Person
I was a new owner of an Xbox 360 when BioShock came out, and looking for some exclusive titles to warrant my purchase of the system. I got BioShock, knowing full well that I generally get bored with first-person shooters....And popped it in, pretty much ready to dismiss it. Next thing I knew, several hours had gone by, I needed to get to sleep before work, and I was still having trouble putt"
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Bioshock is probably the most beautifully grim games I have ever played. As well as being beautifully grim, it is a damn fine first person shooter and my favourite action-horror game. Has a very interesting set up, gorgeous environments, intense and claustrophobic atmosphere, a good mixture of gun-play and scientific powers, and a cryptic and eerie storyline. The flow of the gameplay tests your moral standing and fully affects the outcome of the game and how the environment and characters chan"
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...2K's steampunk Objectivist philsophyfest BioShock. Now, there's a lot of criticism that can be leveled at : he's a bitch, he's an alcoholic, he has some very strange ideas of how to treat small children. But all of this is countered by the fact that he has a magical hand that shoots bees. And that's why he takes the prize. Because no matter who you are, the moment you're compared to a magical hand that shoots bees you're going to fucking lose. - Yahtzee Croshaw"
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