BioShock Reviews

Una Puta Obra Maestra.

Esto Le Queda Demasiado Corto A Esta Maravilla Del Entretenimiento.

Un Shooter Que Ha Marcado Un Antes Y Un Despues En La Historia De Los Videojuegos.

En Fin, Una Obra De Arte.


(English)
A Fucking Masterpiece.

This Is Too Short To This Entertainment Marvel.

A Shooter That Has Marked A Before And A Later In The History Of Video Games.

In short, a work of art.

A dystopian masterpiece. Set in a world were a Libertarian/Ayn Randian city was established, and you arrive there just in time to see it all come down in flaming ruin. Part of the fun is just getting sucked in and figuring out how all this happened, while just getting glimpses of what once was. Solid FPS shooting with fun and varied Plasmids to mix things up a little.

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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 and was intrigued. Then, after I read a couple of reviews that gave it a 9.9 and a perfect 10, I figured I needed to give it a try. After playing it for awhile, I have 2 words to say “Holy crap!”


This is one of the most engrossing games I’ve ever played. You start the game out out in the middle of the water after an apparent plane crash. You swim to a lighthouse and find this elevator that takes you down to this underwater city. On your way down in the elevator, you learn that this is some sort of city built underwater, where they basically are trying to create the perfect race. When you reach the bottom level, you see this guy walking towards you on the other side of the door, then the lights go out. As they flicker, you see this creature coming up behind him and then the lights go out again. You hear some screaming and some tearing of flesh, and when the lights come back on, the creature is right in front of you on the other side of the glass and that dude that used to be there is a pile of mutilated flesh and blood. As if that isn’t freaky enough, the lights go back off and then you hear scraping coming from above you, as the lights flicker on and off, you see this creature trying to pry his way into the elevator to get to you. For whatever reason, he gives up, the lights come on, the door opens up and a voice tells you it seems clear, and to go ahead and leave the elevator. My first thought was… “why the crap would I want to go out there! Close the door! Get me out of here!”

This is just the very beginning of the game. There’s alot of times it made me jump, which rarely happens with video games. You proceed to find out more and more about this city and it’s creator, and ust how twisted and creepy it all really is. I’ve played for about 3-4 hours now, and I’m still not sure what exactly is going on with this city and all of it’s inhabitants. You continue to get better and better guns (as is the case with all FPS games) and you get a wide variety of different physical and magical powers. You can electrocute people, turn them to ice, among many other wonderfully weird thing. Behind this all, you keep encountering these 2 characters, Little Sister and Big Daddy.

Little Sister seems to be some sort of possessed child that wreaks havoc on the city, and Big Daddy is her protector. And these battles are where some of the games most exciting parts take place. They are incredibly hard to beat, and you usually have to use all of your surroundings, from hacking into the stationary turrets that will now fight for you, to blowing up the gas tanks that have been handily strewn about.

I definitely would recommend this game, but I warn you, don’t expect to just play it and put it down. It WILL suck you in as you will continually be trying to figure out just what the heck is really going on. Go rent/buy it… now.

Rating:

9.9 out of 10 (I just don’t feel a game SHOULD be a perfect 10, but this game would definitely make a strong case)

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 safe distance with it. How they crawl out of the walls, and go in search of corpses, singing and talking to the big daddy that escorts them. I'm not a horror movie lover, but this creation has some beautiful David lynch kind of creepiness over it. Anyway, i had to save all the little sisters in the game, couldn't harvest them for their "Adam". And i was really touched by the end that got me. It wasn't a hard game. But for me this was all about atmosphere. Weird creepiness in another timezone, Twilight Zone. New monsters. New powers. There's some room form improvement, like on the final boss. But all in all absolutely an incredible world and a game that i'd encourage people to play.

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, gameplay, storyline, and just overall entertainment as a game can possibly have in it. I will admit, the game did begin getting really difficult after about an hour of playing time, but that us actually a good thing because most games these days don't take long enough to complete.

I love the ability to upgrade the most unique types of weapons. You can use almost any object to beat the crap out of your enemies, and make them even better by adding things to them. The last game I played that was as unique as this was "Oddworld", and that was made a long time ago. That is a good thing because I personally love odd and unique games. This is a great game that features every great aspect, topped off with a lot uniqueness. I highly suggest buying it.