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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)
