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Andrew Ryan, a man with a vision of utopia, creates the city of Rapture located deep in the Atlantic Ocean. His philosophy involves you being the best that you can be even it means disregarding the idea of God or other people. You play a silent protagonist that survives plane crash at the beginning of the game. You enter a mysterious lighthouse only to be transported to Rapture, a city filled with mystery and horror. In Rapture, you will find plasmids, which is basically a drug that alters your DNA in order to give you supernatural powers that involve things such as electricity, fire, and telekinesis. In order to become even more powerful, you need to obtain ADAM. In the game you will encounter enemies such as splicers (ADAM addicts), Little Sisters (ADAM gatherers), and Big Daddies (Guardians of Little Sisters). Combat is pretty solid. The controls were good and battles were very challenging. This is a First Person Shooter that requires you to think. You cannot gun down everybody easily like in Call of Duty. The graphics for this game are amazing especially the water. This should be expected since it is running on the Unreal Engine 3, which is the same graphics engine that is responsible for Gears of War's graphics. I did have a few problems with the game. The hacking mini-game is frustrating. If you fail a hacking mini-game, you either lose health or alert security. Another problem is the reloading animation. In the game, you can use different types of ammunition for your guns. However, the animations are too long and it is easy to get killed in combat while reloading. Another problem is that the wrench is probably the most useless weapon in the game. You barely do any damage with it. Also, if you are into games with multiplayer, then prepare to be disappointed because this game does not have multiplayer. Overall, this is a very good game. However, it does have its flaws.Read full review
This game is not your typical shooter and is just a bit creepy. I wouldn't recommend it for small children. I actually played Bioshock 2 first and loved it. I am only about 15% into Bioshock but it is proving to be every bit as good as 2. I highly recommend it.
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This is an excellent shooter with a very rich story-line. The game is approaching 10 years old and has aged quite nicely. I would put it in that Doom or GoldeneEye category for being a revolutionary shooter. Very clean feeling controls with almost an arcade simplicity. It's hard to stop playing once you get started.
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After hearing that this game was a gift from the gods bestowed upon the mud-caked humanity meant to bring forth from their ignorance into a golden age of enlightenment, I became skeptical. Still, since everyone not speaking to me through the lens of a magazine still raved about it, I plunked my dollars down to see what all the damn fuss was about. Now, after playing Bioshock, I can say that I honestly did not expect the game to be so powerfully mediocre. I was expecting something really good or really bad, and I am truly amazed that it stuck so ardently to the absolute middle of the ground. Bioshock is the unsweetened decaf of video games. It is a first person shooter, and so I was presented with guns and what to use them on early in the game. And you eventually get about eightish guns, which can be upgraded using the game's much vaunted 'role-playing game style capability progression' system. Sort of. Apparently, you upgrade guns by taking them to vending machines, which can only be used once per machine. By the way, I hope you enjoy vending machines, because you're going to be spending a lot of time at them, as they're the place to get most items and 2/3 of your ammo. Then there's the 'magic system,' which involves genetically altering yourself to get cool powers, like the ability to shoot bees out of your hands. Again, not making it up. You get the power to shoot bees from your hands. Or hurl brainwashing juice. Or set things on fire. While neat, they're all pretty much rubbish, as there is virtually no reason to switch away from the electricity power, which does more for getting you through the game than all the other powers combined, and does it more efficiently than any others. The game also gets extremely stingy with EVE, the juice that makes your powers work, as you progress. I'm sure some of my colleagues in the reviewing business would take the opportunity to rave about the game's graphics, but I feel obligated to point out that while the game does look good, that is usually a liability. The enemies move in a strange, wooden sort of way that makes it hard to believe that they are human, or were even once human. The only exception is the enemies that appear on the cover, the Big Daddies, who actually move with some degree of fluidity and like the huge, unstoppable juggernauts they're supposed to be. Though truthfully they're pretty much not -- you can find or make the ammunition that renders them a fight of mild difficulty at best, and that's assuming you don't just slap them with the electricity power and watch them twitch as you pump them full of bullets. Another relentlessly overhyped aspect was the story. The story, like most games these days, is not interactive in the slightest, and is mostly played out in optional tape recordings you listen to. In several places, you will be clearly, obviously prevented from doing something so that the story can be played out in front of you, which has an effect kind of like taking the concept of interactivity and grinding beneath a hobnailed boot. I would expect a game yakked about as much as this one to at least respect the conceits of video gaming, rather than choosing to go around them like they were an obstacle. All in all, the game has this 'What would you get if you crossed Halo with Fable?' vibe, which makes me wonder, in turn: 'Why would you want to mix two utterly mediocre games together and expect the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts?'Read full review
I played this game before on the Xbox 360 but now I have a PS3 and I never beaten this game, just had it on the backburner but after picking it back up again, I am so in love with this game and the world that was crafted for it. 10 out of 10. We need more Bioshocks and less COD.
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