My Review - Bioshock
Bioshock, a game set in 1960 in Rapture, an underwater city built by a crazy millionaire, let me start this off by saying this game is probably the creepiest game I've ever played. Its not scary, just really, really creepy. The game starts off with a crash (literally) and you find yourself on a ride to Rapture, at first it seems that all is well but once you get into Rapture you find that the city is in the middle of a civil war, the enemies in Bioshock are your standard gunner, grenade thrower, magic user, and pipe swinger.
The difference between Bioshock's enemies and other game villains is that the enemies you fight in Bioshock are actually citizens of Rapture, just really hopped up on 'Adam' (Sea-Crack). The thing that makes them monsters isn't the fact they're deformed, its their actions, Bioshock really tries to tell you that throughout the entire game. Another enemy that sets Bioshock aside from other games is the Big Daddy. These behemoths can kill you faster than you can say "What was that noise?". Unfortunately thats only true on the highest difficulty, while challenging at first Bioshock gets too easy later in the game once you acquire weapon upgrades and new/stronger plasmids.
Another element that adds to the 'uniqueness' of Bioshock are the Little Sisters, guarded by the Big Daddy's they are the main source of Adam, the thing you need to buy all plasmids, once the Big Daddy is defeated you can either kill the Little Sister for maximum upfront Adam or you can save her for more overall Adam and an achievement if your playing on the Xbox 360 version. Some parts of the game will change depended on your choice. Also depending on what you choose you'll either get a good ending or an evil ending. I personally liked the good ending a lot more.
The graphics in Bioshock aren't the best I've ever seen, but they are amazing, I spent about half an hour of my first playthrough just walking around looking at everything. The graphics really make you feel like you are in an actual underwater city, if you step into a spray of water water will trickle down your screen, if you set a group of chairs ablaze with a plasmid they will light the surrounding area, which is actually a good idea for most of this game because this game is DARK.
When you have the above plasmid selected a heat wave and small fire will radiate from your hand. When using an Ice plasmid spikes of ice shoot through your hand, which in turn causes your hand to bleed.
The story in Bioshock isn't one of the best, but it will keep you interested for hours on end. You'll want to play through multiple times to see the subtle changes from killing or saving Little Sisters.
About three quarters of the way through the game the story changes quite a bit, I won't spoil it, but it changes the feel of the game somewhat.
Sound design is excellent, enemies will talk to themselves or others, water will sound different depending on the distance from you, speed at which it is flowing, and how much of it there is. Even vending machines sound true to life, Big Daddy's make probably the most noticeable sound in the game.. a low rumbling noise. The voice overs in Bioshock are also excellent, with every character sounding like a real person.
All in all, this game is fun. Go pick it up if you're into FPS/RPG's. It's a 8/10 in my book.
The difference between Bioshock's enemies and other game villains is that the enemies you fight in Bioshock are actually citizens of Rapture, just really hopped up on 'Adam' (Sea-Crack). The thing that makes them monsters isn't the fact they're deformed, its their actions, Bioshock really tries to tell you that throughout the entire game. Another enemy that sets Bioshock aside from other games is the Big Daddy. These behemoths can kill you faster than you can say "What was that noise?". Unfortunately thats only true on the highest difficulty, while challenging at first Bioshock gets too easy later in the game once you acquire weapon upgrades and new/stronger plasmids.
Another element that adds to the 'uniqueness' of Bioshock are the Little Sisters, guarded by the Big Daddy's they are the main source of Adam, the thing you need to buy all plasmids, once the Big Daddy is defeated you can either kill the Little Sister for maximum upfront Adam or you can save her for more overall Adam and an achievement if your playing on the Xbox 360 version. Some parts of the game will change depended on your choice. Also depending on what you choose you'll either get a good ending or an evil ending. I personally liked the good ending a lot more.
The graphics in Bioshock aren't the best I've ever seen, but they are amazing, I spent about half an hour of my first playthrough just walking around looking at everything. The graphics really make you feel like you are in an actual underwater city, if you step into a spray of water water will trickle down your screen, if you set a group of chairs ablaze with a plasmid they will light the surrounding area, which is actually a good idea for most of this game because this game is DARK.
When you have the above plasmid selected a heat wave and small fire will radiate from your hand. When using an Ice plasmid spikes of ice shoot through your hand, which in turn causes your hand to bleed.
The story in Bioshock isn't one of the best, but it will keep you interested for hours on end. You'll want to play through multiple times to see the subtle changes from killing or saving Little Sisters.
About three quarters of the way through the game the story changes quite a bit, I won't spoil it, but it changes the feel of the game somewhat.
Sound design is excellent, enemies will talk to themselves or others, water will sound different depending on the distance from you, speed at which it is flowing, and how much of it there is. Even vending machines sound true to life, Big Daddy's make probably the most noticeable sound in the game.. a low rumbling noise. The voice overs in Bioshock are also excellent, with every character sounding like a real person.
All in all, this game is fun. Go pick it up if you're into FPS/RPG's. It's a 8/10 in my book.
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