Bioshock - A great place to take the kids
by Chris on August 29th, 2007 @ 11:43 pm - Tag (Game Review) 1 Comment. 43 Views
An underwater city, seamen, big daddy’s, small girls…it wouldn’t be hard to make a 101 jokes about pedophilia in this review, but i shell not stoop so low. No siree. Lets start with the obvious, Bioshock is BEAU-TIF-UL. There is absolutely no denying the artists and level designer’s have put a lot of work into every part of this game. It’s not hard to find your focus shifted to the surrounding environment instead of the splicer that’s running down your ass.
But enough about the graphics, how does the fucker play. To start of with is plays like a lot of other shooters, nothing really to special. But not before long the game offers you the chance to use the environment to your advantage. While you can go through the game with a normal point and shoot style the real fun comes in when you catch a splicer running down the hall towards you. You might notice a patch of water that must be crossed or some a can spilt fuel. Choose the right plasmid and they will go down in some truly horrific ways. I might just be a cruel bastard but i took great pleasure in first setting a splicer on fire and as they ran for water to put the flames out, whipping out my electricity plasmid to fry them as they hit the water…then sometimes (just for fun) freezing them and shattering them with my wrench.
It’s hard to say anything about the story of Bioshock without giving away some pretty cool (if not slightly predictable) plot twists. You’re thrown into the game without really any back story to your character and no more then 2-3 mins into the game you’ve already made a friend and slamming needles into your wrist. It got the initial reaction to the lack of an explanation as to why i was doing this was a sigh *grin*.
The game doesn’t have stage or level bosses as such, going around each level you will come across the little sisters and there guardians the Big Daddy’s. I was a little upset at the lack of diversity of the Big Daddy’s considering the concept art and video we’d seen in it’s early development, but hey-ho. The Big Daddy’s roam the level protecting the little sisters as they collect ADAM from the dead. Bioshock lets you choose wither or not to take on these goliaths. If you do and manage to take one down you are left with a moral decision…the little sister. Do you save her or take her life and grow stronger. Personally…rape the little bitch, she did after all try to kill you (yes, true i shoot first…but i felt threatened 
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Bioshock last about 20 hours, not the longest but it felt about right…after 15 hours or so i did start to get a bit tired of taking down giant pedophiles. But a small side step in the story helped freshen up the gameplay before a great end game. All in all i think Bioshock lived up to it’s hype, it’s a fantastic game and a strong contender for game of the year. If you own a 360 i suggest adding this to your collection. Equally if your PC owner get it, but just make sure you can run the game on it’s high settings. This game deserves to be shown in all it’s glory.
#1 Adrianne Rice
- 12 November, 11:04 PM
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