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BioShock Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: 2K Games
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ESRB Rating: Mature
Platform(s): Xbox 360
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-06-26
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I bought this game for my husband and he likes it alot!! 1 though 5,,,would rate a 4!
Date: 2008-06-24
A Youth Leader's Review
Yes, you heard right. I am a Christian part time-youth leader at my church and I like to play Bioshock. I have to admit, while the game may be a little twisted, demented and crazy at times, it is a load of fun and a very inventive game. You can tell the developers spent a lot of time with this and created a masterpiece.
The game's setting is at the dawn of 1960 in a hidden underwater city called Rapture. Rapture was built as an ideal world by scientist, Andrew Ryan, as a society with no God, govt, or restrictions. This allowed Mr. Ryan to perform experiments on people that would otherwise be forbidden by any surface world country. From the moment the game launches, you are thrown into Rapture and start to see this corrupt civilization begin to decay before your very eyes.
The substance that everyone is trying to get their hands on is called Adam which is supposed to improve the quality of living by killing diseases etc. Anyway, in a Sci-Fi horror flick gone bad, Andrew Ryan's experiment backfires turning the residents into desperate zombie-like creatures called splicers. Eve is the substance used in the game to give your character superhuman powers (electric shock, freeze, etc). There are multiple ways of killing your opponents with powers such as setting them on fire, or killing them with a variety of weapons such as a machine gun and a crossbow. The game does an excellent job of immersing the player in a world and makes you feel like you are in a real life Sci-fi horror movie.
Adam is contained in small girls called Little Sisters. Their guardians are called Big Daddies (a picture of one is shown on the cover). The real moral debate of the game come across when you are able to successfully kill a big daddie (crossbow or exploding shotgun shells highly recommended), you are given a choice. You can either harvest the little sisters and take all their Adam, which will kill them; or you can be a good boy and save them (you only get some of the Adam this way, but you will get rewards later on for saving them, so it equals out). Being that I'm a part time youth leader at my church, the heart in me wanted to save them. I went through the game saving all of them, got some massive acheivement points for doing so, and felt good about myself that I could be the one good source of hope in a world of darkness. Even though its only a video game, I couldn't bring myself to kill the poor little girls. Of course, if you like to play Grand Theft Auto and have no conscience left, you will most likely harvest them.
So do the right thing, do your good deed for the day, and go save a world from destruction. Aside from everything I just said, it will at least provide an excuse to stay off the road due to the insanely high gas prices this summer.
Date: 2008-06-19
Good Graphics Doesn't Always Mean Good Game
When I saw how many people took the time to write a review I had to find out for myself. When the game finally found its way from the rental place into my Xbox 360 the first thing I realized was the graphics, so I was intrigued. Then the game started getting annoying and began to feel like a chore to play. Maybe I'm being naive about the whole thing but I just cant see myself playing this game any longer. It could be worth giving it a try but for the sake of your sanity I would suggest passing this one up.
Date: 2008-06-18
Great graphics, flawed gameplay
I think this game is way over-rated. It has great graphics, lighting, water effects, and is really creepy; however I never bothered to get good at it because I could just respawn each time and keep blasting away since the enemies' health never recovers. Also something about the environment and menu interface just bothered me, which is purely subjective. I guess the game just wasn't for me. Oh, and I never finished it because it kept losing my saved games. However, it's worth renting because the developers did do a good job with it; just not a keeper in my opinion.
Date: 2008-06-09
OMG, this is one freaky little game...
This is not supposed to be a full review - I just wanted to leave a 5-star rating after having played this for several hours. I stopped playing FPS's for a while. The last one was DOOM 3 and Bioshock is even creepier than DOOM. The music, the graphics, the use of sound and shadows and darkness in the game, the change of visuals behind your character's back after having turned around - it's incredible. I'm actually in a constant state of anxiety while playing because it's so creepy. I LOVE IT! I would recommend this to anyone unless you're one of those people that absolutely hates shooters and can't aim a weapon using auto-aim functions to save your life (which my best friend is and all she does is play Oblivion and Guild Wars).
Thumbs up!
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