BioShock (Xbox 360)

Advantages: Beautiful environments - Rich gaming experience - Wonderful plot
Disadvantages: Casts practically every other game in the genre in a bad light

...to get it right because Bioshock is a game which, nowadays at least, only comes around every so often. In my previous drafts I got some considerable distance down the page describing in great detail the underwater city of Rapture. I wanted to put you as the reader right into its crumbling art-deco environments, describe every ambient sound, convey how beautifully the Atlantic above seeps in from every fault in its failing architecture. I also wanted ...
...out, you'll have to play Bioshock to truly understand. So I'll try and get to the point… Created at the culmination of the second world war, Rapture was intended as a haven for the greatest minds in industry, science and art. This submerged metropolis was a world where neither the ruling elite nor religious morality could stifle their progress - and where the simple minds of the masses could not cloud their thinking or unfairly benefit from their ... Read review

Advantages: Intriguing story, impeccably told
Disadvantages: Hardly Challenging

Despite its lack of commercial success, the team behind "System Shock 2" ventured yet another attempt to add personality to First Person Shooters. The result is "BioShock" and it interestingly manages to simultaneously be both innovative and widely appealing. Besides allowing you to shoot fireballs and hack flying death-bots, "Bioshock"'s greatest draw is the game subtly played inside the player's mind. ***The Story*** In response to World World ...
...an underwater city designed to be an utopia. Unhindered by bureaucracy, free of morals, a man was only limited by his dreams. Science flourished, most remarkably genetic engineering, with "plasmids" allowing ordinary men to be extra-ordinary. Super-human agility and empathic links to machinery are just a plasmid away! Power, however, corrupts. Indeed, when your avatar finds an unlikely refuge in Rapture after his plane crashes, the city couldn't ... Read review

Advantages: great story and unique elements to first person shooter
Disadvantages: a bit short in all and occasionally buggy

...are several mechanical elements to bioshock and the game is rather inovitive in the way to hack something isnt just as simple as pression a button and waiting, a mini game opens up and you are set the task of connecting pipes from one spot to another, much like a few flash made internet games. This is good and an original way to look at this, but at times can become incredibly annoying, especially if like myself, you are very bad at it. STORY The ...
...and brilliant plots i have ever witnessed in a game. It begins with the character you play in a plane, that later appears to crash. as a survivor you swim towards what appears to be a light house. It leads to an under sea city known as Rapture. This city was built by the freedom obsessed Andrew Ryan. He created Rapture as a way to get away from the rest of civilisation, and truely be free. along with various scientists he developed Adam (the stuff ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic graphics & sound, great playability, very fun, unique monsters.
Disadvantages: Not much really.

Bioshock is an First Person Shooter game about the underwater city of "Rapture". In this 60's style city all hell has broken loose. A technological advance in Rapture has allowed it's residents to alter their DNA in order to give themselves unique abilities and skills. This, coupled with physique altering surgery, has destroyed the minds of Rapture's residents. On a flight over the Atlantic Ocean Jack (the player controlled character) finds himself ...
...enemies. The gameplay of Bioshock is unique. The player must adapt his character with "plasmids" in order to aquire brand new abilities to fight foes to the best of their ability. Abilities include shooting lighting and fire from your hands, as well as passive abilities such as becoming better at computer hacking and becoming stronger in general. The enemies in the game are also very good, and are some of the coolest looking in any Xbox game. The ... Read review

Advantages: Stunning visuals, gameplay, story, weapons, use of sound.
Disadvantages: Not out yet!

...same weapons etc etc. Bioshock seems to have gone a long way to tackling many of these areas missing from other titles. I will do my best to cover some of these areas for you here. Let us begin with the story line, the header paragraph at the top of this page says most of it, the gaem starts with your character on a smoke filled plane cruising across the ocean, a present from your parents in one hand and a cigarette in the other, (It is set in the ...
...into the ocean with the scream of the passenger only drowned out by the screams of the failing engines, it has to be said at this point there is no clue as to why this happens but fortuitously you crash apparently unhurt into the freezing seas. You surface amongst buring wreckage and swim towards the only land as the plane begins to slowly dissapear beneath the surface. The land is a small rock with a strange obelisk standing tall ontop, a set of ... Read review

Advantages: Very easy playing, good learning curve, anyone can enjoy this game
Disadvantages: Might be too cutesy for some.

...more. The more you battle, the stronger you become and more abilities you learn so you can tackle the harder foes. The game itself is spanned across 3 dvds making it the largest X-Box 360 game to date. The graphics are awesome, they are brilliant not in a way like Bio-shock, but in a different way. There cute yet believable and very vibrant and colorful. It is a joy to watch this game in motion. Character design is by Akira Toriyama, the genius who brought us Dragonball and Dragon Ball Z, you can really tell his characters are influenced from Goku and Co. And the soundtrack, thats brilliant too. Something you come to expect from Nobuo Uematsu, the legendary composer of dozens of video game soundtracks, including the acclaimed Final Fantasy series. With such a stellar line up of designers and creators, you know this is going to be... Read review

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