Bioshock is the critically acclaimed game from 2K Boston/2K Australia and was released on the Xbox 360 and Pc in August 2007. The developers describe Bioshock as 'the genetically modified first person shooter' and is the spiritual successor to System Shock.
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Bioshock 2 a game for Microsoft Xbox 360 is set during the fall of Rapture, an underwater ... more
scientific research facility used for performing illegal or unethical science. It seems since your last visit to Rapture that the little girls have been going mi...
Advantages: Outstanding in every way. Unique atomosphere Disadvantages: Scary stuff at times
Bioshock is the critically acclaimed game from 2K Boston/2K Australia and was released on the Xbox 360 and Pc in August 2007. The developers describe Bioshock as 'the genetically modified first person shooter' and is the spiritual successor to System Shock.
Bioshock is a first person shooter but also has elements of a RPG in the fact that you can gain abilities called Plasmids which alter what special powers you can use ranging from ... ...I would not recommend it to people with a nervous disposition. Bioshock has set new water marks with what can be achieved on a games console. I would not call this just another game, it is a work of art that has to be played to be believed. ... more
Bioshock is the critically acclaimed game from 2K Boston/2K Australia and was released on the Xbox 360 and Pc in August 2007. The developers describe Bioshock as 'the genetically modified first person shooter' and is the spiritual successor to System Shock.
Bioshock is a first person shooter but also has elements of a RPG in the fact that you can gain abilities called Plasmids which alter what special powers you can use ranging from Electric Shock to Telekinesis. It is also a horror game of a very good standard, this game is very scary, it scares me to death every time i play it, but i will tell you more about this later. You use the weapons you find from Wrench's to Flame Throwers to beat back the 'Splicers' which populate the underwater world of Rapture.
Without going into the story too much, because it is a cracker and i don't want to ruin it for you guys. The year is 1960 you assume the role of Jack, and you have just been involved in a plane crash which winds you up in the middle of the Atlantic Sea in the middle of the night and all that you find is a barren looking Lighthouse. You swim over, have a poke around and find a little submarine type vessel which takes you down to a underwater city, a utopia where free thinkers and great minds live aside each other, this place is called Rapture. Why have you been brought here? Who are you? What happened to Rapture, why does it lie in ruins? And what are those little girls who stalk the dark flooded corridors doing here? Those are some of the many questions you will be asking as you play.
Like i said before, this game is scary because it creates a very realistic atmosphere through outstanding visuals, realistic sound effects from bullets firing to the splat you hear when you hit someone with a wrench. The atmosphere is tense to say the least, and it never lets up, not for one moment so if you scare easy, do avoid. You feel as Rapture really did exist. It is filled to the brim with realistic detail, things you would expect to find in a real city, pubs, clubs, hotels, gardens, parks, opera houses and much more. And thats where this game shines, it has gone back in time to the sixties and brought it here, so we can re-live it. The attention to detail on the characters is mind blowing. They all wear the dress of the period, and they interact with each other in a very clever way. They talk about what they have been doing, what they saw, and just generally talk as we would. All of this adds to the very believable setting which is Rapture.
I would recommend this game to people who do like first person shooters with a horror element to them, as this certainly can cater for both types of gamer. I would not recommend it to people with a nervous disposition. Bioshock has set new water marks with what can be achieved on a games console. I would not call this just another game, it is a work of art that has to be played to be believed.
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 ...
Concrete_Donkey 08.09.2007
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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 ...
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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 ...
Magrippinho 15.11.2007
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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 ...
JamieJCO 12.09.2008
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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 ...
elmopants 30.08.2007 (17.08.2007)
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