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You may be wondering why I'm reviewing a game released in 2007 in 2010, well there are 2 reasons for that:
1) I'm bored
2) I just finished playing it, why? because i procrastinate, excessively......
On to the review:
pika-boo!!
Bioshock is a roleplaying fps developed by 2K Games. It was released in 2007 and has since gained worldwide popularity and praise. It takes place in the dystopian city of rapture, founded by one of the games major characters, Andrew Ryan. The game begins with the main character sitting in a plane, and by a series of events explained later in the game, the plane crashes next to an entrance to rapture. the player then fights his way though rapture to find and kill Andrew Ryan, guided by a mysterious figure named atlas.
Throughout the game, the player finds small substances called plasmids, which are used to alter his DNA, giving him extraordinary powers, like shooting lightning and lighting enemies on fire via a snap of his fingers. While this may seem like something out of star trek, the game does a good job of explaining the science in a way that makes sense, almost justifying the quick way his DNA is restructured, but explaining that would take forever if you haven't played the game.
The electric plasmid in action
The plasmids are powered by a substance called eve which you store in your body. when you run out of this substance you simply take a hypo for it, where you inject more into your body, if you don't have nay hypos on you, you'll need to find one lying around or purchase one from one of the vendors found around rapture. Think of eve as the games mana, if you don't have any way of regianing it when you run out, you're unable to use your special abilities.
Bioshock manages to look very good, even with today's standards, and in my opinion keeps the whole 60's theme in the forefront, even the icons and how the npc's talk is very 60's, and thats what i love about it, it manages to add science that we don't even have in 2010, while managing to stay in the 60's, even the small details like the icons for the guns and plasmids fit the theme very well, which is a testament to how well the game manages to 'stay in theme'.
But even with the nice graphics and interesting features, the game would not be complete without its amazingly compelling storyline, which is what hooked me. while your killing splicers, or trying to take down a big daddy, your always questioning whether what you're doing is right or not, it allows you to shoot, just like in any other game, but it keeps you thinking all the way through, you need to piece together the storyline by listening to what the characters say, and listening to the audio diaries found around rapture. This allows you to slowly learn the story as you go through, and the game leaves a considerable amount for you to piece together, which is what makes the story so compelling, it's a story which isn't watered down to an extent where it simply insults the gamers intelligence, it strikes the balance of being mysterious, yet allows you to eventually learn how the events leading up to rapture in its present state occurred..
The most beautiful part of this game is its maturity, its not a game where you just go around shooting things, it has a sense of maturity in itself which is something I've never seen in a shooter, it is a game which manages to have beautiful graphics in an atmosphere which you didn't think could be beautiful, even the things the little sisters say reminds you that at heart, they're still children, so the decision to either rescue or harvest them becomes that much harder, and made me question if I was doing the right thing, that I wasn't making some terrible mistake, which only added to the awe of the game engrossing story and huge twists.
Overall, I have little to say about this game which is bad, I never thought I'd say this, but the game does barely anything wrong, and the only problem which really bothered me was that the characters looked a little fake, but thats really just me nit-picking, if you haven't played this game, your missing out on one of the best gaming experiences ever. a game that you could probably play over and over and never get tired of, and with a supposed 5 sequels planned, you'll have a lot to be excited for.
Bioshock manages to look very good, even with today's standards, and in my opinion keeps the whole 60's theme in the forefront, even the icons and how the npc's talk is very 60's, and thats what i love about it, it manages to add science that we don't even have in 2010, while managing to stay in the 60's, even the small details like the icons for the guns and plasmids fit the theme very well, which is a testament to how well the game manages to 'stay in theme'.
Toughest decision in the game, which also affects it ending
But even with the nice graphics and interesting features, the game would not be complete without its amazingly compelling storyline, which is what hooked me. while your killing splicers, or trying to take down a big daddy, your always questioning whether what you're doing is right or not, it allows you to shoot, just like in any other game, but it keeps you thinking all the way through, you need to piece together the storyline by listening to what the characters say, and listening to the audio diaries found around rapture. This allows you to slowly learn the story as you go through, and the game leaves a considerable amount for you to piece together, which is what makes the story so compelling, it's a story which isn't watered down to an extent where it simply insults the gamers intelligence, it strikes the balance of being mysterious, yet allows you to eventually learn how the events leading up to rapture in its present state occurred..
The most beautiful part of this game is its maturity, its not a game where you just go around shooting things, it has a sense of maturity in itself which is something I've never seen in a shooter, it is a game which manages to have beautiful graphics in an atmosphere which you didn't think could be beautiful, even the things the little sisters say reminds you that at heart, they're still children, so the decision to either rescue or harvest them becomes that much harder, and made me question if I was doing the right thing, that I wasn't making some terrible mistake, which only added to the awe of the game engrossing story and huge twists.
Overall, I have little to say about this game which is bad, I never thought I'd say this, but the game does barely anything wrong, and the only problem which really bothered me was that the characters looked a little fake, but thats really just me nit-picking, if you haven't played this game, your missing out on one of the best gaming experiences ever. a game that you could probably play over and over and never get tired of, and with a supposed 5 sequels planned, you'll have a lot to be excited for.
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Hell, Kyle. It just seems so good. I think I'll get it on my Xbox...
ReplyDeleteyou should, its amazing, its only seconded to half life 2 in its awesomeness
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