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Groundbreaking

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bioshock is a groundbreaking game in a genre that really needs something innovative. Many FPS shooters have come and gone adding nothing interesting, or at least nothing interesting enough to spend $60 on. That's what makes Bioshock so special, it has truly redefined what a FPS is capable of and has set the bar higher than ever. In Bioshock, you are placed into the beautiful and unique world of Rapture, an underwater metropolis created by the anti establishment Andrew Ryan. You soon discover that even the most beautiful of places harbor dark secrets. The city is in ruins, madmen stalk it's corridors and even the children have been turned into hideous monsters. It's your job to find out what has happened in Rapture and choose if you will become the city's liberator or the orchestrator of its destruction. Bioshock excels on just about every category you can think of. The story is original and gripping, the graphics are extraordinary(pools of liquid reflect and react to light and your movements flawlessly)The controls are perfect for a FPS and the weapons are fun to use.(especially the 1950's style tommy gun with the cylinder clip. very cool) players have the freedom of customizing their weapons and special powers and are even given the opportunity to invent their own. Bioshock is pretty long as far as FPS go. Going though the campaign with out a guide will take you a good 10 or so hours. If you like to play your games for those coveted achievement points Bioshock has them! 50 achievements in all and they warrant playing the game for a second or even third time. I can go on and on about how amazing bioshock is but you'll have to play it. My only complaint is that there is no multi player but perhaps in this case it's for the best. Pick it up. It could very well be the game of the year.

Simply the best game yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those game experiences that is so immersive that it haunts you well after you play. The story is engaging, the voice acting is superior to any other game, and the visuals are simply ILM movie-like.

The 360 version is in my mind the best way to go since more people have larger screens and 5.1 in their "movie room" that really does justice to the expansive visuals and terrifying suspense. Yes, this is one spooky/creepy/weird game.

At first I would just explore every inch of locations just to soak in all of the detailed artwork that the artists really knocked out of the park. It's not just that it's high resolution and lifelike -- it is the pure design imagination of this utopian underworld locale that has been sealed up since 1960. You'll find new years eve parties that were suddenly ended by some strange happening -- wine bottles still laying everywhere, party banners strewn, taped diary entries that piece together the happenings of the past few years in this place where something went terribly wrong.

It all works. Even for someone like me who isn't terriby great at shooters. This is way more than target practice and running and gunning. This is taking part in something that one normally only finds in a movie theatre.

Buy it. You won't be sorry. And if your PC is not up to snuff, definitely worth buying a 360 to experience.

Unbelievable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The FPS genre has become so played out and sterile. BioShock is the breath of fresh air I had been waiting for. It easily tops Halo (not a small task) as well as Gears of War. I just can't get over how great this game is!

The story is so engrossing and the characters are magnificent. The 1940's retro sci fi aspect were so refreshing and the story wouldn't let me put the game down. I played this for a week and devoted some serious time to beating it. The graphics and sound make for a spooky surreal world that will have you playing with the lights on.

The weapons selection and controls are fantastic. I love the myriad of special abilities that can be unlocked such as telekinesis where you can actually hurl the body of someone you've just dispatched at another attacker or catch grenades in the air and send them back at the thrower. Fire, ice, insects all at your fingertips in addition to the standard firearms and grenade launchers. You have to see this to believe it!

Great Game but Still Over-Hyped

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. Its fun, its beautiful and its definitely unique, but I must say it was over hyped. I'd recommend it if you're in the mood for a dark, twisted first person shooter.

Most fun I've had with a game in a long time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not going into detail about the game. Others have done a great job of that already. Very fun!! Pick it up. I don't play alot of games... Or I should say at 59.00 bucks a pop I'm picky about the ones I do buy. This one was worth it. The people who gave this one star must have played a different game because this one really is a blast if you take your time and soak it all in.

a must play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have to tell you when I first read about this game I wasnt interested. The guy at my local store told me I HAD to get it, and he was right. So I pass the information on to you. You have to play this game. It was the most fun I have had in a game in a long time!!

Great shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great shooter that requires some strategy(s). You can't just blast through foes without some plan and clever use of available tools.

A totally new and original kind of First Person Shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bioshock is a FPS game that goes where no other FPS has gone... and Im not just talking about a city at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Gameplay:
Pros:
The gameplay in bioshock is more than just your typical FPS. Aside from what all FPS games do, Bioshock takes it a step further. You progress through a linear set of levels, but each level is anything but linear. You have the freedom to go around each level hacking machines to help you fight your enemies, get new PLASMIDS and upgrade your current ones, get weapon upgrades, invent a new types of ammo for each of your guns, and lots of other neat things.

Cons: While the game has plenty of depth and action, The problem is the difficulty. Not to say that there is no challenge to staying alive, ive died many times. But the problem that I have is that whenever you die, you automatically become revived in a "vita chamber" with half of your health and all of the stuff you had before, and all of the enemies that you killed or damaged before are still that way. This means that there really is no incentive to stay alive. I often find myself loading the game whenever I die just to challenge myself to not get killed.

Story:
The story of bioshock starts with the nameless main charactor that you play as on an airplain in the year 1960. the plain crashes in the atlantic ocean and the surviving main charactor makes his way to a light house that leads to the underwater city of Rapture. The story unfolds through radio communication with friends and foes and tape recordings of the citizens of rapture before things went bad. There are at least two different endings to the game and 3 difficulty levels which gives it plenty of replay value.

Graphics:
Pros:
Bioshock is full of incredibly detailed eyecandy in every corner. The envirnments are all varried so no two places look alike. It has some of the best looking water and ice effects ever made of polygons.

Cons:
However, there is an issue with the graphics that may or may not matter all that much. Once in a while some of the 3d models will appear without rendering the textures, so it looks basic and bland. then it suddenly becomes detailed. I have noticed this in other xbox 360 games.

Controls: Controlling Bioshock is like most FPS games on a console. Dual analog controlls movement and looking/aiming. But the controlls are not as smoothe as they could be. Aiming relys alot on auto aim, wich may sometimes cause you to attack the wrong target. You have the option to turn auto aim off, but then aiming is alot more difficult.

Content: Bioshock is a strictly single-player game. There is no multiplayer at all. Most gamers wouldn't mind playing a multiplayer version of bioshock over xbox live. all there is to do in bioshock is the single plater campaign. but there is still plenty of replay value.

Over all, If you have a 360, buy this game, or You can download the demo off of xbox live market place if you want to try it before droping $60 for it.

Amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I first read of Bioshock in a gaming magazine long ago and remember thinking that it was a really interesting setup but that a game like that would probably never deliver - even if it saw the light of day. Boy was I wrong. Without boring you on storyline I will say that story and setting really were the most enjoyable element of this game for me. I enjoyed the uniqueness and the dark undertone as well as the tie-ins to our society. Without realizing it I found myself drawn into the Rapture world. The great attention to level design and details and the spectacular voice acting only further buried me in this fantasy realm. I give the game a solid 5 star rating.

In all fairness, Bioshock isn't your typical game. The absence of solid gun fighting means it isn't an FPS, though it controls like one. The pacing is also much too slow and story-driven to be in line with most shooters. I enjoy a good story and find the console world too saturated with shooters already so this was a boon to me. Bioshock also isn't an RPG. You can loot, but it is essentially limited to money and a few invention items and you don't keep an Inventory in the RPG sense. You can upgrade your weapons somewhat (in unique and interesting ways that actually reflect in the appearance of the weapons) but you don't loot bigger and better like you would in a typical RPG. And this game, with its forgiving death system and plentiful ammo, is certainly not a survival game either. I've heard it compared to System Shock but having never played that I can't tell you. If there is a genre for this type of game I've certainly been missing out.

If I had to voice a complain it would be that the much-touted moral decisions are not present in the game. You can save the sisters or harvest them. That is your only choice, the rest is railroad linear.

As good as Halo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fantastic. Great story line, remarkable visuals, and perfect character control. The new weapons are creative and some are wonderfully disgusting. All I can say is wow, this game starts off great and just gets better and better. I actually used vacation days so I could stay home and play.

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