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Not a fan...very disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 26 / 99
Date: August 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wow, so apparently this game is a "perfect 10" based upon some game aficionados. I had high hopes when I purchased this game 3 days ago...already I'm bored with it. As a fan of FPS, I thought a "perfect 10" game would have me coming back for more. Not with this game. The game play was short, 1 dimensional, and lacking a multiplayer that would rival Halo2. I'm sorry, but for a FPS game (not games like Oblivion, which in my opinion is a far superior game) to NOT have a multiplayer or have serious flaws with their multiplayer (ala Gears of War) is a HUGE factor is rating the game. Since Bioshock doesn't have multiplayer, I took it down 2 stars.

The most annoying aspect of this game is when you play it on hard level. It takes a thousand shots to kill a regular enemy. It takes a million shots to kill a Big Daddy. This normally wouldn't be a problem, if it was easy to accumulate ammo. Unfortunately for a FPS game, you spend the entire time searching dead bodies and crates looking for ammo or money to buy ammo instead of actually enjoying the shooting aspect of everything. Some will chalk to this up to "amazing game play features" but its retarded. Its a FPS game, not a role playing game. What a waste of time.

The same can be said for the powers that you use. You basically get to use your "adam" powers twice before you've drained it, THEN you gotta scrounge around even more to find "eve" (which refills your adam powers) or money to buy eve. Another huge waste of time.

BioShock would have been astute to have the Eve recharge on its own, so you can enjoy using your powers instead of rarely using them so you don't accidentally waste them.

Also, I played the game on hard and beat it quite easily. I found the Big Daddy's to be a lot harder than the final battle with Fontaine (the boss). He was so easy that it was laughable. What a lackluster ending.

I wanted to enjoy this game, but for the aforementioned reasons, I was more frustrated than pleased. Be warned, this game is a RENTAL. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY BUYING IT!!! You will grow tired of it in a hurry.

You've heard the hype, now hear the unbiased truth

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 70
Date: September 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think there is enough commentary on here to choke a horse, so I'll sum up my comments:

1. Bioshock is short.
2. Multiplayer (ha, ha, lol)
3. Graphics? err, reminds me of Doom 3.
4. Too Too Easy, I beat it without having to use both hands. (Big Daddy, Fontaine = easy)

In conclusion this is a game marketed to the young croud of unskilled gamers, hardcore gamers will not find this game to be compelling. I would recommend this game for ages 10 to 17.

Save the dough and rent first, or buy mine from me, I'll sell it for $60.00 to the first unsuspecting rube.

If you are a casual gamer you might like this title. Don't believe the hype.

The most overrated game in the history of games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 26 / 74
Date: September 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you google on the article "BioShock - Overrated Disneyland Ride", I share many of the sentiments. I just don't understand what game you reviewers were playing. It sure wasn't BioShock. I will try my best to not sound like yet another "This sucks" kind of person. The graphics are amazing; the spotlight lighting and shading is pretty advanced. Sometimes the enemy characters are so in the dark, they are hard to make out, but their features look pretty believable. I also liked the Big Daddy character mulling around. The story itself is also ok; a little different from the humans against the aliens shooters we are used to. But, I am paying $60 to actually play a game not to foam at the mouth for eye-candy.

First, the gameplay is just so amazingly basic; You pick up guns, ammo, plasmids and you run around the dungeon like environment as characters pop up or the occasional turret or flying thingy. This may not be so bad except for the fact that you don't really get to use your full range of motions. You don't ever have to attack somebody above you or below you. It is a basic forward shooting, dungeon FPS (almost kind of reminded me of Doom 1). Oh yea, all of that is kind of pointless because if you aren't strapped for time, you can just respawn and finish off your characters without any real penalties.

Let's look at Halo2 or Gears of War, for example. In Halo 2, you might have to take out a bunch of weaker characters close up and then snipe the more difficult ones from a distance while using your soldiers as bait. In Gears, it is the same thing; you are ducking behind walls corners so you don't get toasted by the Boomers, hoping your friendly characters might kill something. In Bioshock, I just kind of ran around clubbing people with the wrench because I never really had any ammo. I was bored to tears.

Not a big deal, but what happened to Animation sequences or End chapter sequences. All I am getting is that silly radio message popup or maybe a diary message which I won't normally listen to. Those aren't very exciting and makes it hard to appreciate the story.

Maybe I am wrong, It could be possible. I am flexible in my analysis of the game if you want to comment on it.

And I am only at 60% completion, so maybe that other 40% is where the amazing part of the game is. I don't know. To be honest, I don't think I can continue.

IT'S A MIRACLE THIS GAME SELL'S!@!!!!@!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 151
Date: August 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just wanted to tell you consumers the truth about this piece of crap. Many X-box owners have seen the previews, and are expecting alot from this game. Let me tell you that this game has a crappy rpg element in it that makes this crappy game even worse. The graphics are not very impressive, and I grew bored of this game very quickly. This is not a first person shooter. It is a mix between F.E.A.R. and Psi-ops....a bad mix. I wasted 50 dollars!!! My X-box 360 is bad enough with no good games except for Halo 3, and bungie better not mess that up. The only people who would enjoy Bio-shock are microsoft tools who crawl out of their cave every 10 months to see daylight, but they can't because they're already blind. Blind of sight and taste in games. I hate my 360 if halo 3 sucks i'm going to throw it infront of a bus, so it stops making so much noise!

Draconian DRM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 53
Date: October 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Draconian copy protection scheme through Securom totally ruined the experience for me. It was over a month between purchase and being able to play the game. When I was able to play I was hounded by severe technical glitches.

Both problems were eventually resolved through fan suggestions. Attempts to rectify the issues by contacting the company support lines failed to generate any results.

From what I have seen of the game it looks to be both ambitious and atmospheric but my enthusiasm is long gone. This will be the last 2K title I will ever purchase.

people say HALO is overrated.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 70
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is awful. Sure, the graphics are amazing,
but they are also great in gears and halo. This game
got such a hype, AND FOR WHAT??????? The story line
at first is great, but repetitive later. I heard
this game was first announced 3 years ago.....what
a waste of time. Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony; PLEASE
DROP THE ANNOYING ANIME/RPG ****!!!!!! BRING BACK
FPS AND THE SUPERIOR HACK-N-SLASH.

Too difficult for part time gamers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 74
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is written by a part time gamer who simply likes to enjoy a game. I find most games are far too difficult for the part time gamer even on the easy setting. All games should have a "Very Easy" option. I suspect that there are many others like me who would buy more games if they were not so difficult.

I thought the rest of the game was great. Because this was frustrating rather than fun I give it a 1 star. I wish I would not have bought it to pay for being frustrated.

Technically brilliant, depressingly creepy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 33
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really tried to like this game, but I couldn't get past the first few hours. It gets great reviews for its technical and "story" achievements but I wish all those magnificent skillz had been applied to something less ugly (artfully ugly, but still dog ugly).
I kept feeling like a serial killer while shooting, clubbing, and burning very realistic looking men, women and children who left behind realistic looking twitching corpses. Call me soft, but I don't enjoy creeping through a duct to find a lonely woman listening to a melancholic radio song, and clubbing her to death with a wrench.
There is no way you can feel like the good guy in this scenario. Not even if you refrain from harvesting the little sisters.
If you like horror porn movies like "Saw", this is probably your cup of tea. If you flip channels when they air trailers for such movies, don't buy this game. It'll make you sick. I hope this counter balances all the wild enthusiasm and provides some needed caution.

Don't Believe the Hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 27
Date: February 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Don't believe the hype. Look at all the reviews on this site that just blush about this game. They all seem a bit too well written, i.e. how amazon is known for selling reviews and promoting such great reviews for products with a lot of marketing behind them.

Back to the actual game. My first complaint. There is just too much going on, the game's environment is way too busy. Most games of this nature would introduce complicated aspects to a game a piece at a time. This game unloads more than a handful of new aspect:, game play, plot structure, up mods (of which there are plasmoids and other such features, of which's ammo aren't named the same but are ADAM and EVE) game mapping all in a matter of a minimum of two hours of game play. The map is just utterly confusing, even with the arrow that points you in the right directon (which it does only at cerain aspects of the game). To help on this confusion they have a number of "diaries" made to unlock glimpses of the plot to you. Playing for about a half hour two hours in I ran across at least five. It becomes so over whelming to have to listen to these diaries to keep up to date on what you're supposed to look out for that they should have found a better way to incorporate them into the game (i.e. You have to find them, recognize them asgainst the several options you have to search for - ammo, money, plasmoids, upgrades, health, etc etc - that to see "oh it's another diary on the microscopic font on the screen" and then hold down A and listen to it while doing everything else.)

Additionally, the setting is so dark - which as a mood setter is good, but for game play is horrible. Someone would appear behind you shooting a tommy gun and it would take more than a few seconds of gaping around before they're actually found. At which point you've lost a good amount of health. Then there's the vita tanks. The points where if you die you're automatically respawned with just about every weapon/item you had before. And if you were fighting an someone, then the damage you had inflicted is still present. Ever heard of that in a game before? Neither had I, and it's there because if it wasn't you toss the game in your closet and forget it.

Did you play Condemned: Criminal Origins? Did you like it? Yeah, I didn't think so. In that case avoid this game, because the fighting style is basically the same. Nameless lackee jumps out from wall swinging wildly in that same clunky manner, running in the same style. And you're melee attack is exactly the same. They may have well as called this game. Condemned: Aquatic Surrender. Thank God, I rented it.

SO not worth the wait.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of shooters, I bought the original Doom over 15 years ago and was hooked. I even gave up my beloved Mac for a PC, and have spent thousands on every new shooter that came out. I played System Shock 2 years ago, loved the story line, the gameplay, hacking computers and upgrading my "specs", tricking out my gear, searching containers, etc. So when I heard the sequel was due out in 2007, Bioshock, I couldn't wait to play it. $50.00 +, but, OK..most of the new game software out there runs about that, and if the game's good, you can spend years playing it. So, I load it up, and....nothing. Loads fine, opening sequence..fine. Then nothing but a black screen. Three tries, then nothing. Go to the Bioshock Website, all reviews are terrific (of course). Let's check the open Web. The mother lode. Hundreds of complaints, slow frame rates, stuttering audio, game crashes, load number restrictions, on and on. Now I'm sweating (once you break that seal, baby, you own it). So, I have another PC, also only about 3 years old, loaded it up and it did play just long enough to get me interested in the story line, all completely in slow motion, but you're so hungry for gameplay you'll shoot anything, even if it's like throwing a watermelon across a room. I got all the way to the 4th level, and it just wound down and stopped. Guess it just ran out of Steam. Speaking of Steam, sound familiar? What a waste of money. If you don't have dual processors, a gaming rig that's less than a year old (I had NVidia video card on one and ATI Radeon 9600 on the other), and endless patience for throwing your money down the toilet, stay away from this game.

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