[onkeh]

Please post your reviews for BioShock in this thread.

Absolutely incredible game in every aspect, atmosphere, graphics, story, concept, combat, everything. One of the greatest shooters ever made in my opinion and would recommend to anyone.

10/10

[BenchyUK]

Really great game and pleased i played through again on the PS3 version

8/10

[ri4z]

One of the games of the year for me.
It's like the enemies are on LSD or something. Epic!

[sparced]

7/10.

Don't worry I'll probably give Far Cry 2 a four when I'm through with it.

[BazzerJ]

Excellent game, but really too short, and a bit too predictable/linear.

8/10

[beowulf]

had it on 360 - my fave game of the year tbh

got it as a xmas pressie - roll on the 25th for the ps3 !!

amazing game , really atmospheric , and just a lot of fun

[Fen Star]

Excellent game, and voted as such....

[bob_the_skull]

Ace game. Cant wait for sea of dreams
10/10

[catisfit]

Average.

The art direction for the city is fantastic, the actual art realisation is awful. The models and textures are remarkably low resolution, and even though UE3 is an ugly engine to start with, this is below average even for that.

The game thinks it's a lot more intelligent than it really is. As if using the words "harvest" versus "rescue" wasn't signposting enough, the characters you apply them to are little girls! The plot "twist" really wasn't a twist at all as it was pretty obvious. MGS2 says hi!

Furthermore, the game is simply a dumbed-down and renamed version of (the awesome) System Shock 2, with some of the most annoying pieces of the Half-Life game put in for good measure. The Stillman section works neatly as survival horror, I really like the body appearing on the table, the shadows of a murder scene only to reveal no bodies, the "doctor" appearing behind you as you examine a table. Unfortunately I missed the first two of these on my first playthrough because in copying Half-Life's "always first person" theme it falls into the same problem - I was looking in a different direction when these things happened, mostly because the screen goes dark and my instinct is to look around for a lightsource or a threat. A proper cutscene would have drawn these details out perfectly.

Even more disappointingly, this survival horror aspect then disappears after the Stillman part.

The game itself falls into the worst trap of backtracking, which is placing a goal right in front of your face only to snatch it away at the last minute and replace it with a series of annoying "fetch" side-quests before you can continue. Lazy.

I also missed out on an apparently cool later event in the game because I was somehow supposed to predict that I should have left the lawyer from the OC alive, even though I'm supposed to kill everyone else in this world. If there's a choice I'm supposed to make, flag it up to me in a codec shortwave radio call at least.

The actual gameplay itself is the biggest issue, however. Being unable to reassign shooting to the much better L1 and R1 buttons flies in the face of every other shooter I play. Meaning I've played the game twice and still struggle with the controls. Coupled with annoying delays when switching from weapons to plasmids and back, it makes combat very annoying.

The vita-chamber concept is horrible, it basically removes all challenge from the game, as you can fight a big daddy until you die, respawn, find some more ammo then continue the fight. Turning vita-chambers off means you have to constantly remember to save as the designers haven't designed the world with this in mind, which either leaves you in a constant state of failing to be immersed in the game as you have saving in the back of your mind, or annoyance as you die and realise you hadn't saved for a while and the game certainly hasn't helped you out with any autosaving.

After all that, it fails with general game issues, like unskippable logos on start up, ridiculous trophies with no thought whatsoever, and the worst of all: I completed the game, and decided to go back and search for every audio diary I'd missed, only I had begun a new game on a different difficulty level in between and my autosave from the last boss fight had been overwritten. Ordinarily I would say this was my fault, but when the game springs on you the fact that you can no longer save in the lift prior to the final boss battle, then autosaves, the least it could do is not overwrite that autosave, don't you think?

[beowulf]

i loved it , my game of the year along with cod4 def.

just so immersive with stunning art direction

and sander cohen is one of the most crazily brilliant game characters ever invented !!!!

[Usama]

Excellent/ 8|10

[redwinnie]

excellent game and only 12.99 at play.com this weekend.

even has trophies for you whores out there.

[ehe12]

isn't this game released very early on PC?

[Michele Bottoni]

I want this game for my birthday !!!!!!

[Tonks01]

Completed this recently, stunning! One of the best video games I have ever played and ticked all the right boxes for me. Will play through again

6/10

I was disappointed with this game, on the PS3 after a years wait from the PC & 360 version they still release a game which needed to be patched which is lazy and disrespectful of the publishers (textures missing and dubious framerate when compared to other versions).

The game itself has a clever idea and atmosphere but the storyline and 'characters' are weak. The gameplay is massively repetitive with little sense of discovery, fear or achievement. I know lots of places gave this 10 but it didn't grab me at all.

[StuR6]

Its nearly got it all; loogs great on a 1080p tv; sounds are just fine. Game mechanics - motion is fluid and not too slow, yet not blindingly fast. All weapons work and make sense.

Enemy AI is fine and does better than most.

Game does revolusionise some aspects; love the upgrade weapons; create your own ammo.

The cartoony characters are cool and remind me of Timesplitters. The game has a general cheeky feel to it.

[spann3rs]

I'm the kina guy who plays a game until i find it boring, or cannot get past a hard bit so shelve it... With Bioshock I watched the trailor many months before its release on Xbox and fell in love with the whole story and concept. I purchased the game on launch day, and played it on and off for a few month. I never found the story boring, and is still the only game I have ever completed!! I normally get bored after a few plays (Beatles RockBand, KillZone 2, Little Big Planet) but not with this.

Recently sold the xbox and game so may buy it again on PS3 before the new one comes out...

So as far as im concerened this is a fantastic game and I for one cannot wait until the next installment... My GOTY.

J

[Chris333]

I forgot how much i liked this game up until today.

Being off sick has meant being stuck at home with just the ps3 running and the imac online using a 3G dongle.

I completed COD MW2 so i got bio shock back out to complete that one.

Bio shock is great, specially with the surround sound on, i find the weapons and the the ability to change your gene's interesting.

Sometimes i find the controls less intuitive to use and i get lost with what your supposed to be doing but that point is easily fixed by checking on the map and the hints.

I'm looking forward to completing it however and getting the second, def my favourite game after COD.