Bioshock Review

So my boyfriend brought over his copy of BioShock to play on my new Xbox 360 Elite (see previous post, lol) and he was playing through it and it looked kinda interesting, so I started playing it too.

Now I'm not a fan of FPS games, I find it too hard to aim and see around me and stuff. I like RPG games the best. Yeah, I've played Borderlands, Halo 3: ODST, Resident Evil 5 and Left For Dead, but they seemed really hard (except for Borderlands, that was fun). So yeah, not a fan of FPS games, and Bioshock is a horror/survival first-peron shooter game. But it looked cool, so I gave it a try. And OMG it was the most awesome game ever! The graphics are so good, the atomosphere is creepy and scary, the gameplay is simple, the storyline is fascinating. I would definitely play this game again. :)



So you play a character called Jack, who's plane crashes in the water near the underwater city of Rapture. You start to receive radio messages from a character named Atlas, who is concerned for your safety in the dangerous city and teaches you the basics. You have a weapon in one hand, and your other hand can be used for various plasmid powers (like shooting electricity, fire, ice, telekinesis etc.) There's tons of weapons, ammo, money, health packs, eve hypos (recharges the energy for the plasmid powers) available all over the place for easy pickup. So you continue exploring the city with the help of Atlas, and you fight various bosses and do jobs for him. Some of your enemies include Splicers (insane humans who try to kill you) of which there are different types. Leadhead splicers carry guns, Houdini splicers can disappear and reappear somewhere else, spider splicers can crawl on the ceiling and do various acrobatics and thuggish splicers use crowbars or other types of hand weapons. There are also the big daddies which are like mini-bosses. They are huge, metal men who are harder to kill then the splicers. Some of them protect Little Sisters, who carry ADAM that Jack can use to buy more plasmids and upgrade existing ones, and level up his character basically. You can harvest the little sisters (kill them and take all their ADAM) or rescue them (make them human again but get less ADAM) and I choose to rescue all of them. I'm just a nice person like that when I play games, lol.



So I managed to get 44 out of 51 achievements too, I was really proud of myself. I used this walkthrough from IGN FAQs to help me get through the confusing bits, there wasn't a lot. If I had followed the walkthrough from the beginning, I would have had all achievements except for one (for playing through on hard) but oh well, I like discovering things for myself. It just means I'll have to focus on getting all the audio diaries next time, and research more security cameras, turrets and bots.

I really don't know what else to write for this game, other than the fact that it is a great game all around. The only thing annoying about it is that you can't use plasmids and weapons at the same time (which they fixed in the next game btw, but more on that later). So if you haven't played it, give it a try!