Bioshock. Another first person shooter from the makers of 2K. So you start out in a plane crash. Everyone is dead, except you. You need to swim to a dock, of some sort, that leads to a lighthouse. Once you get in there, the door shuts behind you, and it goes into total darkness. You go down some stairs and enter a round, single-man cell that will transport you through an ocean of lighted buildings, billboards, and creatures. “Welcome to Rapture”. You get transported. You see a creature with hooks for both hands. A man begs for his life, but the creature kills him anyway (Haha). Then it notices you and tries to enter the cell. But it leaves. You pick up a radio, and this guy walks you through the map. You get a wrench, which you use as a weapon, and you knock some baddies over the head. There’s a cool function where you get to search enemies that you’ve killed, in case they have ammo, EVE (explained later), or money (not sure what use is, at the moment. Perhaps to buy power-ups?). Then you get a PLASMID. It’s an injectant that changes your DNA and gives you certain powers, such as “Electro bolt” that gives you powers of electricity, or “Incinerate” to burn enemies down to a crisp. There are other plasmids as well, like Telekinesis, A freezing ability, a ball that turns enemies into good guys, and others. Anyway, you eventually go through the map and encounter another man who is trying to kill a “Little sister”. Apparently, little sisters are like children who have been possessed or something (please correct me if I’m wrong), and they are the reason that you fight genetically modified humans. Pretty much, she and her “sisters” run Rapture. They can’t fend for themselves (they’re children for pete’s sake *eye roll*), so they have “Big Daddy”s to help protect them. “Big Daddy and Little Sister”…I’m not even gonna go there. Anyway, these Big Daddy guys are actually…pretty damn big. They’re plastered on every Bioshock poster and you’ll see them in all the Bioshock commercials. He wears a scuba suit and has a giant screwdriver as his right hand. Big Daddy kills this guy who tries to hurt Little Sister and they storm out of the room which you’re looking in to. You find your way into a room, eventually, with a projector. A little movie plays giving you information about the guy who created the city of Rapture before it had fallen to pieces. The movie ends, and you see 3 baddies trying to break their way through glass to get to you. The demo ends there. If you want to play the demo, go to the Xbox Live Marketplace, and go to “Games” and press “Featured Games”.
(Sigh). Now, this seems to be in the top 10 for “Most Anticipated Games of 2007″, and it has the highest ratings of any other game known to Console and PC. Bioshock, raking in “10/10″s as if hell just froze over, wasn’t the greatest game I’ve played. Perhaps it was because of all the praise it’s received lately that I expected more from this game. Honestly, I think Bioshock has been exaggerated in terms of gameplay. The graphics, well, you can’t get much better graphics at the moment, thanks to Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 (Being used currently in Gears of War; To be used in Huxley and Unreal Tournament 3, alongside other). But the gameplay didn’t hook me as much. Sure, being able to light people on fire would be helpful sometimes, but after playing the demo, you don’t really need electricity bolts or fire to fly out of your hands. A gun will do enough damage to enemies. Now, say, if you were up against 5 or 6 people at once, while they were all standing in water, the electricity would be damn useful to shock them all at once. I’ve only played the demo, so I’m basing everything on that experience.
If there was multiplayer online for this, I think it’d be way better. But for now, I’m giving it 8.5/10.
Filed under: Xbox 360.
