Ranting Canuck

Today I finished Bioshock on my Xbox 360, I am not sure how long that game too to complete I am thinking maybe 20 hours. This was the second time that I attempted to play Bioshock when it first game out I tried it on the PC and I guess my system was not fast enough to play the game. At the time I thought the game looked decent and could be a lot of fun but I did not feel like upgrading my computer to play this one game. Especially since my system was well with the required specs to the play the game.

Anyway I burrowed Bioshock from a friend and decided I was going to play it through, over all I really enjoyed. The graphics are pretty good, there was very few video glitch’s at least that I noticed. The sound was extremely well done, the weapons sounded right and the sound helped to set the mood the game.

Bioshock has a pretty well developed story; the game is set in 1960 and starts you in plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean. You then find a light house that is connecting to an underwater city called Rapture. The story then develops and you quickly must deal with the famous morel dilemma in the game. Basically there are little sisters who are harvesting ADAM from people and are protected by Big Daddies, basically larger walking deep sea suits armed to the teeth. After you kill the Big Daddies you have to decide what you want to do with the little sister, you can harvest them which gives you more ADAM or free them and get less ADAM. The premise of the game is that the more little sisters that you harvest the easier the game is, but if you don’t harvest them the end of the game will be easier. Well I choose not to harvest them, for one reason really and that is that there an achievement reward for saving all the little sisters.

Anyway there are a total of thee endings to Bioshock, if you are interested here is video of them, this is obviously a huge spoiler.

If there was one thing that I did not like about Bioshock was that at times the game dragged a little. There was a couple of sections that was put in for the sake extending that game they are really don’t add much to the game.

A common criticism is that Bioshock is really just System Shock II redone in a deep sea environment and I have to agree with them. I did not play much of System Shock II but the little I remember the similarities in the game. Bioshock also steals a lot of things from the Fallout series in my opinion.

Here is the Zero Punctuation review of Bioshock, I find it amusing and it is pretty accurate also to my feelings on the game.

 

via videosift.com