Ah, Bioshock. I only recently got my hands upon this game with the purchase of Bioshock Rapture Edition. Now to be fair, I had played the game years back at my Buddy's house but unfortunately his X-box broke and couldn't played it. Now I've always heard that Bioshock is Fantastic, one of the greatest games ever made, and etc. So, I decided it was about time I purchased it. My thoughts? Well read on.

STORY:
The story follows the Protagonist of the game, Jack. For the most part he's a silent character, but he does have one line. "My parents always told me I was special, and that I was made to do great things. You know what? They were right." Fantastic Line. But other than that, he doesn't say one thing. On a trip to England the Airplane that he is on has a crash and falls into a sea of water. As a Miracle, Jack just so happens to survive the crash, and sees a near by Light house. He eventually swims to it, and finds an evalator, where goes down to an underwater city, Rapture. This is definitely one of the coolest places in gaming. It definitely shows what it's trying to do... Going to places Man has only dream't about. In this game it's an Underwater city, and in the third installment it's in the sky. Honestly, if they wind up making a sequel, I have no Idea how they can top this. Through out the game you'll find Audio Logs, or as the game calls them, "Audio Diarys" and they'll tell you some fairly interesting story's and Information. For the most part, these are optional, but if you really want to connect everything up in the story than it's recommended to listen to these. Andrew Ryan the creator of Rapture is the Antagonist of the game. An aquaintance you meet early in the game "Atlas" helps you through out, and is where most of your missions come from.

I honestly love the lessons the game is giving. It's basically showing how humanity would be like if there was no rules, and was free to do anything. It'd get out of hand. And the fact that it's an underwater city helps that. Each game in the series tends to deal with issues like this, but that's for there own review.

So for the most part the story is pretty good, but it requires that you really pay attention to whats going on to fully aprecciate it.

GAMEPLAY:
Ah, the game play. What can I say.... It's pretty fluent. Through out the game you'll find a wide variety of Guns. Early in the game you also discover "Plasmids" and these are basically like Magic. The very first one you get in the game is Electricity. My personal favorite is Telekinisis. You also have a camera in the game where you can take pictures of enemies and you'll learn about them, and you'll get bonus's such as More damage against that certain enemy. I personally didn't find myself using that feature to much in the game. There's two currency's in this game. Money and Adam. Money is what you think it is. You can purchase Health packs, Ammo, EVE Hypo's (The stuff that fills up your magic), and even hacking devices. In the game you'll find Cameras, turrets, and some other things like that. You can destroy them if you want, but if you stun them you can go up to them and hack them. You'll have to play a Minigame of sorts, and can be pretty difficult. You basically have to make a passage with tubes to another side before this blue liquid get's to it. I previously mentionied the hacking device. This will auto-hack it for you. Adam is a rarer currency, and harder to get. Through the game you'll find these enemies called Big Daddys. There damn hard, but you have to fight them to get adam. The big daddy's are gaurding these little girls called "Little sisters". Once you defeat a big daddy, you'll have the choice of Harvesting or Rescuing the little sister. If you harvest them you get tons of Adam but will result in a bad ending, if you decide to rescue them you'll get little Adam, but you'll result in a good ending. It's basically a choice of Morality. With Adam you can purchase Plasmids, Plasmid Upgrades, Health Upgrades, EVE Upgrades, and more.

Through out the game you'll also find machines that will upgrade your guns. Unfortunately each one only has one use, so choose wisely. Upgrades are nice, but it even results in making your gun look cooler. Especially the Revolver. Ammo in the game can occasionally be hard to come by, and make some parts rather difficuly. Luckily there's not to many. Another occasional problem is money. While it doesn't become to bad, it can also be really hard to find on SOME parts.

Welp, I think I've covered most of the Gameplay. Let's move on.

MUSIC AND SFX:
Most of the game there isn't much music, but it's all key to immersion. When Music does play, it's Incredible. I mean, just listen to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVQ70MT2Kk . One of my favorite soundtracks of all time. The SFX is also pretty cool. Especially when you hear someone walking nearby or something like that. It freaks you out.

PRESENTATION: This is probably one of the best parts about this game. The Atmosphere is absolutely incredible, and just damn right immersive. And it help's that the Graphics are gorgeous as well. I didn't run into that many glitches, but I did run into a few. Most of them being dead bodys just spazzing around. Luckily there few far and between.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:
I'd have to say this is a must play. The mere fact of going to places where Man has only dream't about is just plain awesome. I honestly felt like I WAS Jack. You don't leave his view once in the game, and the fact that he's silent adds to that. It's basically you right there. That's probably one of my favorite things about the game though. The atmosphere. You always feel like you're actually there. Another one of my favorite things is the Underline message. The difference between a Man and a Slave, where would humanity go if we didn't have rules. The answer to that is Rapture. If you haven't played this game, than why the hell haven't you? Would you kindly play this f***ing game already.

7.5/10
(Some of the hype sullied the experience for me...)

Very well written review, and very lengthy which is really good for a review. That really says that you are very descriptive in your details and that you are very thorough with your information. I really like how you talk about each category in detail. The only thing I would recommend that you do is put your scores somewhere in your review and then give reasoning for why you gave them that score. I do that in my reviews all the time and it explains to the person reading it and it informs them and gives them a heads up on what the game is all about. Your review is otherwise very excellent quality and keep it  up and keep making awesome reviews! Great work! You really articulated the points of this game and if I were someone I would play this game form the way you reviewed it so great work!

Nice review.
You typed all the good things about the game.
And some of the negatives.
Nice review.

I apreciate you liking the review, as well as giving me some advice. I definitely wanna start focusing on negatives on future reviews though....

This is very descriptive about the game and you did a great job connecting graphics and sound to incorporate with the immersion of the game. Another thing that you did well that some reviewers may not do as well is how you critiqued story more than just the storyline, but also the lessons and how the story works with the game design itself.

Your review wrote great stuff about this game. However, that is also an issue I have this review. With the way that you are writing this review, I don't understand how this game doesn't get a higher score than an 8.5. The only negative thing that I read (at least from what I see) is that the hype tainted the experience a little bit, which you didn't really spend a lot of time explaining. I think there are more things that you are thinking about that is preventing you from giving it a 9, or even a 10. You should talk about the bad as well as the good so that you can have a more balanced review as well as having us readers make better sense in your ratings.

Yeah. Again, that's definitely something I want to start focusing on, is the the negatives. And I guess I missed that. I meant to do a 9... Lemme edit that.

Very, Very Nice Review! I enjoyed reading every bit of it. 
I like how you give a point, then evidence and explained it further!
You give both Positive and Negative points which was very good.
I hope to see more reviews from you.