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BioShock (PS3) - Reviews | Playstation 3

BioShock is an Action game developed by 2k australia, 2k boston and published by 2k games inc in 2008 for the Playstation 3.

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Rating: 9.7 (4 votes)

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Overall 9.7    Graphics 9.5    Sound 10    Addictive 8.5    Story 9    Depth 9    Difficulty 2.5



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Bioshock Review   MinkNyu
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. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVQ70MT2Kk[/url] . 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...)
  Graphics 10   Sound 10   Addictive 7   Story 8   Depth 8   Difficulty 4

      Review Rating: 4/5     Submitted: 05-30-13     Updated: 10-11-13     Review Replies: 6


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The best game, ever   thenumberone
Well, I dont know how it took me so long to review this game, many people have been
unfortunate enough to have to listen to me rave about how good it is.
And now your going to be faced with a beast of a review where you
wonder where the end is. If youre lucky, it will end, i cant make promises though =p
Bioshock is a great game in so many ways, it unites so many ideas
and factors, hypothesis's and questions, that are actual present
in socoiety. It highlights corruption, greed, ambition, war, all
the things in man that are bad, but all that is good too.
So at the start you are on a plane, in fact, il post the start scene,
it wil give you an idea of what the games like:
[youtube]3U1WdKwbv_s[/youtube]
So thats the first thing you see on starting the game, excellent,
a bit of drama, i bit of excitement. Imediately following that
scene you find yourself sinking in the ocean, and fight your way
to the surface, where total devestation greets you, your plane
destroyed, oil slick burning all around you, and the only thing
in sight, a lone lighthouse.
Walking through the open door, it slams shut, plunging you into
darkness.
The auto lights trigger and the first thing you see,
[img]http://www.meh.ro/original/2009_10/meh.ro2452.png[/img]
That sets the tone for the game. As yet you still have no clue
as to what is going on, or where you are, and the game does that
throughout. You never quite know where you will end up, never
quite know who to trust, you think you've reached the end and
find that the marker moves again. Frustration, determenation,
hate, these are al things you feel, because like any great game
should, you arent sitting in your room playing as jack
(the main character). You are jack.
So this video is all i really need to demonstarte the idea
of the game, then we can get down to discussing it:
[youtube]J47ENHSomc8[/youtube]
This is what you see before you enter rapture. What is rapture you ask?
Before i discuss that il post this:
It was the end of World War ll. FDR's New Deal had redefined
American politics. Taxes were at an all-time high. The bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had created a fear of total annihilation.
America's sense of freedom was diminishing . . . and many
were desperate to take that freedom back. Among them was a
great dreamer, an immigrant who'd pulled himself from the
depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and most
admired men in the world. That man was Andrew Ryan, and he
believed that great men and women deserved better. So he set
out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government,
from censorship, and from moral restrictions on science, where
what you gave was what you got. He created Rapture - the shining
city below the sea. But this utopia suffered a great tragedy."
(from the book "Bioshock: Rapture" by John Shirley)
The game never tells you whats going on, there are pictures
scattered around, old newspapers, audio diarys, if you pay
attention, you can get an idea of what youre looking at, what
happened, who people are.
Rapture is the brain child of Andrew Ryan. Born Andrei Rianofski
in russia, he witnessed communism removing wealth and power.
He moved to America and made his wealth, then found that people
were still controlled, forced to fight in the world war, made to
pay there earnings, at that time rosovelt was focussing on the
poor using tax, enraging andrew tat government was meddling in
buissiness and the lifes of civilians.
He felt society was held back by big government, and even worse,
religion. The cause of wars, the constraint on society, forbiding
us to progress.
The solution? A hidden city, there would be no government
interference, religion would be banned, you were free to modify
human dna, to make art as you pleased, write what you wanted,
say what you wanted. There would be only basic tax to maintain
the city. Every man would be there own king.
But where could you build the city?
Quote from andrew ryan:
"To build a city at the bottom of the sea! Insanity. But where
else could we be free from the clutching hand of the Parasites?
Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to
control, a society that they would not try to destroy? It was
not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It
was impossible to build it anywhere else."
[img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/bioshock/images/5/54/Warnockbackground.jpg[/img]
As soon as you enter the city its imediately apparent, something
is wrong.
The man who comes to greet you is imediately killed by a 'splicer'.
These are the main enemys in the game which i will get to later.
You are confronted with a scene of decay, there are no lights left,
there are bodies of people holding protest signs, theres water
leaking into the city.
Without the constraints of government and religion, the citizens of
rapture progressed far faster than on the surface. They had tv's,
radios and lights, like on the surface, but they had more. They
created great works of art, legendary theatricals, orchestral
marvels, bathyspheres (a means of getting around the city, like an
underwater car), vita chambers (cloning platforms to enable
recreation of those who were kiled), and, greatest of all, adam.
On the ocean floor, they discovered a creature that modified human dna.
Athose who were crippled, blind, deaf, cured. Government would demand
thurough testing, religion would condemn playing got. Rapture had no
such constraints. Soon they were modifying the adam, humans could be
made stronger, faster, it was used in surgery, women could be made
beautifull in no time at all, and then they went to the next stage.
Plasmids. You could now puchase adam tonics that gave you permanent
powers. Flame from your hands, electricitys, hornets, ice, whirlwinds.
Mankind had broken its limitations. Before long those with augmented
dna outnumbered those of a pure strain. This was raptures peak, and
it maked itsfall.
Adam wasnt being made fast enough, they turned to increasingly disturbing
methods of precuring it, unhindered by god or ideas of common good people
only cared for numbr one. It represented a capitalists dream.
But like every system, there are those who seek to change it. At work
in the city, was a man who wanted control of rapture himself, Frank
fontaine, and eventually a civil war broke out in rapture. He had
made his fortune on the back of andrews fear of the parasites, those
who resided on the surface. Citizens werent allowed back up and goods
werent allowed to be brought from the surface, in case they learned of
raptures existance. Fontaine brought everything from clothes to bibles,
which were banned in rapture. Eventually this was made punishable by
death, further alienating ryan and weakining the idea of no government control.
Youre arivall sees the war having ended, both sides having all but destroyed
each other. The war resulted in everyone turning to adam, and arms being
created faster than ever. Theres no figures for it but i supose its safe
to say about 75% of raptures citizens were dead.
All that remain are splicers. There dna is so corrupted by there
modifications that they are mentally unstable, they killed thre own
children and famillys, and kill each other to get there eve, which
is an adictive substance and needed to use things like incendiary.
So thats the basic plot, in which iv avoided actually telling you a
LOT of stuff in case you evr play it. The plot twists in the game
are really amasing, i must have played the game about 8 times,
honestly. I always found something i missed the first few times.
In rapture, you have various arsenals.
The first level is guns.
You have machine guns, shotguns, rocket launchers, crossbows, pistols
etc etc.
Each of these can be upgraded 3 times, giving various advantages, e.g
crossbow 2 reduces the chance of bolts breaking so you can collect
and re use them. Level 3 turns the shots incendiary, pinning and
igniting your hapeless foe to the wall. The crossbow is probably
the most fun weapon in the game, but the ammos rare as you wouldnt believe.
For ammo you can scavenge, look for a working vending machine or
create them from components at a u-invent. When buying or creating
items you can reduce the cost in money (dollars) or components by
hacking the machine. Depending on what you do, if you fail you
either get an electric shock, draining your health, or you set off
an alarm and get attacked by the flying security drones (another
success of raptures hey day).
The next tier is plasmids. Throughout the game, you can gain adam
to buy these, by either killing or saving little sisters, little
girls who had been modified to produce the drugs, becoming grissly
looking creatures in the process. They are protected by there
modified human guardian, known as big dad
dys.
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ogBrOGWZ6EA/TlbcWLJSABI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/x3cqos_6XIQ/s1600/Little+Sister.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.cnet.com/i/ss/2007/0830_WillG_Slideshow/bioshock2_440.jpg[/img]
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RZLKjDpoXzM/SYr1UuCQDKI/AAAAAAAAAEc/_NUPdw7mbds/s400/BioshocksBigDaddy.jpg[/img]
Also, my layout is a big daddy, so you can see that too.
The big daddy will fight you if you try anything so to get the
sister you have to kill him.
They have lights on there helmet, if yellow they are neutral toward
you, green youve hypnotised them to help you using a plasmid, and
red, hes going to try and kill you. They are the toughest enemy in
bioshock, and on the harder difficultys will drain everything you've
got if you try to kill them.
If you harvest the sister, you get more adam, but if you save them,
you get a decent amount and gifts from there creator every 3 or 4
you save, including unique plasmids. I played through as good and
evil (harvesting them changes the ending) and the atmosphere of the
game, graphically, musically, and audio wise made me feel pretty
bad when i did the bad ending, it forces your actions home on you.
To use your purchased plasmids drains your eve, this is a bar that
reflects your ammo for plasmids. To recharge you inject yourself
with an eve hypo syringe.
Plasmids can range from security trap, whereby enemys are attacked
everytime they are spotted by security devices, to incinerate which
burns them,telekenisis which allows you to throw objects form there
own masks to gas canisters, right down to enrage which makes them
attack anything near them
The next tiers are tonics: physical, engineering and combat tonics.
Physical adds health, adam etc, combat increases thing like damage,
and engineering allows you to hack things with better effects.
All of those are passive and cost nothing once purchased.
Some tonics arent purchased but found scattered around the map, or
given for saving little sisters.
The combat is pretty intuitive and enjoyable, and due to your plasmids
there are many ways to procceed, electrocute enemys in water, enrage
enemy in groups, hypnotise big daddys to defend you, use the camoflague
tonic to become invisible until enemy pass you by etc.
In the game you meet various characters, each with there own view on
rapture and who will allow you a better insight to the world of rapture.
The use of music always keeps you on edge too, I remember i went into a
nasement with pretty creepy music going on and past all these statues, i
ran to pick up ammo and when i tunred round there was a statue right to
my face. Im not too proud to admit i just about fell out my chair,
especially when it attacked me 1 second later.
Graphics:9
If anything could be said to have let it down it could be stated it
was the graphics.
I dont know how to describe them really, i wouldnt call it realsitic,
i wouldnt call it cartoonish, its pretty much made a level for itself
and stuck with it. And it works massively well,dont get me wrong,
thats not actually why i raed it 8. I just noticed some things. One
is that sometimes when you load, or go to a new area, or even run
toward a spot, you may find that the game engine is just a little bit
behind, all the items are generated but you can visibly see them
being rendered, before theyre unclear, slightly blurred texture wise.
Its not widespread and not a problem but it did hurt my rating.
I dont know if it was better on pc, and im fairely certain it would
be the same for xbox.
The thing i love about the graphics is the creators have thought about
what they have put in there, they wanted to keep with the theme, which
was squalor, ruin, depression. Its like seeing something familiar to
you, maybe that you always loved, an old school or house, town or great
icon, in ruins. That remains through the entire game, so kudos on the
graphics, really.
A couple of times iv also seen weird things, like there was one little
sister left in the level and i was looking at her, but if i looked over
the balcony i could see another one. On killing the first's protector
and saving her, the 2nd big daddy was still there but his little sister
vanished, weird.
sound:10
The 2nd clip i posted shows quite well the use of audio in the game,
with well chosen and composed tunes throughout, reflecting the current
atmosphere, combat often having fastpaced music, moments of realisation
and nostalgia slower, sad parts eerys orchastral. And even when theres
not music, when youre just walking through the leaking halls of rapture
and you hear clanking as a splicer crawls around somewhere unseen, the
scream followed by a flash of red as they slice from behind, the roars
and clanks of the big daddys, the crys of the little sister. And the
scripts of the characters, the script as been well thought out and even
better executed. The vocals are always emotive, making it feel all the more real.
Addictiveness:10
If i rated it less i couldnt justify the massive amount of times i
played it. The game is great, if you were an evil little jot the first
time you can play it again to be good, and mix it up for the 3rd ending.
Explore areas you missed, collect audio diarys you never found, look at
the frankly stunning scenes. This game will never cease to amase me.
Story:10
Its fantastic. Such a dark depressing story. Humanitys greatest success
leading to its worst failure. Religion, capitalism, socialism, fascism,
greed, corruption, insanity, good, evil, it makes you tthink about it all.
In many ways it makes you question the very nature of life. The irony is
strong too, adam and eve being the plasmid source, yet also being a
religious reference. Little thingss like this crop up all over the game.
Depth:10
Rapture is truely massive, and theres a lot to see and collect.
There are no other objectives other than to get to the next area
really, being given tasks to acomplish this as andrew ryan, and
later other individuals, lock down the city and amass the remnants
of society against you. The tasks are well thought out and fun
to do, and the feeling of isolation is constant, only adding to
the beauy of the thing.
Difficulty:1
I mean this in terms of navigation and controling. Theres a nice
map system, good hacking interface, and an intuitive feeling
combat system. Obviously the harder difficultys effect combat dificulty.
Trying to fight a big daddy on hardest is a task and a half, you
really need to concentrate and think ahead, stockpiling armour
percing rounds, laying mines and plasmid traps etc. That added
another element to the game. Additionaly if you die youre revived
at the nearest vita chamber (that cloning thing i refered to), but
you can turn that off, adding another angle to things.
I would really suggest buying this game, for any platform, the
game is great. If you have the luxury of choice id buy it for
ps3 because the add on content that was released on xbox as dlc
was on the disk already for ps3, extra plasmids and such, plus
theres better dlc for it on the ps3 store.
I'll end with this:
"A man has choices, I chose the impossible. I built a city where
the artists would not fear the censor, where the scientist would
not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be
constrained by the small. I chose to build Rapture.
But my city was betrayed by the weak. So I ask you my friend, if you
live with pride, would you kill the innocent? Would you sacrifice
your humanity? We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us."
―Andrew Ryan

  Graphics 9   Sound 10   Addictive 10   Story 10   Depth 10   Difficulty 1

      Review Rating: 3/5     Submitted: 07-31-12     Updated: 07-31-12     Review Replies: 0

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Caught between powerfull forces and hunted down by genetically mutated citizens you come to grips with a mysterious and fascinating world that not only challenges your capacity to adapt and survive, but brings to question your values and commitments asking: Do you exploit the innocent citizens of rapture to save yourself or do you risk all to become there saviour?
Biologically modify your body and send fire storming from your fingertips und unleash hornets from the veins of your arms.
Turn everything into a weapon:the environment, your body, even your worst enemies

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