They took out the hacking?? I guess some people didn't like it, but I never got on my nerves. And i never thought about it giving you a breather, but I guess it did give you a chance to relax.

I prefer the ticker hacking. Trying to hit a blue marker while a horde of splicers try to wreck you is intense.

" I prefer this new style.  I've seen a Wii game which totally rips off Bioshock's pipe hacking thing, you should buy that instead if you liked it so much "

No way.

uh, what?
I loved the first Bioshock, but the hacking system was retarded.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. They had the world's most brilliant minds down there in Rapture and the best thing they could come up with is blue juice in tubes? Plumbing?

it's pipe dream

if I cared to play pipe mania , I would do so myself. I definitely wouldn't miss that mini game.

" I prefer this new style.  I've seen a Wii game which totally rips off Bioshock's pipe hacking thing, you should buy that instead if you liked it so much "

Actually, I liked it too, but it certainly wasn't the first time I'd played it. A lot of people thought it was goofy in a bad way, but I still enjoyed it.

Anything that stops time in a survival horror type game is a step backwards that takes you out of the experience. It's basically cheating. Nothing you did in the game world stopped time in System Shock2 and it was a better, more tense experience for it.

The new one is much better, it doesn't break up the flow of the game like the pipe maze did. Not that pipe mazes weren't fun, but I can't say that I miss them.

New hacking is way better.  The hacking from the original game was nearly game-breaking where I'm concerned, and I had a couple of friends actually stop playing the game and trade it in simply because they felt that that specific portion of the game was overblown.

I loath the new hacking, its another sign that the sequal is a fast paced fps with little to no adventuring like the 1st...much cause alot of the talent from the first aren't part of the development of the sequel.

I prefer the new style of hacking.

" I prefer the new style of hacking. "

i no problem with the hacking in the first game. its a bit tricky once you add blown circuits and alarm triggers to the mix.

I finished Bioshock for the first time a few hours ago, and I doubt that I will EVER miss that tile game.

I haven't played BioShock 2 yet, but I was disappointed when I heard they changed the hacking. Man, I freaking loved hacking in the first game. I did it as often as I could.