...a soggy bleh
Played Through in Spring 09.
So…you play as this Airline Passenger…who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the ocean. Good for him, there’s a light house only a light swim away. Bad for him, that light house is actually the gateway to a fallen psychopathic, telekinetic, dentally deficient society bubbling under the sea. Hope you stowed away some airline peanuts in your pocket…you might get peckish.
Man…BioShock. …such an engrossing experience. I say the word experience, because some times, certain forms of media are able to transcend their mediums and become more than their category. See to me, Bioshock was MORE than a game, it was an Experience.
I truly felt I was part of this Utopian City called Rapture that had been torn from the inside out by humanity. This game's origninal, dark, edge of your seat Plot made me laugh and jump and doubt and think, I mean it truly brought out emotions in me akin to what my character was feeling, which is remarkable.
The mixture of First Person Shooter with Survival Horror is so perfectly attuned, that I bought into every scenario, every environment, and every character. I was there.
I feel HORRIBLE not finding much negative aspects to critique. Lack of Multiplayer? Maybe? I don’t think so…it seems irrelevant for this atmospheric game. Replay ability? No, because between its hard mode, multiple endings, clever trophies, and add-ons, there’s more than enough to return. My ONLY gripe is with the repetitive puzzle solving hacking game. Towards the end, instead of making the hacking more difficult by design, the random generated pieces start to stand out as being truly random, leaving you with situations where there’s only one option and yet you don’t have the means available to complete it (damn you L-Block)
I don’t know…BioShock is just one of the most Re-fined and Detailed games I’ve played though in years. I AM interested to see where the series will go from here though, either bastardizing the franchise or pure ingenuity…one or the other…sink or swim…(nice little ocean joke there, yea…enjoy that)
