BioShock
Game » consists of 33 releases. Released Aug 21, 2007
Venture into the mysterious, Utopian underwater city of Rapture and discover what has turned it into ruin in this first-person epic.
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5 (97) 4 (25) 3 (7) 2 (1) 1 (1) 4.6 starsAverage score of 131 user reviews
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Bioshocked 0
The failed underwater utopia of Rapture is the real star of this shooter. The world is beautiful, even after its downfall. As you shoot, zap, freeze, burn, tornado, and bee your way through the leaking hallways and ruined pleasure parks you start to piece together what must have happened. It's a story of idealism broken by corruption. Imperfect men and women try to build a world unfettered by the stogy ethics of the surface world. A closet full of the blood stained dresses of murdered Little Si...
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A great achievement, which should be played again and again. 0
Bioshock is one of those games, which may have been a huge flop, but turned out to be one of the greatest single player games of 2007. Graphically the game looks a little cartoony but you don't seem to notice this as you will still gasp in awe, at the games environments and the setups that 2K have set for you. Water effects are amazing, as are other elements of the game such as fire, ice, electricity etc. they all look great.The storyline is great to unravel, as there is so many mysteries, twist...
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Bioshock 0
As a pure first-person shooter, Bioshock isn't that great. The variety of weapons isn't bad, and the plasmid and tonic super-powers that give you an edge are fun to play with. There's a lot of enjoyment to be had from sending swarms of bees after your enemies or launching them into the air with a small whirlwind. But the shooting controls are a little off compared to more dedicated games, and it can get tiring fighting the same stupid enemies over and over again. Even Big Daddies, one of the mos...
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Welcome to Rapture. You'll Like it Here. 0
One of the things we’re taught to do when we write is to leave ourselves out of whatever we’re writing. I'm not supposed to say "I" or "me" or anything relating to myself, but consider that rule broken. This is one of those rare cases where I will break the fourth wall. Why? Well, the experience that I’ve had with Bioshock is one that I can only tell from my perspective. Bioshock is a game that will leave a different impression on everyone who plays it. It’s a game that can be seen as many types...
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Bioshock (short) 0
I have to say that Bioshock is almost definitely the best singleplayer game i have ever played. The game just continues to amaze me and i keep finding things that i have never found before and doing things that couldn't even imagine even though i have almost completed it twice. The graphics are stunning, and the fact that the game is set in 1960 means that there is plenty of colours and great and inventive designs and so you never get bored of the amazing scenery. And i can't mention graphics wi...
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One Of The Most Unique Games EVER Made 0
Bioshock.The title of a game truly stands up for itself. You will be "Shocked" about how amazing this game truly is. Not only is it an FPS , but it is much, much more.I'm not going to ruin the story here for you, most of you probaly already know what the basic storyline is about. I'm going to discuss what actually makes this game unique from any other in it's genre.Bioshock is a First Person Shooter, but also has RPG elements. Once you start to play the game you will see that you make choices th...
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Welcome to Rapture 0
I first heard of Bioshock at X06 and It has peaked my interest ever since. Every gamer should do himself a favour and experience Bioshock. The game is a breath of fresh air amidst all the similar games out there. The emphasis on BioShock is awesome storytelling combined with amazing gameplay. This is the first TRUE next-gen experience because it pushes the envelope in every way! Gameplay: The gameplay is the best thing in BioShock. You basically choose how you want to defeat your enemies. You c...
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BioShock game that will haunt your mind as you wander Rapture 0
Have you ever wondered what would happen If the best and brightest of mankind lived away from the rest of society? To make a utopia unlike which the world has never seen? This is Rapture. A utopia made for only the best artists, scientists, philosophers, etc. But when you're plane crashes into the middle of the Atlantic and you find Rapture, you discover something has gone horribly wrong the instant you walk through. BioShock's story is told via audio recordings which you will find throughout th...
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Fantastic first person storytelling 0
Immersive...that's a word...that needed to be invented to describe a game such as Bioshock, a hybrid FPS/RPG game. A game that ever takes you out of the head of the character you're playing.The game plays out like a novel meets the Universal Studios theme rides. Though the game, in retrospect, has many complaining about it's difficulty, or lack thereof, at the time playing it you flat out didn't care you knew it was something special and an enjoyable experience all the same. Even beyond the "no ...
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Bioshock was a fun FPS/Adventure title despite many, many flaws. 1
I fell for the Bioshock hype and I fell hard. While I enjoyed the final product, I still had alot of problems with it. I think if Bioshock was strictly a FPS, then it would suck, and if it was strictly an adventure game, then it would suck, but since it combines these two elements, it seems better than it really is. That's only because there aren't very many one-player FPS out there right now. The biggest hype this game created was the amazing storyline and originality. While I LOVED the Little...
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Would you Kindly... 0
Bioshock is pretty much an interactive storybook. It's a game that is only faithful to it's single player campaign. The game stars a man who enters a undwerwater city of rapture were horrible things have occured that causes its citenzens to go crazy and attack each other, you must try to escape with help from engineer Atlas. The game is extremelly addictive and there is a mix of magic and weapons in the game to help you. The single player campaign will take 15 hours to complete, and you'll likel...
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A Masterpiece of Interactive Fiction 0
Irrational Games (now 2K Boston/Australia) has been around for a long while. While the company has a nice track record as far as critical acclaim goes, it wasn't until they released Bioshock that the company met with commercial success and was bought by Take Two subsidiary 2K Games. Of course this isn't a review of Irrational but of their glorious underwater epic, Bioshock.Bioshock tells the story of a nameless hero whose plane crashes in the ocean next to a mysterious lighthouse. Of course the ...
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Engulfed With Rapture 0
From a standalone single player standpoint BioShock will blow you out of the proverbial game water. This game can only be described in one word. Amazing. The game will suck you in so much that you actually feel like your there and you wont want to leave. Story: You are a nameless person on an airplane that unexpectedly crash lands into the middle of the ocean. You gain consciousness and swim to a lone structure in the distance. You walk down a flight of steps and step into a submari...
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Bioshock raises the bar for deep first-person experiences. 0
2K has done a fantastic job with Bioshock; their efforts to create a FPS, lite RPG and adventure game hybrid have paid off. Unfortunately it's only available for the PC and the Xbox 360 however. I have not played it on the PC but both games are the same content wise. Bioshock is also a single-player game only but the case says it has XBL functionality. I think this is a mistake as there is no online component in the game. I do believe that 2K should of made the game for all platforms though, bec...
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Bioshock is one of those games that has you in a trance! 0
Explore the underwater world of Rapture at your peril because something has definitely gone wrong in this magical city. The story is set in 1960, you play as an unnamed character who is travelling over the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane and your plane mysteriously crashes into the sea. You find yourself floating outside a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean and you take refuge inside and this is where you discover the bathysphere thats takes you down to the bottom of the sea to Rapture and your...
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Best 360 game of 2007. Period. 0
Ever since this game was announced back in 2005, i had no doubt in my mind that I had to get it. Between its stellar visauls and eerie storyline, I knew it would be a game like no other. From the moment you pick up the controller, to the final minuites of the last cutscene, it is simply an experience that you will never forget. The story starts off with you being some unknown character (for the time being) who is traveling by plane to go visit his family. Everything seems fine when all of the su...
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Bioshock Is Soaking Wet With All That Is Great 0
Bioshock is a game that impresses on so many levels. At first you will delight in the beautiful presentation of Rapture, then there is a different yet intuitive combat system and last there is an enthralling narrative that gives Bioshock a unique depth, tying every element together and raising the bar for story telling in any genre. If you are even the slightest bit curious than Bioshock is a must play and further it is a game that won’t disappoint.Bioshock takes place in 1960; you are flying ov...
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Unchallenging Work of Art 0
Bioshock was praised as a big step in the "game-as-art" movement, something the game absolutely should get credit for. It really is a beautiful game, great atmosphere, and gorgeous both technically and artistically.But you've heard all that before, I want to talk about my huge problem with this game, which really just made the game feel completely broken to me. Why make such a fantastic game, that gives you so many choices to make, but leaves out the essential obstacle of dying? For a such as th...
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Fantastical journey.You could hate game and still love Bioshock 0
Bioshock is a success in every sense of the word. Graphically, of course it's beautiful beyond description and creepy as all get out; much like discovering those rumors about Jessica Alba's health may be true. Haha!Critically it's incredible: everything from mechanics to gameplay...implementation to innovation...execution to immersion; it's all here and pulled off perfectly. Now yeah, if you have the opportunity play it on pc then do so...I mean it's a shooter and they're reaction time will alwa...
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BioShock 0
BioShock is a very unusual game. You find yourself in the place of a man named Jack who, after a plane crash, finds himself trapped in the underwater utopia called “Rapture”. Something has gone horribly wrong in rapture however and Jack must escape back to the surface. The creators of the game placed an unusual emphasis on moral choices which means the choices you make in the game will result in a positive or negative ending. Jack has multiple weapons at his disposal from genetic enhancement...
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Bioshock Experience 0
Bioshock is quite honestly the best game I've played on the 360 to date. Certainly the game is fun play and the setting is fantastic place to explore, but the real star of the show is the story. Lending heavily on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged novel, a topic quite heady compared to your typical shooter game fare, Bioshock gives players a vision of the market gone wrong. Some might say that the game shows the evils inherent in capitalism and the flaws in free market society, but, in actuality, Biosho...
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Another 360 hit but it's over so fast. 0
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>What was GIANT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>- Environment > The overall context of the game and the basic idea of being underwater is a very fresh idea that wo...
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Amazingly powerful 0
This game is in fact a story first and a game second. The average first person action facade is simply there to focus the overall purpose of the game, to explore the darkest area of mans mind. How far will one go for power?The setting of this question is set beneath the sea in a city named Rapture. The godless city was founded by one Andrew Ryan. A man with a vision of a city with complete artistic and scientific freedom. This vision manifests its self in an unexpected way. The inhabitants of R...
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One Of The Best Games On The 360! 0
BioShock was one of the most anticipated games this last year for the Xbox 360, besides the launch of Halo 3. And it very, very much lives up to the hype. It is one of the best titles for the Xbox 360 to date, besides Oblivion and Gears of War. BioShock has a very atmospheric quality to it like no other game out there. The graphics are very good, the envirnoments are immersive. But BioShock's true quality comes in its sound. Just walking down a corridor and hearing the moans and the footsteps of...
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As deep as the ocean's darkest corners... 0
Bioshock is many things. Yes, on the surface, it's a first person shooter. Dig deeper, and you'll find that it has several role playing elements involved with it's vast plasmid system. Fire up the game proper, and it starts lookin' like a piece of interactive fiction, like a Myst. But, actually play it, and I mean PLAY IT, and you'll find the experience really defies an explanation or label. It is, without a shadow of a doubt, just one of the best all around games I've ever played, and it's from...
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Bioshock is a deep and immersive tour de force of a video game. 0
It is for good reason that Bioshock was on many critics and players' shortlist for 2007 game of the year. Even if you aren't a fan of dystopias and first person shooters, you can appreciate this game. Many games claim to be cinematic but Bioshock truly is cinematic. You inhibit a finely-detailed, nuanced world that becomes a vital character in the overall plot. A plot that grapples with deep issues. The nature of capitalism and the perils of a completely free marketThe nature of civilization and...
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A great playing and looking game. 0
Bioshock is one of this years most anticipated shooters by Irrational Games, now known as 2k Boston. And Bioshock does live up to the hype. More so probably, because Bioshock is one hell of a game! Now I must warn you, this is not a 100% spoiler ridden review, I don't intend on giving away the ending or plot twists, but some things may be spoilers. Meet Andrew Ryan, a man who wanted to create the perfect city, a place where scientists didn't have to deal with religion, where artists weren't eff...
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Just amazing 0
Bioshock leads you into the a mysterious under water city named rapture. Rapture seems to have its fair share of issues as everyone seems to be just insane. The world is controlled by adam which makes plasmids that give you magic like power through the science of genetics. Gameplay is from a 1st person perspective. You really get that eerie feel that there is a ton of insane baddies out to get you, and that could be no truer. You have a wide array of weapons to constantly choose from. You can s...
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Great, although it includes minor gameplay flawls. 0
BioShock is a FPS Mystery that can only be described as, amazing. There are a few flaws, but you can get passed them without breaking something out of frustration. BioShock takes you into the shoes of Jack Jolene (other possible last name may contain spoilers), a man who takes a plane to an unknown location. During his flight, Jack goes into some kind of trans that leaves you to believe his either, asleep or blacked out. When he awakens, he's swimming in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where c...
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Favorite video game story 0
so far. Like I said with the Braid review, I don't give out perfect scores. I came really close with this one though. Let me make this clear, I was a die hard fan of Bioshock before most people knew it even existed. Yes this is the truth, and yes it is possible. I found out about this game by reading a bootleg copy of the GameInformer magazine that first announced it before anyone else. I read this article 10 days before it was released to the public and have loved the concept ever since. ...
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Everything's better, down where it's wetter. Under the sea. 0
Bioshock, by now, is a game that really needs no introduction. It's a game that absolutely knocks the door down and brings about the real "next-gen" that both Microsoft and Sony have been touting about since 2006. Easily one of (if not the) best games of 2007, and worth the purchase of a 360 in order to play it. The game is a first person shooter that puts you in the role of a man in search of his lost identity, and a man that gets dropped into the fantastical underwater world of "Rapture" afte...
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Talking: The Game 0
My thoughts about Bioshock are a little mixed compared to the general consensus. I’m not exactly breaking news here, but personally, I found the game to be somewhat overrated. It’s not the visual style that deters me. It’s not ideal but I don’t mind depressing dark places so much. It’s just that it feels like the video game part of it is hit or miss. I have to hit on the controls, an area where unfortunately Bioshock is the roughest. The elements are there for a different kind of experience but ...
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BioShock Review: Orwell with guns 1
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A mystery that will leave you sleepless until its solved. 0
Where to begin with this game? Theres so much good about this game and theres so many parts that come together to make this a superb gaming experience. I guess we start from the beginning. You are sitting in an airplane watching some family photos and reading the card that is glued to the nice present you got from your parents. The year is 1960 and you are crossing the deepest parts of the atlantic ocean in a plane that is thick with cigarrettesmoke. You dont know who you are or where you are he...
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Original design, and its never worked so well 0
BioShock is alot like a first person shooter slash adventure game. It gave me that similar feeling Half-Life games did back a few years ago. You know, a FPSer with massive scope. Now, this game is very well developed. The game looks and feels expensive and as if alot of TLC went into it over the course of production. Its so damn unique though. Its an underwater utopia frozen in the 1950s. The reason its still set in the 50s is because all the people went nuts and waged what I guess was some kind...
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Bioshock or How I Overcame My Cynicism and Faced My Fears 0
Throughout my experiences of gaming, I've often wondered if our relatively new medium of (dare I say it incase of slander:) art could be getting too immersive. Half of the thrill of video games is of course immersing yourself within the world of some alternate persona and in the case of games such as Bioshock in which the player assumes the role of a silent protgonist, it just becomes more inherent. Sure it makes the entire affair feel a little less realistic, with no verbiage coming from this v...
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Perhaps Bioshock Would Have Been A Better Novel... 0
THE GOODGreat Atmosphere Great Graphics Good First Half Of The Story Controls Feel Comfortable Plenty of 'WOW!' Moments THE BADSecond half of the story isn't as good as the first. Switching weapons or plasmids could have been less annoying. The endings feel too different. Final Boss drags the game down. Most enemies are introduced early on and are the same throughout the entire game. Endless praise seemed to greet Bioshock’s entry into the gaming market. It had a lot going for it. But in th...
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Stunning 0
ProsIncredible story with some very unexpected twists Innovative weapons Amazing world design Enemies are also designed very well Feels like a real place, as if its alive ConsSometimes rare autosave points will force you to save manually Sometimes felt like there should have been more ammo provided for me or more ammo locations PresentationEverything is done very well from the cutscenes to the animation and everything else.5/5GraphicsAbsolutely incredible. The water looks amazing. Character mo...
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I'm Melting... 0
Bioshock has it all: A eerily creative environment, weapons that change with the players' experience, and plenty of good writing. The storyline is intriguing, and the characters are eccentric.PROS: Bioshock not only delivers well as a shooter - but builds on the genre and challenges the conventional weapons and tools used in FPS games. The "plasmids" add a totally new dimension to what is already an entertaining game. Being able to use Telekinesis to throw objects or Fire to incinerate opponents...
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True Rapture Is The Harvesting Of Little Girls 0
For me, this game is far from perfect. First off; shooting dudes feels weird, and in a first person shooter that should be the one thing that the development team gets right. It feels almost as if there is a 2nd AD standing just off camera telling the Splicers when they should fall down. In turn this makes almost all of the weaponry (the one exception for me was the grenade launcher, which felt awesome) feel extremely underpowered and at times non-responsive. My next main complaint is; Plasmid...
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“Somewhere. . . Beyond the sea” 0
Beyond? Close, Mr Sinatra, but no cigar. Somewhere beneath the sea is more accurate here I think, and beneath that sea lurks a dark and sinister world of horror, madness. . . and little girls? Last year a good friend of mine purchased an Xbox 360 and a selection of games at a disgustingly cheap price. Somebody he knew needed the money to pay his rent, and subsequently prevent him from becoming homeless. One evening, after an argument with my – then -- girlfriend, I found myself at his flat...
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a breath taking experience from start to finish 0
Pros:1) Amazing graphics that you will lose yourself in while it may not be as technically proficient as Gears of war it is still very breathtaking.2) You can use different types of powers like fire, ice, and lightning to destroy your opponent all coming from the palm of your hand and every single power is a blast to use and there are over 10 of them.3) You can customize your weapons to make them stronger.4) Blood and guts.5) It is creepy and is bound to scare you at least 2 or 3 times a level.6...
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Bioshock Review 1
So I got myself an xBox mainly for the need of a new console, and partly because I was desperate to play the game that's given so many reviewers a big huge stiffy. So I went and bought it, got home and started to play.As soon as I got into Rapture I was confronted with a Spider Splicer. After it was chased off, I noticed I didn't see one until about half an hour into the game later, which kind of confused me. Shouldn't something I see straight away be everywhere? Or did this one splicer run off ...
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All good things of this earth flow through this city. 0
This game left a huge impression on me. I find it to be one of the most amazing games I have ever played. It will be some time until we see another game quite like it.The graphics are stellar. The textures rival other graphics intensive games. The fire effects are spot on. The lighting is fantastic. What truly stands out is the amazing and ground breaking water effects. It flows just like water should, and is so detailed it really looks like water, as weird as that sounds. It's seriously the bes...
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