It is way overhyped and does not deserve the praise it is getting. My 2 cents.

It does, at least in my eyes. There need to be more games out there that have the originality of this enviorment and story. Also it's the first game since the Oddworld games that I know has a good ending or bad ending depending on what you do in the game, which is a first as far as my memory goes for a shooter genre.
You're not going to be bored with this game for a second because with every step you take you're on your toes waiting for some lunatic to jump out of the shadows.

The only nitpick I have about what I've played in the demo is the first few minutes... The guy crashes into the sea, is the sole survivor without a scratch no less, manages to swim to a nearby lighthouse and decides to step into the submarine thingy? Minus points for making sense of the story there because no person with more then 1 braincell is going to even step inside that scary lighthouse after he's just crashed and survived. I would sit at the lighthouse and wait for the coastguard :p.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I swear when they do pop up I always end up shrieking in fear. Damn my panic mode.

I got it the 23rd, yayness. The game is AWESOME. Just wait till you've had your first Big Daddy experience XD.

Though I have to say, I thought there were supposed to be alot more Plasmids. Now I keep ending up using the same Plasmids over and over again.



*SPOILER*

I tend to use Electro Bolt on anything mechanical, and hack it, and ONLY for that, since Static Discharge does the same, without using EVE, for biological enemies. Now, I could have one of the Engineering Tonics to make the hacks less difficult, but you'll only lose a little bit of health when you bring the fluid to a dead end (as opposed to losing ALOT of health when leading it to an OVERLOAD tile), and you can just try again. So I generally use the Hackers Delight Tonic (get Health and EVE whenever you hack).

I NEVER use the Winter Touch (or something like that), since it freezes your opponents, and they will shatter in a thousand pieces, therefore rendering you unable to search the bodies for loot.

I hardly use Enrage, since it would only be helpful when there's a BD with some Splicers, but the problem is , the BD kills them in 1 swipe.

The Cyclone Trap, I didn't even bother getting that. Who says the Splicers will walk over it?

Insect Swarm. Now this is one I'm pretty disappointed with. Remember one of the first Bioshock trailers? In which he injects himself, and creates a swarm of angry wasps? It's nothing like that.

Im generally disappointed with the introduction of the Plasmids anyways, when you got the Electro Bolt, there was this awesome cutscene. I just wish they did that with every Plasmid. Also, IF there IS a Teleport Plasmid, they've put it way to far into the game. I haven't seen it yet :(.

One last thing, some of the Tonics require you using the Wrench. Seriously, is anyone gonna use the wrench when you have a effing Grenade Launcher in your inventory?!

Other than that, the game is AWESOME. The atmosphere (heh, pun not intended) is very creepy, and the graphics are AWESOME (sometimes you come across a pool of oil/fuel/whatever, and it burns at a slightly different colour than, say, a Splicer). Also, the water effects are purdy, and I love the fact that the screen goes watery whenever you pass through a waterfall. Only minor error is the fact that water doesn't distort when you look through it. What I mean is, when you look "outside", to the rest of Rapture. You should have a perfect view, without any rippling and the like.

i'm glad you liked it mojo

now i can't wait for it even more :(

Play the game. You'll find out why.

Just finnished the game playing for the good ending... while I did enjoy the story up to the 'middle part' I was kinda disappointed by the ending. It seems like games these days can't have good endings anymore :(.

ooooh joy.

now i have low expectations for the ending :(

I thought it was a pretty good ending. Though the last fight was too easy. The Crossbow RULES.

Did you find all the Power to the People machines?

Hey, the wrench with all of the tonics added is quite awesome - why do you think it's the only weapon you can't upgrade?
The game was great, and I was not disapointed with the ending (good) - now all I have to do is play it on hard. There are things I'll do differently, but I think the main one is survive. One thing, I thought the respawing system was weird...

I'm getting it today, I hope. I finally have enough money...I can't wait for it.

I got it two days ago but I'll finally have time to play it in a few hours :D

uber yay!

BTW I got the Colector Edition!

Nice, Xavier, you can enjoy the sexy 6" big daddy.

Because of sheer dedication, and an actual belief, I'd have to say Metroid Prime 3 is better.
Simply because I want it to be, and don't even own it.

One answer: Monotony

Great Atmosphere in the first hours of playing, but after a while I recogniced, that it's all the same - whole time.

But hey, it's a nice game. But it's not a great game.

My NON-SPOILER mini-review.

Awesome. Immersive. Great story. Amazing plot twist. I love this game better then Half-life 2.. *cringes*
I recently beat it, saving every lil' sister (cause Imma wuss) and the ending blew me away. It was the first time my emotions have been tapped in a long time, and the absolute first that happened because of a video game. 10-10

My extensive review of the game: http://www.oddworldforums.net/blog.php?b=29

So Cool !
 

I am so on board with this!
Have even stopped to think about why this game has such a hold on me.

One thing would be the amazing art work that went into this project. Once you get past the fact this city is on the bottom of the sea, it almost seems real.
The artist did stellar job of portraying the mood of the place, opulence and
decay, beauty and carnage all at the same time.
I got smoked more then once because i was just looking around.

The story, IMO, was captivating, give this to someone like Harlan Ellison and
you would a very creditable novel.

The story line has all the elements of a Greek tragedy , egomaniac builds his
idea of utopia only to find that it fatally flawed, and than has to stand by as it turns in to a horrible parody of itself. The many layers of betrayal , a grand idea destroyed from within, Heady stuff for a vid game.

Above all the most astounding element, at least to me, was these sorry SOB
developers made me care about what happened in Rapture ! This is new to me, never happened in Doom, or M of H, or Morrowind, or Oblivion, or Half-life
or Gears of War, or Halo, or Fallout or any game for that matter.

The only reason I can come up with is that the antagonist in Bioshock, although majorly twisted, still maintain a certain " humanness" .
They are notsome super race from space or underground, a la Half-life, G of W, or
Halo, or some mindless hulk from the zombie trash games, no they were supposed to be the best and the brightest, driven to madness by their own hand, and of course a little genetic help.
Started to feel sorry for them after a while.

Having said that, I must admit taking great pleasure saving and going back many times to administer the most horrible death I could devise for Mr. Coen,
that was one sick monkey.

Two questions:
Why did you give me a crossbow, when I have all these neat guns ?

Answer: Because the F#cking crossbow rules!

Why do I not have " The Putter " when I got to talk with Frank ?

Answer: I don` know, but it would somehow seemed fair.


Oh, and Hobo if you read this, the entire time I did this could not help
thinking about Fallout, me thinks you will like this, mucho.

HEY, what the hell happened to my dog butt avatar ????

One last thing, would like to thank Havoc for his blog entry.
I rented the game and did it over the Labor Day weekend. have no idea how many hours spent on the 360 but never made the ADAM-EVE connection till i read the blog. To stupid to live.

Half Life 2, in any form, is better than this game.
Honestly, I'd take a strider over a big daddy any day.

Ugh. Somebody KILL ME PLEASE! (Yes! Now I want you to quote this and post something sarcastic!)

I bought Two Worlds instead of Bioshock, thinking it would last me longer. Two Worlds is ok but the voices are completely horrible and some graphics are bad, aaaand the cursed animation and camera are terrible. Other then those though, I actually like the game. But now I feel bad for leaving Bioshock behind the glass door...just sitting there. Crying. Thinking I hate it because I bought another game instead of it.

I feel like killing myself for doing this.

LOL. I heard Two Worlds sucks some balls, big daddy balls. If you wanted something to last you you should've tried Blue Dragon, friggin 3 discs.....

Deat Castlevania:Potrait of ruin for 1000% :D:D:D:D:D:D
Time for some DoS.

EDIT: The hell is that on topic!?

I cant understand the god damned Kraut what the wtf is she saying at the end lol. I think its the bad ending though. Which btw is gay it makes you think its gonna be longer and yet it stops.

If you mean Bioshock, she speaks in french, or francais, whatever.

*Spoiler*

If you get the bad ending, she tells you that you showed the little sisters all that you showed them before, brutality.

The good ending shows you being all nice and helping them escape.

*End Spoiler*

If someone feels that is a spoiling it, sorry, and the mods are free to edit it.
Oh, and I actually think That Bioshock and MP3 are on the same level, no biased opinions any more.

Actually, do you even know what a Kraut stands for?

It's GERMAN. As in Sauerkraut??? Does Tenenbaum sound FRENCH to you?

Heck the entire accent is as German as it comes. French, seriously?

lol when was the last time you heard French? It's obviously German, by the way she is talking about Nazism if I recall correctly. About the gene of sin or something like that

Really? Is there a possibility it was region sensitive? I am SURE it was french.

*checks on youtube*

Edit: French, I am Positive its french, and its reason sensitive, as well.

Give the link to the youtube video you saw. I'm interested to know how she sounds in my language :)

Here Ya go.

And it was the volume, Oddly enough, It is german, but I had the volume low so I heard french.

Spooky.

Still, in one of her audio diaries you pick up in the medical pavalion she says how she grew up in Germany so yea :P

I guess you figured out I just looked it up on Youtube then :D.

I plan on buying it.

Playing it, just had a break, it's awsome, from the moment you

*Spoilers ahead*
crash enter Rapture, and see the whale swimming through the city, it's just amazing.
A tad confusing without subtitles for the auidio recorders, as I miss some of the words, but the game is fantastic.
One thing, when that submerine thing explodes, I didn't quite get that, was that the family you were supposed to save, and was that blond man you see Atlas?
I'm in that garden place now, and am saving all of the little sisters I can, I assume that's what gets you the good or bad ending, the game has gone quickly however yet the boss is mentioned to be my next goal, which kind of sucks as I felt like it only just began and now it's going to end.
*edit* Actually, going forward It seemed like I was less than half way through, which is great!

The Submarine has Atlas' family in it.

I preordered this game for the day it came out. All i needed to know is that it had good gameplay and story and thats it for me. Its a brilliant game everything is near perfect -the characters, the graphics, the authenticity. The vioce acting is superb also. The only niggle i have is the shooting. Its quite hard compared to most first person shooters (partially because your screen goes red). But nonetheless, its a near masterpiece. I just wish there were more games around that had really engrosing stories and gameplay.

Oh ok, thanks, I must of misheard as Ryan's family.
*Warning, possible minor spoilers ahead*
And thanks for whoever blacked oout my text, I still can't figure out how to do it.
But I found out how to look at the auidio messages with subtitles so it's all good.
I feel so sorry for the big daddies most of the time, because they never seem to attack me first, but I understand that's what the game is about.
I did manage to find a freindly NPC, a plumber who was fixing the pipes under a desk in the Farmer's markets, he was quickly killed though.

I gave this a go, and somehow it's just for me. How can I not like a game that is essentially Deus Ex + Doom3? I have no idea. Sad.

I never got there. I didn't want to bother opening that gate and you only get the code 2 levels or so later. Going back didn't seem like it was worth it.

*Spoilers again*



I am stuck now, on that level with the poet pianist or whoever (The one who shuts off the raidio transmissions to Atlas and Ryan) I mean, it says go down Fleet hall, I do that, and can't go through the second glass door, which is now burned with fire and cracked but not brocken, also, there's a crate with a plamid/ gene tonic, I have the code (7774)but it won't let me enter it. There doesn't seem to be any walkthroughs to the game as I guess no one but me needs one.
Owell, great game so far.
*Edit* Got through that bit, didn't kill the boss though, now aparently I have to kill the boss but it seems there are several more levels.
Well you need to to progress in the game don't you? Farmer's market is quite a nice level, and has one big daddy, and although I hate the backtracking you have to, and it's not too far untill you reach the farmer's markets which gives you ingrediants that are usuefull for later.

i am in a split decision to buy bioshock.im not sure...
is it REALLY good?

Yes, the graphics are just mind blowing. And the game play is exactly like System Shock 2 (Which BioShock is the spiritual successor to BTW)