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My NON-SPOILER mini-review.
Awesome. Immersive. Great story. Amazing plot twist. I love this game better then Half-life 2........................ 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
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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.