As gaming evolves, complexity and emotion become the name of the game. This game, BioShock, puts you in a role of (potentially) tremendous guilt - do you save the little girls to be the hero, or kill them to take their power for your own gain? Sick, yes, but also extremely interesting.
I’m really looking forward to the openness of the game, including how you want to upgrade yourself. As you go through the game, defending yourself against (or savagely attacking) both machine and man, you can biologically modify your character to grow magical abilities like command lightning bolts and shoot bees out of your veins. Seriously - bees. You can even alchemize your own bullets and hack into security systems to make enemy machines your ally.
I was really looking forward to Metroid: Prime 3, which comes out just a week after BioShock. Unfortunately, I can’t afford both, so I need to make a choice. They’re both in the first-person shooter genre, but never before has a shoot-em-up offered so much open-ended freedom as BioShock. For that reason, BioShock is sitting at the top of my wishlist right now. (Plus, I can always rent Metroid: Prime 3 and buy it once I’m done with BioShock; it’s much harder [dare I say, practically impossible?] to rent PC games.)
BioShock comes out on August 21 for both PC and Xbox 360.
Here’s some gameplay footage:
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Vash The Stampede
August 8th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I still can cant wait for this game, its gonna rule. it’s just too kewl, u got open ended enviroments, u have to struggle to survive, the story is gonna be about 20 hours longs *if u search all of rapture*, and it looks awesome.
Fat Ninja » BioShock Demo Impressions
August 14th, 2007 at 9:52 am
[…] the rave reviews just kept flooding in, so I started to take a little more interest in the game. Dean’s endorsement further piqued my interest, and I once more found myself on the fence. Then the demo hit the Xbox […]