I've been playing this game for about 5 hours now... so here's the review so far. This is a first person shooter, where you can upgrade your character with various powers. The environment is definitely different and appealing. You're underwater, and it's 1960! So there's a nice juxtaposition of oldies music and style and modern technology which is quite refreshing. The storyline, which you uncover as you go along by listening to diaries people have dropped, is quite interesting. The game has the right element of creepiness, which it combines with eerie 60's music... a-la "The Shining", which makes it quite atmospheric. Now a couple of issues with the game... first, the shooting physics are not very good for a shooter. Your opponents move around way too fast for any kind of "aiming" which you may be used to playing good shooters where you can creep up and snipe people... it's basically aim in the general direction and fire away. Much more arcade feel than a realistic shooter feel. Second, there's definite driver compatibility concerns with the sound and the graphics. I have an Nvidia 7900 GTX, so I'm running directx 9, and the bloom effects are poor, especially when there's supposed to be myst. The sound had lots of crackling when I had EAX enabled and I had to turn it off. The opening scene had parts of the sky missing... but I've had no crashes. I definitely recommend this game, it will appeal to both RPG and first person shooter fans.
I finally got around to finishing System Shock 2 a couple months back because I heard about how great BioShock was, and I wanted to finish SS2 before playing BioShock so I went into BioShock with System Shock 2 still fre... Read Full Review
This game presents itself wonderfully, from the music to the beautiful style of the underwater city and the brilliant voice work, putting this game a class above most. The game feels very polished and you can get a real ... Read Full Review
