BioShock

Bioshock gives you an overall feel of everything you want in a shooter game!

User Rating: 8.5 | BioShock X360

By nocturnalkisses | Review Date: September 18, 2007

First of all, this game has everything in a first person shooter that other first person shooter games lack. Bioshock has a variety of ideal elements that wraps it perfectly for any gamer. First, Bioshock has a light RPG element to the game. You can customize the protagonist's abilities by purchasing upgrades at the vending machines or 'The Garden.' You can purchase powers called "plasmids which are spent using "Adam." Other things can be purchased to alter the protagonist's in his abilities to hack machines, to inflict more damage, increase EVE or health bar, or to raise defence. By adding a light RPG element to Bioshock, this strands away from the "same game play" as other first person shooters where you shoot and go to another place. This RPG element gives gamers a little breathing room to expand on the game play. Next is the story of Rapture. The story starts off confusing but when the pieces starts to come together, Bioshock is wrapped up in a solid nutshell; not to complicated to understand not too easy to take as an insult. The Big Daddies are fairly hard to beat. It takes strategy and patience to defeat them. Bid Daddies are the bodyguards that protect the little girls in which the protagonist either has the ability to Harvest or to Safe them.
The Negative in the game are the 'Vita Chambers.' Vita Chambers revive the players where they died from without any penalties. This leaves the game too easy to beat when the player is revived with ALL items started with. This can make the player reckless at playing the game without fear of suffering any significant losses. This takes away from the challenge of strategy.

The Graphics are simply amazing. The detail and the sound of Bioshock makes you feel in the game.

Difficulty is just right. They present the setting of Easy, Medium, and Hard. Which can be set at the players likings...

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