All 1st person shooters should take a look at this highly polished and very playable masterpiece.
The requirements are high, but the rewards are staggering in terms of graphics, sound and playability. You'll never forgive yourself if someone in the future asks "Did you every play Bioshock?". So armed with a cup of coffee and the subwoofer turned up, we're off to the past .....
The games begins with you, aboard a play listening to a tape recorder aboout your parents .... then .... your swimming in the sea. Straight away this is where your graphics card gets a work out. More shadows, reflections and waves of fire than any other game I've played, and we're about 30 seconds into the game. Your life is about to be cut short unless you swim over to the light house, where the game reveals what it is all about.
The bathosphere awaits to take you down to an underwater city called Rapture where the local folk have been poisned with only death on the mind, and people's organs for dinner. You'll roam around for awhile in amazement just looking at the detail in the environment, but wait here comes your first attacker.
As the game progresses you'll need to track where you've been, so a handy little mapping system will point you in the right way, along with the mission goals. Once you've found your way, the locals will need to be dealt with your amazing weapons ... oh you don't have any. Well search your victims for an array of items for your protection.
If you cant get any weapons, there's handy machines that'll let you top your health, buy ammunition, and special items that you'll need later. You have health, then you have EVE, which is your energy for your special abilities. You can buy this, find it in places and earn it depending on your GENE configuration.
You Don't know about geneology? Well then off to school to learn it, cause you'll need to program your genes so that you have different abilities to deal with the array of baddies, including "MR Bubbles". NO this is nothing to do with Michael Jackson, but a major baddie that takes a little more firepower than your average hand cannon.
With so much going on, you forgot to stop and listen to the background noises from people moving around, the music and sound effects from the security cameras.
The game has so much to offer and after playing it for so long, I just want it to go on forever which is another great positive for the game, the large playing fields. Your never waiting to load that "Next part" each level is complete until you move onto another part of the city. Greatness all round.
As I said, any 1st person shooter player should've played this once, twice, 50 times, it'll always be installed on my computer.