Looking forward to Bioshock 2 but..

Honestly I thought Bioshock 1 was way overrated and not that good. The idea was really cool but it was just too much of the same. The weapons mostly sucked and were not fun and the story was good but nothing that really hooked me.. On the Gamespot scale I would have given Bioshock like an 8.0. But sequels are so overy hyped these days... Sometimes I think we get a little overly excited for things maybe we didnt even like that much the first time.

The exception for this for me personally is MAFIA 2. You could not name a sequel that im looking forward to more. Nothing. (I have played MAFIA 1 all the way through 5 times!)

I agree Bioshock must go down as one of the most overrated games in history.

It is, without a doubt, an exercise in repetition. For all the talent, effort, and time put into developing Bioshock, the gameplay came down to simplistic, boring ways of dispatching enemies.

You either froze and shattered, electrified and shot, or another one or two methods.

And this sufficed for 98% of the game. This is the greatest crime, too; the game simply didnt use the huge variety of tools, powers, and weapons given to the player. There just were not a lot of opportunities to experiment.

Add to this predictable, stupid, and bland enemies and there is just no challenge to the game. You could hear the Splicers' moanings and wailing from yards away and get the jump on them. The occasional Big Daddy encounter was definitely cool, but hardly justification to invest time to play the game.

While Bioshock is a solid game, even a good game, it is without a doubt the greatest disappointment in my gaming career.

It just a matter of taste, I found Bioshock to be amaxingly good, and worth every penny. I just pre-ordered Bioshock 2. Yet to me COD4, COD5 WaW and MM2 all suck. If you didn't like Bioshock, why on earth would you even remotley consider the sequel?

The first one had amazing atmosphere and a very good story imo. its the Variety and gameplay that needs a improvement imo.

Bioshock gameplay was terrible, terrible, terrible.. It is a bummer because everything else in Bioshock was extraordinary. Despite that the gameplay literally made me fell sleep at the keyboard in multiple sessions. Why the public exalted the gameplay is a mystery in itself.

Honestly I thought Bioshock 1 was way overrated and not that good. The idea was really cool but it was just too much of the same. The weapons mostly sucked and were not fun and the story was good but nothing that really hooked me.. On the Gamespot scale I would have given Bioshock like an 8.0. But sequels are so overy hyped these days... Sometimes I think we get a little overly excited for things maybe we didnt even like that much the first time.

The exception for this for me personally is MAFIA 2. You could not name a sequel that im looking forward to more. Nothing. (I have played MAFIA 1 all the way through 5 times!)

BackHatch

MAFIA 2, i am also SO SO SO hyped for it.