Bioshock is neither an FPS nor an RPG. It's an FPA

No ... you spend 90% of the time shooting / using long ranged objects / ranged magic .... its purely an FPS.

MP3 envovles platforming and puzzle solving, that is an FPA

I wouldn't classify it as a FPS.

I have played all Metroid games and all Shock games.

Neither Metroid Prime 3 nor Bioshock are FPS games. They are both Hybrids, and you need to play both this generation.

Ken Levine specifically said it's a shooter, period.mismajor99

Actually, now that I think about it, I think Metroid pretty much created the FPA genre.REVOLUTIONfreak

That would be System Shock. Though other first person exploration games came before it.

[QUOTE="mismajor99"]Ken Levine specifically said it's a shooter, period.smokeydabear076

Sony called the Playstation 3 4D. I don't care what Ken Levine specifically says, Bioshock is a Hybrid.

Bioshock lets you handle different situations in a variety of ways which is more than I can say for Metroid Prime. Everything is handled out of the barrel of Samus gun.

[QUOTE="REVOLUTIONfreak"]Actually, now that I think about it, I think Metroid pretty much created the FPA genre.Lilac_Benjie

That would be System Shock. Though other first person exploration games came before it.

[QUOTE="mismajor99"]Ken Levine specifically said it's a shooter, period.smokeydabear076

Sony called the Playstation 3 4D. I don't care what Ken Levine specifically says, Bioshock is a Hybrid.

FPRPS= First-person role playing shooter?

FPRPS= First-person role playing shooter?

TheDarkDisciple

I am looking forward to the sweet control scheme MP3 will hopefully be able to pull off... but lets not get too ahead of oursevles, the games is far from next gen or anything that wasnt seen in the last 2 games... and considering it has the only right to call itself and adventure because it has a bunch of static 1 solution puzzles to solve is pretty ignorant. Bio shock is realyl proving what this generation of gaming is all about.... It offers and adventure that you play on your terms... sure there are simple puzzles like hacking the security bots and turrets... but the puzzle and adventure is the game itself. With the ability to do pretty much anything you can think of to attack the big daddies, the replay is going to be crazy... so developing a battle plan is essentially a puzzle and this one has more then one solution... its not just run and gun.

do you really need to make more boxes to put games in to?

who gives a crap what it's classified as -- because it doesn't matter in any shape way or form.

We can all agree on that, can't we? It's an FPA with some RPG elements, and the game just so happens to be played in the first person perspective, but that does not make it an FPS.aleksanderson

FPS with some RPG elements imo.

Doesn't make it an RPG..but certainly bridges some gaps between the genres.

In that case I guess it's Metroid Prime 3: Corruption VS. Bioshock. This should be an interesting game battle... FPA's are kind of rare to find anyway. Actually, now that I think about it, I think Metroid pretty much created the FPA genre, as I have certainly never heard of the genre prior to Metroid Prime.REVOLUTIONfreak

Well it's easily determined by what the main element/s in the game are, outside of the first-person perspective.

[QUOTE="REVOLUTIONfreak"]Actually, now that I think about it, I think Metroid pretty much created the FPA genre.Lilac_Benjie

That would be System Shock. Though other first person exploration games came before it.

[QUOTE="mismajor99"]Ken Levine specifically said it's a shooter, period.smokeydabear076

Sony called the Playstation 3 4D. I don't care what Ken Levine specifically says, Bioshock is a Hybrid.

If you don't like FPS's, than you won't like Bioshock. It's a just a thinking man's shooter, nevertheless, it's an FPS and will be classified as such.

Depends on what you define an FPA as....Myst, Buried in Time, and Last Express are considered FPA. So it all depends on how you interpret the terminology. I'd go with what the creator says though. ;)Ibacai

According to IGN The Darkness is in the category FPA, and I actually agree with that. That being said I don't think Bioshock should be classified as an FPS.

It's too smart to be a simple FPS. It deserves a better designation.

If you can so arrogantly label Metroid Prime Corruption "FPA" as if it doesnt deserve to dwell below with normal FPS games, then you can offer Bioshock the same honor, given it's the MOST HIGHEST REVIEWED GAME OF 2007 currently and every review has said it's one of the smartest games to come around (storyline and design)