BioShock (2007)

While the gameplay is a relic of its time and by our standards today is only average (as many have already complained about) the actual mechanics, weapons, and structure could use some assistance to be brought up to today's standards (also escort missions should be abolished for all eternity). This part of the game did not impact me as much as others, but the horror aspects of Bioshock should not be taken lightly and are fantastic at what they serve to do before you grow stronger and become more accustomed and less afraid of them as the narrative continues. However, that's not why I, nor you, should play this game today.

This game should be played today for its atmosphere, story, characters, plot, and the entire "vibe" of the game itself. In that way, Bioshock was and is revolutionary at what it excels at, providing a captivating, believable world that encourages the player to not just take things at face value, but to think about the themes it is presenting you deeply to come out of the experience a more learned and free person. An absolute classic of the genre for good reason, this game should be experienced by all people with even a vague interest in what it has to offer.

Siinä missä ayn rand henkinen maailma art deco-taiteineen onkin mielenkiintoinen, pelin taistelu on äärimmäisen sotkuista ja rasauttavaa.

Viholliset syntyvät uudestaan ja tuntuvat löytävän aina jostain selän taakse. Ampuminen on jatkuvaa lataamista ja eri ammustyyppien pläräystä. Usein aseissa on vain muutama panos, jotka pitää ampua, sitten vaihtaa asetta tai panostyyppiä ja ladata. Koska itemeistä oli krooninen pula, tuli paljon tilanteita, joissa looppaa rinkiä - ammu vihua pari laukausta, kuole, synny uudestaan, mene ampumaan muutama lisää, repeat.  "Taikavoimaa" ei voi käyttää samalla aikaa kun ampuu, ja sekin pitää ladata pikaisesti käytön jälkeen. Mikä hemmetin latausfetissi tällä pelillä on? Lisäksi aina jossain tuntui piippaavan joku kamera tai hälytys, kun juoksi väärään huoneeseen.

Jos positiivista pitäisi hakea, "pipe dreamia" kopioiva hakkeroiminen on ihan hauskaa, ja shock-mainen monialainen pelattavuus on ajatuksen tasolla ihan jees.

BioShock came as a total surprise to me when I first played in on my PlayStation 3. Its story, atmosphere and mechanics immediately got my attention.

It is a totally different game from other shooters where te goal is surviving instead of killing every living thing in sight. You need to be tactful, careful, resourceful and must use your surroundings to survive. Every decision you make, story wise or how you want to play the game has a huge impact on your progression.

This is a game you play for the story. It has the strongest story and plot I have ever experienced in a game. It is simply perfect. For this reason, I enjoyed every minute of the game to see what happened next. The developers put their hearts into this game and wanted to let you know what is happening in and around Rapture. I am not going to spoil it tough; this is something you need to experience for yourself.

BioShock still has impressive graphics and animations and the design of each level is a masterpiece in my opinion. Also, the ambient sound, speech and weapon sounds are really well done. It adds greatly to the experience. A shot from your revolver with surround sound on, sounds like a real bullet flying trough your window.

There are no complaints from my end for this game. Sure, on higher difficulties the game can be brutal and unforgiving but strangely this is the only game where I see this as a challenge, rather then an unfair fight or cheap death. The best example I have, is taking down a Rosie without any upgrades or Tonics on Survivor difficulty by letting him walk up and down on a platform.

The DLC challenges are lots of fun. They empower the things I said at the beginning of the review where you need to think, use your resources well and figure out the right way to progress further.

Like I said before, BioShock is and will always be the best game I ever played to this day. No other game today has given me the feeling of ultimate satisfaction, adrenaline, focus and joy like this game does.

Needless to say, I absolutely recommend this game.

Esse com toda certeza é um dos meus jogos favoritos!

Durante minha primeira gameplay, não estava botando muita fé, afinal, não sou tão chegado em jogos em primeira pessoa, além de que ao iniciar, é tragédia atrás de tragédia, e depois um lugar totalmente sombrio, com os Slicers aparecendo de forma inesperada na sua tela, depois de um tempo você se acostuma, é claro.

A gameplay do jogo é muito fluída e a história é magnífica, onde não é só com as cutscenes que você a entende, e sim, pegando as gravações de rádios e salvando as Little Girls (eu salvei todas, o que me garantiu o final bom, que por sinal é extremamente emocionante).

Acho muito importante prestar atenção em todos os áudios, e isso prende sua atenção, até descobrir todo o Plot do jogo, onde você estava a todo o tempo sendo controlado mentalmente após falarem "would you kindly?", te tornando um "cachorrinho que recebe comandos".

Rapture, Splicers, Big Daddies e as little girls são apresentados de uma forma sensacional no jogo, mostrando como a cidade deveria ser utópica e para a elite, até sua maior queda por conta da ganancia do homem e todas as outras questões.

Retomando ao "final bom" do jogo, é sensacional, onde você está prestes a morrer e todas as Little Girls te salvam, após isso vem uma incrível cutscene de você, já velho, morrendo, enquanto todas as Little Girls conseguiam ter uma vida normal.

Eu adorei o fator de Rapture ser uma cidade "livre" de religiões e crenças, mas os poderes que você ganha são chamados de "Adam" (Adão), e sua "mana" é chamada de "E.V.E" (Eva), trazendo esse aspecto irônico e sensacional ao jogo.

BioShock - First Impressions

I've actually played the beginning of this game quite a few times before and didn't really like it. I think that's partly due to being relatively inexperienced to games and also for being a child in terms of trying to look past to see what the themes of any particular game are.

That being said, coming back to it now was very refreshing. It's good, but similar to a game I also talked about today, it's good in spite of its mechanics. The base gameplay here is just as simple, you have freedom of what you can utilize but any particular action is point and click with very little dynamics between plasmids and guns. It's system shocky in that respect but the level design isn't particularly interesting and neither are the enemies, at least so far. System Shock definitely had a lot more to do at any time in terms of your options.

The aesthetics and story though are oh-so-good. Every radio bleeds the message the game is saying, every environment with its own story to tell, every chapter oozing fantastic atmosphere and pacing. It's a big great fuck you to Ayn Rand in every respect and I love it, a deconstruction of the libertarian's dream. So far it's been A+ and though I've been told the story flats out near the endpoint I can't wait to continue it at some point soon.

Memorable, dystopian, atmospheric, and ironic.

There are many, many great games in the world, too many to be able to play them all. If you want a game that you will never forget, then Bioshock is one of the leaders because of the story, environments, and the expectation put upon the player. This is one of the early games which included a morality choice which alters, although admittedly very slightly, the outcome of the game.

The game is not perfect, but it is very close. There is a lot to uncover in the plot and the game is replayable by changing the difficulty setting or selecting different weapons to use. I do not want to discuss any of the story elements because the discovery is worth the adventure. There is a remastered version out there which I highly recommend as this is a game that you will revisit.

Bioshock is a must-play if you enjoy games with depth, intelligence, and humor.

I gave this game 3.5/5 and this is why -->

Story: Story is very good and kinda attractive , you can be contained in the game easily through following up just the story , it was well created and they cared to the little details as well that make the story very good alone , also the political and philosophical conversation gave the game spices

Game battle system : they put under your service a whole arsenal from the simple wrench to grenade launcher and flamethrower , even the single weapon has three type of ammo , that's not all you can alternate your dna to have another abilities like causing electric shocks ,flames , throwing things and a LOT of other things Difficulty : I played this game twice on hard and normal mode , it's very difficult at the begining but turning out to be easy at the end specially with the bosses , actually i found it frustrating , the aiming system need some modification , but at the contrary the enemies are not so easy they dodges and tries to take advantage on you when you are trying to escape

graphics : the graphics are pleasing for the time the game was launched (2007) with a lot of details in the faces and background

Sounds : they used a thrilling sounds and a lot of sound effects that was taken from horror films that was good as for quality and to let you enter the game atmosphere but also the game don't have a distinguishable track or score

YAY FREE STUFF!

I just realised that anyone with any Bioshock game (1, 2 or Infinite) on Steam automatically gets a free copy of the new HD Remaster. This is cool! Lots of graphical upgrades, new physics, bug fixes and other bells n whistles. This gives me a perfect incentive to give this game another shot.

If you have any of the Bioshock games in your Steam, go to your Steam Library and have a look, you should be pleasantly surprised to see the new items have been delivered. :3

I actually played a bit of this game several years ago, when I got it as a gift (in disc form). I had problems getting lost and a really hard timing beating the first Big Daddy, and so when I got to the second one, I kinda sorta gave up. I have no idea what the hell my problem was. Sure, Big Daddy's are hard, but this time around I beat the first one no problem.

Anyway, that aside, I really loved Bioshock. The world of Rapture was possibly one of my favorite in all of video games, the perfect blend of old-timey futuristic extravagant horror. The plot, though not opaque, is incredibly deep, doing an excellent job of pulling the mute protagonist into the story. Slicers kept my attention to the very end of the game, and Big Daddy's are still a "ok how much ammo I got" kinda deal. Every gun was fun to shoot, as were the multiple types of ammo. And, of course, the plasmids made this game, as did the amazing amount of other tonics/slots/whatever that you can equip. All in all, killing things was a romping good time.

I already stated this, but I really liked the horror element. Constantly scrounging for ammo, checking every corner, and just the dark dingy environment. Even small things like feeling the vibrations of a Big Daddy's footsteps helped to make me feel uneasy throughout the entire game.

There were only three complaints that really came to mind. First, the hacking really seemed out of place and quite frankly, annoying. I hacked a lot of things, but I think you almost have to, to conserve ammo and money. It completely broke the flow of the game that you can be in the middle of combat and then time stops while you try to do a puzzle, one that -I might add- sometimes literally has no solution. Secondly, I never quite got the hang of using the F# keys to access plasmids. This is probably mostly my fault though, as you can also select them via the right mouse button + mouse wheel. But I tend to use buttons for quick reliable access in combat, meaning I used the Shift menu most of the time which, again, stopped time in combat. Three, the final boss (and one could argue, ending) was kind of meh. IMO.

Small problems though, truly. The game as a whole is a wonderful experience through and through. It was well thought out, well executed, unique, fun, challenging, fascinating, and many other adjectives that describe that it's basically a video game that I really enjoyed playing.