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Bioshock (Xbox 360) | 
| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
New (3) Used (2) from £14.79
Avg. Customer Rating:  109 reviews
Sales Rank: 1193
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5026555246415
EAN: 5026555246415
ASIN: B000V1VZMK
Release Date: August 24, 2007
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| Features:
| • | After your planecrashes in icy, uncharted waters, you discover the hidden city of Rapture | | • | It was built by a team of scientists, artists and businessmen who dreamt of a perfect world, but their ideal has been smashed and the city is now overrun with corpses | | • | Powerful guards survey the town's streets, children loot the corpses and genetically modified citizens have only one objective in mind - to kill you! Are you prepared to put your humanity on the line to save your skin? |
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Product Description
After your planecrashes in icy, uncharted waters, you discover the hidden city of Rapture. It was built by a team of scientists, artists and businessmen who dreamt of a perfect world, but their ideal has been smashed and the city is now overrun with corpses. Powerful guards survey the town's streets, children loot the corpses and genetically modified citizens have only one objective in mind - to kill you! Are you prepared to put your humanity on the line to save your skin?
Developer : Irrational Games
Official site :
Minimum age : 18 years
Game setting : Futurist
Orientation : Action / First-person shooting game
Violent : Yes
Multiplayer mode : No
Network mode : No
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| Customer Reviews: Read 104 more reviews...
 Great setting, weak gameplay November 27, 2008
Beautiful graphics, wonderfully atmospheric setting, but you can't avoid the fact that the gameplay is extremely weak. Once the novelty of the setting and the idea of genetic upgrades wear off, you're left with a game that although using the Unreal engine, doesn't really make very good use of it, and underneath all the decoration, is some fairl weak first-person-shooter combat.
Exploring is easy, just follow an on-screen arrow to where you need to go, you'll rarely be lost.
But combat is what keeps a first person shooter playable in the long term and here it's the worst aspect of the game - you know when a game gets combat right, such as Gears Of War or Half Life 2 - the weapons have the right feeling of weight to them as they fire, the enemies recoil satisfyingly from a good hit, they try to avoid your shots, attack you in a strategic manner - alas this game gets it all wrong - the enemies generally just run straight at you (admittedly they're all suppposed to be deranged mutants, so it fits the story, but doesn't make for interesting combat), the weapons have no feeling of weight, it feels more like just keeping the aiming cursor on them while you hit fire to trigger the "fire" animation and reduce their health until they go into the "die" animation - it's not strategic or satisfying or immersive and is far less fun than even games as old as Quake II - in fact I don't think I'm exagerating to say that the weapons and combat in Doom were probably a bit more satisfying than this.
However, if you want a truly beautiful setting, and good story - it's all here - but the gameplay isn't something to be enjoyed and savoured, it's more of a chore you have to go through to unlock the story bit by bit - unlike a really playable game, you won't go through a section and think "Wow that was fun, I'll enjoy replaying that bit next time around", you'll be thinking "I'm glad that bit's out of the way, now I can see some more of the story and beautiful design." I can imagine a lot of people will find it worthwhile to play through once to see the story, but I can't imagine many people at all would ever want to play through this a 2nd time. It would have worked better as a movie.
 Would you kindly... November 17, 2008
Lets be honest, there is not usually a time or a place to rip the "evil" from the head of a small child, but here is one.
You start the game on a plane with no idea who you are or what the hell is happening, then it crashes and everything goes horribly wrong.
I wont ruin the rest of the story but suffice to say it is weirder that a chipmunk, in space, on helium.
In a brilliant master stroke the player is given control over basic environmental powers, such as fire, electricity and obviously telekenisis, wait...what?
Yup at some point in the game you get to catch grenades/rockets and fire them back at your enemies, but that is not the best bit.
The best bit is surely the enemies in the game.
Yes, they lack any kind of intelligence but damn are they weird. Splicers are basically humans on 'roids, but gone wrong. Like Arnold with a machine gun. That wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the masks... i will leave you to find those out for yourselves. Then there are the Big Daddies. Wow, now whoever thought, "Hey lets make a creepy underwater diver into a massive monster with a chainsaw for a hand!" must really have been on something, but they are by far the best characters in the game. Cute yet dangerous, i love it!!!!
Great. November 2, 2008
This is one of the best FPS games ive ever played. It starts off quite scary, i found myself to be very cautious, but once you get used to it, get some good weapons and plasmids you will go in blazing hands of ice and fire reigning destruction a pone everything. please note: a good way to kill a big daddy is simply set up about 7/8 trip wires and let him run at you, pop some RPGS at him and job done!
Highly recommended.
 rubbish October 22, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
the game plays very bad and i would advise evryone not to buy its very short and easy
Almost Perfect October 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As the title and the scores might give away, I rather liked this game. Tell a lie, I adored it. I adored it so much that the first time I completed it, I was straight back on the first level trying to go through the game to find anything I missed on the enormous and immersive levels. I'm now playing it through for a third time, and I'm still finding huge chunks of levels that I had missed. So, despite the lack of a multiplayer (which is almost blasphemy on a FPS these days), there is more than enough to keep you coming back.
Let's skate over the basics. The graphics are superb and detailed, particularly in the water effects. The voices of the various monsters never get repetitive and the voice acting on the audio diaries that are scattered sporadically (left by the former inhabitants) is absorbing, atmospheric and sometimes even genuinely moving; a vast improvement from the flat and flavourless audio logs in 'Doom 3'. The music is a mix of nostalgic gramophone warbles to chilling eerie violin howls and odd clangs that are almost certainly a direct steal from Kubrick's 'The Shining' and the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. Absolutely nothing wrong with that at all - it just helps to ramp up the tension.
Walk down a dark corridor and hear that single high pitched wail getting louder and louder. Then be ambushed by multiple monsters whilst a nearby jukebox happily bangs out 'How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?' Yes, this game does have a black sense of humour.
The way the character can use ordinary weapons and his psi-powers is handled easily (using both triggers, one for each). The powers range from fireballs to telekinesis to electro-bolts. As the entire game is immersive, you can kill in almost any way you see fit. You can shock people standing in water, you can set fire to oil slicks and burn them alive or you can hurl explosive barrels, chairs, cash registers, bodies.. well, you get the idea. You can go through the entire game and not have to fire off a single bullet in anger.
I don't really want to ramble on too much more, so I'm going to have to skim over the fantastic plot, the impressive AI of the creatures, the moral choices you have to make in the game to determine your character and the way you can hack security cameras, gun turrets and other enemy equipment. You've probably got the idea by now anyway. Forget Halo, forget Half-Life, this is the best FPS I've played since.. well, probably Goldeneye for the N64. And that's just about the best game I've ever played.
Faults? Erm.. Hmm.. Well.. I suppose, if I wanted to nit-pick, the weapon reload can be a bit dim. Sometimes, you'll think you've reloaded your gun, then switch to a plasmid, then switch back to the gun and find it is empty. And the ending is a bit.. short. But then, there are three of them. You may even see it as a blessing - a short no nonsense ending means you can get back into the game to do, as I have done, and revisit all the wonderfully crafted levels.
So there you have it. If you're looking for an absorbing, moving, challenging, occasionally terrifying, immersive, massive, atmospheric FPS then you cannot do any better than this. If you aren't looking for any of the above, I suggest you change your outlook, alter your tastes and raid your piggybank.
I dare you to be disappointed.
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