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Learning & Education | Home » » BioShock | | | | | | | Description: | | BioShock lets you do the impossible as you explore a mysterious underwater city. When your plane crashes, you discover Rapture - an underwater Utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by genetically modified "splicers" and deadly security systems, you have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. As little girls loot the dead, and biologically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn. Now you're trapped, caught in the middle of a genetic war that will challenge both your capacity to survive and your moral allegiance to your own humanity. Make meaningful and mature decisions that culminate in the grand question - do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture to save yourself - or risk all to become their savior? | | | Features: | |
• Biologically mod your body with plasmids - genetic augmentations that empower you with dozens of fantastic abilities
• Take control of your world by hacking devices and systems
• Upgrade your weapons at Fire-For-Effect stations located through Rapture
• Pick up materials in the city to modify them at U-Invent kiosks
• Explore an incredible and unique art deco world hidden deep under the ocean, vividly illustrated with realistic water effects
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.54 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.46 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.57 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Release Date:
| August 21, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 415 reviews |
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| Xbox 360 | | Media:
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 Perhaps the finest game this generation...so far.Aug 09, 2010
If somehow you've been living under a rock and don't know the storyline/twist of Bioshock, you have incredibly good luck. I recommend putting yourself in a media blackout about the game, and picking it up before somebody spoils it for you. I will avoid discussing the twist in detail below, so feel free to continue reading this review.
Bioshock is not a groundbreaking or particularly difficult game in terms of its gameplay. It's a pretty standard first person shooter with RPG elements. Likewise, its graphics engine wasn't cutting edge when it was released, and certainly isn't now. However, both these elements are quite good, and serve as an excellent framework for what this game does better than most that I've played (and I've been gaming heavily since the Intellivision).
What really makes Bioshock stupendous are its incredible art direction, soundtrack, and writing. These three elements work together seamlessly to create a cohesive masterpiece that creates a realistically complete fantastical world. Each and every element of the Bioshock universe makes sense relative to the others (although you may have to discover obscure audio recordings or do a little thinking to figure out how some aspects, like why the vita-chambers resurrect you and no one else).
It also has quite possibly the most brilliant plot twist in all of video gaming history. If you love great games, and you particularly love games that take the time to tell a good story well, you owe it to yourself to check this one out.
Simply FunAug 08, 2010
I just beat this game for the first time. I heard so many great things so I finally got it used. This game was extremely fun!! Everything about it was fun. I don't actually have any complaints. 2K did Borderlands and it was fun but definitely not on par with Bioshock for a FPS. The bio abilities and the weapons are great and the upgrades are all worth getting. I didn't feel like there was any "filler" in the game. Like everyone else I have my favorite and least favorite areas of Rapture but overall I didn't feel lost or bored at any point. Enjoy! :)
BioShock - Begining of an Awesome SeriesJul 02, 2010
Playing BioShock for the first time is an intense and very rewarding experience. Playing it for the second time is just as much fun, with a few more surprises to be found. After playing and beating this game three times, I can say that this is definitely one of my top ten XBOX 360 Games. We had come across this game by chance, and it had positive reviews, which could mean a good game or a group of people that have lost their collective minds together in a mass mental suicide. In the case of BioShock, I am happy to say that this game delivers. No spoiler here, so read on with safety of knowing the the characters are vibrant, the story is intriguing and engaging, and you will not regret this game at all. Minor things could have been left out, but overall 4 and 3/4 stars out of 5. The closest game to perfection that I have played in a while. For First Person Shooter / Sci-Fi RPG fans. This game is a must for your collection.
 very funJun 24, 2010
this is the game lots of people point to when discussing whether video games can be "art". I would say that the art design and the story are quite unique and the weaponry is fun. It has been pointed out, though (most recently in an IGN article about the art topic) that despite the great story, the game is still just you running around shooting things. And, in fact, I felt at some points that the variety of weapons had not been justified. Even when I beat the final boss, I wasn't paying attention to the weapons I was supposed to use (it's one of those classic "if the bad guy is fiery then use ice to defeat him; if he's ice use fire." and yet, I just used whatever and still beat the game on Hard on the first try.
Anyway, little complaints aside, this is a really fun game with a good list of achievements that are not ridiculous (though there is the seemingly required "find a thousand hidden items that add to the story but are not necessary". ah, game design.)
If you're not a big fan of first person shooters, you might find BioShock a little dull. But it's not overly difficult, so it stays fun.
 Not as "Great" as Everyone makes it out to be.Jun 19, 2010
Back in it's day, this was probably a decent title to play and own. But since it's prime is now gone, it's not much of a game to own nowadays.
One of my main problems with this title is that although the story was pretty decent, it wasn't as great as I thought it would be with what I've heard and read. It's story pretty much consists of being lead around by voices of people over a small radio that you'll either kill later on in the game, never meet face to face, or they die beyond your control (save for just a few people, but the instances are so far and few between that's it not even worth mentioning). With that said, it's pretty much safe to assume there's next to nothing of cut-scenes, save for the one that plays at the end. But it's not even worth watching due to it hardly revealing anything in particular or failed to strike a emotional chord (no matter how you played the game). Also, the infamous "Plot Twist" I found to be far from believable. How anyone could buy that for a second is just downright not bright or gullible to begin with.
Although I will admit I got easily immersed of the World of Rapture right off the start. If only the rest of the game could keep me there and not loose me through it as I progressed through it. Otherwise it quickly turned into a Linear Shooter even though it did have Sandbox elements to it. I think it didn't have enough of it, probably could use more openness about it instead of being cramped and dark everywhere you went.
Enemies after awhile become generic, since there's only about four or five different types of them aside from Big Daddies and Little Sisters. Final Boss battle was also a disappointment. It pretty much consisted of running around and blasting at it while it did the same moves over and over again.
Environments are impressive, but after you've seen one you've pretty much seen them all and this rings too true for Bioshock. What was also a sad fact is that it also felt there wasn't enough environment interaction to me. While there was a degree of it there, it only consisted of a few things like setting oil spills on fire or shooting electricity into pools of water. I want more than that.
It's probably good for one, maybe two play-throughs. Otherwise, it has next to nothing in replay value if not worth owning out right.
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