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BioShock

Customer rating on BioShock: 4 out of 5 stars ( 126 customer ratings )

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Special Features

 

  • Take control of your world by hacking mechanical devices, commandeering security turrets and crafting unique items critical to your very survival.
  • Upgrade your weapons with ionic gels, explosives and toxins to customize them to the enemy and environment.
  • Genetically modify your body through dozens of Plasmid Stations scattered throughout the city, empowering you with fantastic and often grotesque abilities.
  • Explore a living world powered by Ecological A.I., where the inhabitants have interesting and consequential relationships with one another that impact your gameplay experience.
  • Experience truly next generation graphics that vividly illustrate the forlorn art deco city, highlighted by the most detailed and realistic water effects ever developed in a video game.
  • Make meaningful choices and mature decisions, ultimately culminating in the grand question: do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture... or save them?

Review

 

BioShock is a revolution in the shooter genre that will forever change the expectations for the FPS. Going beyond "run and gun corridors," "monster-closet AIs" and static worlds, BioShock creates a living, unique and unpredictable FPS experience. BioShock is the Shooter 2.0.

After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on BioShock: 4 out of 5 stars

Average rating (126 reviews)

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars A combination of classic games

Moj0Jojo | 12/11/2008 | See all Moj0Jojo's reviews (21) »

The gameplay of Bioshock is like a combination of System Shock (its spiritual predecessor), Thief 2, Half-Life, Deux Ex, and Jedi Knight 2. This is not a criticism, since all of these games were excellent, and Bioshock combines many of the ideas and features of these genre classics to create something new, just not necessarily original.
Bioshock's crowning achievement is in its storytelling, amazing visuals and characters, which makes it utterly compelling. It's not surprising that a feature film is in development, along with further sequels, as it's a story that just begs to be continued and expanded. And the plot twist toward the end is just genius.
If you're an FPS or RPG fan then this is an essential addition, and for it's new budget price it's an unmissable bargain!

Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars The Godfather of Games

Paddymac | 11/11/2008 | See all Paddymac's reviews (3) »

Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars Mystifying

HawkEye88 | 03/10/2008 | See all HawkEye88's reviews (6) »

Technical Details

 

18+ (BBFC)

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 / Vista
2.4GHZ Pentium 4 Single Core processor or equivalent (Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent recommended)
1GB RAM (2GB recommended)
8GB HDD Space
128MB NVIDIA 6600, ATI X1300 (excluding ATI X1550) or equivalent (DirectX 9.0c compliant)
Sound Card (DirectX 9.0c compatible)

Recommended Graphics & Sound Hardware:
For DirectX 9: 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or equivalent (Direct X 9.0c compliant)
For DirectX 10: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or equivalent
Sound Blaster X-Fi series (Optimized for use with Creative Labs EAX Advanced HD 4.0 or EAX Advanced HD 5.0 compatible sound cards)

Please Note! Game requires Internet connection for activation.
This information is based on specifications supplied by manufacturers and should be used for guidance only.