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Bioshock on Xbox 360 (2007)

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Average rating: 83%
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4 stars out of 5
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Certificate: Certificate: 18
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Developers: IRRATIONAL GAMES
Format: Xbox 360
Number of players: 1
Released: 24/08/2007
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Brief synopsis of Bioshock

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.

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Rated - 2 starssheeps go 'bleet'

sharpize from Macmerry , 27/08/2007

I've only played the demo myself but a friend of mine who has the game concurs...

10/10 xbox mag, 95% pc mag, 5 out of 5 - reviewers on this site. What's so good about it? Well, it is very very pretty. I spent a good long while just swimming in the intro bit just looking at the water and the flames and watching the plane go down.

But ofcourse, one has to get on with the game and that's where it all started going wrong. You see, this is what happens when a games dev sets up a team dedicated to making water look good and sets up nothing for a story. Because there isn't one. You don't understand what you're doing and you won't know why. Nothing makes sense either. Everyone is killing each other because they've used the drugs so what's the first thing you start doing in the game... you guessed it, you start injecting.

There is no interaction with scenery, no dialogue, no path options. You basically follow a set route of death and destruction from point A (the beginning) to point B (the end). Its Half Life, 60 years ago, underwater, except in Half Life you could atleast explore.

So what's new. Well nothing, except how you kill. Everything I wanted from this game is missing, including online play. This game will be flooding the 'preowned' bins in weeks, if not earlier. The check box after this comment is a joke 'Contains spoiler?'. It doesn't even have a point, let alone a story... let alone a surprise ending.

  100 out of 137 people found this review helpful

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Rated - 2 stars"Oh No"

John Turton from Sheffield , 06/09/2007

Oh No....... another FPS (first person shooter) only, well this one ain't half bad, well for the graphics anyway.

It trys to be something its not (A Good Game) fair enough the graphics are outstanding and the water effects are second to none but game play-wise its just another FPS trying to set its self apart from the rest but only it doesn't. You get the jist from the other reviews of what its about so i wont bore you with the same old same old. So my advice is if you want a really good FPS go for Rainbow Six Vegas the thought and planning you have to do as a gamer in that far out weighs this rubbish and if your in to online gaming Rainbow Six will give you many many many sleepless night's 'seriously im supprised my wife ain't left me because of that thing'.

  66 out of 96 people found this review helpful

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Rated - 1 starRubbish

EvilTaku EvilTaku from Rotherham , 24/06/2008

this game is ment 2 be amazing. well it aint. the graphics r great but the game play really takes it out of ya. such a frustrating game. i played it for about 2 levels and got really bored. all the side tasks r repetative and holds no variation. my m8 bought a copy not long ago even after i told him not 2 and its pain ful 2 watch him play. i strongly feel this game shud be taken off the shelfs.

  40 out of 70 people found this review helpful

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Rated - 5 starsGreatese FPS of all time?

A customer from UK , 14/08/2007

The demo of BIoshock is available now,And it really does look fantastic,this is real next gen gaming,right from the atmoshpheric intro,to the water effects you know this is going to be good,it has a real creepy feel about it(people talking,and a spooky voice singing)

I am looking forward to this title being released.

  27 out of 33 people found this review helpful

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Rated - 5 starsThis games rocks

A customer from reading , 22/10/2007

how anyone can compare this game to Rainbow six vegas is beyond me. They are 2 totally different games....bioshock is a glorious fast paced fps, whereas rs vegas is a boring slow paced thinking man's shooter which i think is poorly executed with more glitches than anything ive played recently - so bad i took rs vegas back to the shop after 2 days playing saying it was bug ridden rubbish - garphics are poor too.....unlike bioshock which superb and better than halo3 too

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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Rated - 5 starsMasterpiece!! A+++

welshboy from S.Wales [Highly rated reviewer] , 13/03/2008

A truly great game. I have completed it twice now (medium and hard modes) and will still play it again.

I can definitely see why it won the best game of 2007.

Halo 3 is terrible in comparison with bioshock.

BUY IT DON'T JUST RENT IT!

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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