Bioshock

So Bioshock 2 is coming out on Tuesday and I am very excited about it, so I thought I would take the time to write a quick blog about the first Bioshock game which I played back in November.

In 2007, a new first person shooter was released on PS3, PC and Xbox 360 by 2K games. This game promised to bring First Person Shooters to a new level, and my god it did! Plasmids, Weapons, a vast undersea city and of course...the big daddy!

Lets break the game down into sections, first off the Story.

You start off by being the only survivor of a plane crash, all you see beforehand is a package with a note and a photograph of a family...then, the plane begins to shake and all goes black. We hear screaming, explosions and a huge splash. When the scene fades back, we are in the middle of the sea surrounded by fire and wreckage. In the distance, the tail end of the plane slowly sinks.

And this is where this amazing game begins. You find yourself swimming towards a lighthouse which is the entrance to the underwater city of Rapture where the entire game takes place. You climb into a submarine-like machine called the Bathosphere. This takes you down to Rapture. You get a beautiful sweeping scene of the city as the bathosphere approaches it's docking station. Octopi, whales and fish swim by the window of the bathosphere adding to the beauty of this undersea cityscape. We soon come to realise that all is not right with Rapture...

Rapture is decorated in the Art Deco style which gives the game a unique atmosphere as everything is in decay and chaos. Rapture's inhabitants still wear the masquerade outfits of the 1959 New year's party. It turns out that Plasmids and ADAM have destroyed the minds of the people and have turned them into savage crazy people.

Plasmids change your DNA which enable you to do many things such as shoot fire bolts, electrodes and even hornets from the palm of your hand!

All of this is pretty cool to gameplay. Makes it more exciting than just using standard weapons.
It's also fun to see how the inhabitants react to the plasmids.

You eventually discover the civil war that raged though rapture and also find out just what caused the inhabitants to turn crazy with the misuse of ADAM and the Plasmids.

The scariest part of the game has to be the encounters with the Big Daddy.

He is the protector of the little girls sent to harvest ADAM, and they are some tough machines! They take a hell of a lot to kill and they are very relentless, however they are good to get on your side with the right plasmid. Having them protect you by mercilessly killing the city's inhabitants to protect you is sickly satisfying.

Graphically the game is very good! The environments are superbly detailed and the lighting of them is eerily fantastic too! Sticking to the Art Deco style and 50's music gave the game a unique character too which made playing it all the more satisfying and also contributed to it winning Game of the Year!

Now on 9th February 2010, Bioshock 2 comes out, and I can't wait to play it!