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Bioshock - 20/8/2007 3:26:50 PM

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Just played the demo.... - 21/8/2007 12:19:06 PM

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DEAR SWEET JESUS! What an amazing game. Words and pictures really cannot do this game justice, it needs to be seen in motion to appreciate it's exquisite beauty and immersive gameplay. It even has the song that plays on Andy's radio at the start of 'The Shawshank Redemption'! Just an amazing game!

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Just played the demo.... - 21/8/2007 12:19:19 PM

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- 30/8/2007 12:22:32 PM

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got this on wednesday, and OH MY GOD!! this is the greatest available game for the 360. you will not have seen a game with graphics like this, the story is amazing and the fact that you can fire ic from your hands is just amazing. go buy this it will change your life!

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Never underestimate the power of the mind. - 20/9/2007 2:03:55 PM

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Bioshock Review.

Never underestimate the power of the mind.

Welcome to a game that I never thought I would ever play, welcome to a world so believable, so enthralling and so challenging. Welcome to Bioshock.

To define Bioshock as a First Person Shooter is a bit like describing a vintage Dom Pérignon champagne as a bottle of plonk, everything you will experience in Bioshock will shake your expectations about what should constitute a great game. The plot will confound you, the dialogue will move you and the combat will astound you.

The game opens with your character’s plane crashing into the Atlantic, leaving you thrashing about in water surrounded by burning fuel, the only chance of salvation is a nearby lighthouse, not something you would expect in the middle of the ocean. Making your way inside you find yourself transported by Bathysphere to the suboceanic city of Rapture. This opening is a stunning example of how games in the 21st century should really be presented, to go into more detail would be beyond rude as it is something that people have to experience for themselves.

Your arrival in Rapture has not come at a good time, the city has clearly suffered an awful level of violence with water leaking inside, bodies all over the place and damage to the architecture evident in most areas. It isn’t long before the game begins to unravel it’s secrets, the main source of the upheavel is the discovery of a gene altering substance called ADAM which has been employed by the brilliant minds of Rapture to modify the inhabitants and grant them superhuman abilities. The arhcitect behind Rapture, Andrew Ryan intended the city to be the perfect society where everyone is entitled to the results of their work rather than it being taken by the state or the church. Everyone in RYAN’s vision should be free to work without the shackles of morals or restraints in order to maximise the progression of the human race. It is this deliber

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at first i thought great but near the end it got boring... - 10/10/2007 1:41:53 AM

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not 5 star material good but get's boring very overhyped this game and the Big Daddys are easy

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- 16/10/2007 7:36:52 PM

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I agree it was good for a couple of days but then it got boring

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Boring and overhyped - 17/10/2007 10:46:56 AM

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I absolutely wanted this game when it came out and sure the first three days were fine but it gets extemely repetetive. VERY OVERHYPED.

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The greatest game since HALF LIFE 2 - 16/1/2008 3:48:03 PM

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im a old school gamer. i started in my jurrasic period with a atari. from that to a sinclair spectrum 48k, commodore 64 nitendo, megadrive, playstation, xbox, playstation 2, xbox 360, psp.
so i know my shit when it comes to gaming. anyway BIOSHOCK is the game equivalent to finding a 18 year old cheerleader lying in your bed after a hard day at work. its sex its gorgeous its brilliant.
This game is the missing link between george orwells 1984 and aldous huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD with a horror movie plot.
miles better than HALO (overated cack) 3. brilliant.

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RE: Bioshock - 19/1/2008 12:40:58 AM

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Wow thats what bioshoack say to me as soon as i pick up the controller if you like fear half life or any other scary shoot em up this is for you.

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RE: Bioshock - 28/1/2008 8:19:12 PM

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Out of all the first person shoot'em ups on 360 Bioshock has the best single player.

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wowee! - 16/4/2008 1:39:14 PM

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i am a huge fan of FPS and when i played on the demo for this game i got well in to it and admired the graphics that were there. they are sick. very happy this won the bafta game award for best game because it is very deserving

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RE: wowee! - 30/8/2008 11:04:13 PM

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Possible one of the best games ever created. 10/10

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RE: wowee! - 30/9/2008 6:48:56 AM

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It's the best game I've played so far on the 360 with Call of Duty 4 and GTA not far behind.

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Bioshock fanboy - 14/11/2010 9:00:42 AM

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I absolutely adore this game. It has everything, a great story (suspend that disbelief nay sayers), great characters (Yey Big Daddy) and beautiful, if unsettling (brown trousers time) environments and music. The 1920s setting works really well and gives that haunting feeling I can still feel from The Shining (remember the music playing at the end as the camera draws closer the ball room photo with our Mad Jack now in it? Think of that atmosphere fro the whole game - sweet!
It's original, entertaining, challenging and scares the be-jesus out of you, buzz-buzz!

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Disturbingly Whimsical - 16/11/2011 4:32:54 PM

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One of the most bizarre, and yet addictive games I have played for years, Bioshock is a superbly immersive and elegantly original FPS experience that is completely unique and offers something no other games of the same genre can. The underwater city of Rapture is a captivating place, and the scenarios are always varied and grotesquely rendered, but in a good way. One of the things Bioshock does really well is the start contrast of it's themes; characters are rendered in a bizarre style of animation that makes them seem rather cartoon-y. This contrasts beautifully with the fairy-tale-like images of beauty that envelope you in this game. The blood-on-roses aesthetic works so well that it makes up about half of the experience. Gameplay becomes a little tedious in the latter stages of the game, but the story is to die for, and the 'characters' are a crazy mix of psychos, anti-heroes, and Andrew Ryan. Hideous, disturbing, and beautiful, Bioshock is an experience all of its' own.

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