Bioshock (PC DVD) |
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Take 2 Interactive
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £6.99
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Take 2
EAN: 5026555053044
Label: Take 2 Interactive
Manufacturer: Take 2 Interactive
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Take 2 Interactive
Release Date: 2007-08-24
Studio: Take 2 Interactive |
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Product Description
One of the most downright scary games ever created, Bioshock leads you to the depths of the ocean and a hidden city - once a utopia, now a high definition gaming nightmare. - 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.
- 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?
- Internet Connection Required For Activation
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What an amazing world they created., 2010-02-11
I do have a bit of a love hate with this game.
The style of the game is absolutely fantastic. The world design and feel is complete and distinct. By that I mean the plot, characters, graphics and audio are all perfectly designed. You have a semi derelict underwater world from an alternate 50s, whose inhabitants have experienced gene experiments to improve human life without truly being aware of the consequences. What an excellent premise for a game.
You play a 3D shooter with guns in one hand and spell like gene alterations in the other. You follow a well thought out rescue story and on the way hack into the worlds own defences to help you out.
My problem with the game is that in ways it reminded me of a poor Deus Ex. Although I thought there were different paths it was an illusion. I hacked everything I came across and if I saw something I could electrocute or set on fire of use my telekinetic powers on I did. Once I finished I realised there was no reason to come back. There are no real stats as such to become a master hacker or elementalist. You are always the rather more basic jack of all trades. Certain enemies re spawn which is something I really hate in games. I little more roleplayish where you could develop your own unique (to an extent) character and this game would have been an all time classic.
Still head and shoulders above most other games in the creation of their own world and well worth experiencing.
Although apart from having to activate my game each time I installed it I have not witnessed any issues from the way the game is controlled by its protection. I have had this game for years now and have played it on around 4 systems. Be aware though that it has more severe protection than most people find acceptable.
great game, 2010-02-25
was really good fun playing the game really addictive story line great weapons and plasmids very tough though and can be hard to find ammo and health some times but thats part of the fun for me lol:) over all a really great game :)
BSOD, but otherwise..., 2010-03-14
I've had Blue Screen of Death crashes with both Bioshock titles, and for the moment I've uninstalled them before deciding/discovering whether patching will help. But what I HAVE played of the game demonstrates just how in advance most PC versions of games are to their console cousins. Really, on mid-to-high settings, Bioshock is a wonder to behold. Astonishingly good looking and great to play with precise keyboard and mouse controls.
After uninstalling, I went back to my Xbox 360 copy, which I've had for years. Free from crahes, but once you've seen and played Bioshock on PC, the console versions are just so much "Meh". It really does look and play pretty bland without access to higher resolutions PCs and keyboard and mouse support.
Fantastic Fun, Provided You Can Overcome Minor Problems, 2010-01-13
A word of warning for those who use a Radeon 2600 graphics card - mine and other computers have had issues running DX10 graphics and crash shortly upon the introduction. The solution to this is to create a new shortcut to the game on your desktop and write the target (under properties) as "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\2K Games\BioShock\Builds\Release\Bioshock.exe" -dx9 including quotation marks and a space before -dx9. This forces the program to run fine in dx9 graphics and no more problems should occur.
As for the game itself it's great fun - you're placed right into the action of a fight for survival with many methods made available to you on how to take out enemies, especially as enemies get more diverse and problematic as the game progresses. One example of taking out an enemy is igniting a teddy bear and using telekinesis to throw and thus ignite a foe. Obstacles also have various ways around them where you can use your "plasmid" powers for melting ice or making hacking a machine easier. As for the storyline that too is also well fitted into the gameplay - characters speak to you through the radio about various tasks and you can pick up cassette tapes from varying character's around the city "Rapture" which add depth to the story. You also have the choice to be the good guy, bad guy, or both ... all which have benefits and negatives, but I won't explain them out to you, but leave you to find them out by yourself!
Of course this is the tip of the iceberg compared to actually playing the game. All I can say is, when you have a computer fit to run the game and run it well, this is a game well worth entertainment value and your money.
Brilliant Game, 2010-01-16
Wow, what can I say?
It's beautiful graphics, great story line, brilliant concept and fantastic setting all contribute to my amazement over this game. I am not generally shoot-em-up gamer (or an RPG gamer). Building and simulation games are more my thing. But with Bioshock I was blown away. The series of characters you meet, plus the general killable characters (the Splicers, as they are known), are great and I loved being a part of the game.
The story line starts off mysteriously, yet intriguingly, and the development of it only made me want to play it more to see what happened next. The whole thing leads to a huge twist towards the end of the game. I may have seen it coming for a short time before, but I know many who didn't and were shocked by it. Although not the strongest storyline of many games I have seen/played, the ending is worth working towards.
All-in-all it is a fantastic game, and I would reccommend it to anyone looking for a good shoot-em-up with a decent story line and in need of a little fun.
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