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Bioshock
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User Score (364)9.3
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Expert Score (149)9.4
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Gameplay (81)8.0
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Graphics (90)8.2
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Sound (84)8.2
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Storyline (6)8.4
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Control (6)8.9
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Addiction (5)8.6
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Lifespan (35)8.0
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Pros & Cons
- interesting ways, superb production values, given our review team, gorgeous visuals, win this award
- a little formulaic, minor interface weirdness, disappointing finale, lack of personal shadow, no co op play
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BioShock is the Xbox 360 game that allows you to explore in a way that was, until now, impossible. What is even more exciting is the sheer range of options open to you that allow you to experience the game in a unique and customized way.
The game is set in underwater Rapture, a perfect city if not for the civil war that threatens to destroy it. You must navigate the computer systems governing their security and avoid being caught by the genetically enhanced splicers. With danger at every turn, you will …
See moreBioShock is the Xbox 360 game that allows you to explore in a way that was, until now, impossible. What is even more exciting is the sheer range of options open to you that allow you to experience the game in a unique and customized way.
The game is set in underwater Rapture, a perfect city if not for the civil war that threatens to destroy it. You must navigate the computer systems governing their security and avoid being caught by the genetically enhanced splicers. With danger at every turn, you will need to improvise to survive.
BioShock is full of the most versatile and adaptable weapons systems ever to be introduced. But even the best modified weapons and ammunition will not be enough. You must learn to employ creative battle strategies, and even use plasmids in order to transform your body into the ultimate fighting tool. With BioShock, each encounter is truly unique and each player will experience the game in a new and excitingly different way.
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Manufacturer's Specs
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Developer:Irrational Games
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Publisher:2K Games
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Genre:Shooter
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Release Date:8/21/2007
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Console:Xbox 360
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Game Rating:M (Mature) Blood and Gore Drug Reference Intense Violence Sexual Themes Strong Language
Review Summary
The concept of BioShock is unique and well conceived. It features a great number of unique RPG elements and powers. The situation is in 1959 and you play the role of Jack, on board a plane that goes down in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Your mission is to come out of the danger. The best part of the game is that when you are killed, you don’t have to start all over again, instead you are transferred into the last known regeneration chamber you passed, keeping all the items you have, and enemies also …
See moreThe concept of BioShock is unique and well conceived. It features a great number of unique RPG elements and powers. The situation is in 1959 and you play the role of Jack, on board a plane that goes down in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Your mission is to come out of the danger. The best part of the game is that when you are killed, you don’t have to start all over again, instead you are transferred into the last known regeneration chamber you passed, keeping all the items you have, and enemies also retain the same attributes they had when you were killed. Thus you can continue from where you left off, but you are just thrown in another location. You can lure enemies into traps that you either set yourself or manipulate. You can use plasmids to set foes on fire, causing them to run into a pool of water to extinguish the flames, and then electrify the pool. You can catch projectiles with telekinesis and throw them back, or you can hack turrets and lead enemy their way. You can even get a Big Daddy to protect you and obliterate any enemy that threatens you. As you progress you unlock a wide assortment of Plasmids. The music enhances the setting and period of the game, visuals are very detailed. Most reviewers find this game to be authentic and players will find themselves fully immersed in this experience and will want to play again and again.
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BioShock is the "genetically enhanced" first-person shooter that lets you do things never before possible in the genre. Turn everything into a weapon, biologically mod your body with plasmids, hack…
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Reviewer: Game Informer1 week ago
- Overall 10
It’s ingenious, enthralling, and a masterpiece of the most epic proportions. So without further delay, would you kindly enter Rapture so that you too can experience the best that video games have to offer? Read more
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BioShock EP
Reviewer: GamePro.com26 October 2008- Overall 10
Part of what made Rapture such a creepy place to romp around in was the eerie and unsettling music found throughout. Read more
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BioShock: Review
Reviewer: Spot Xbox23 October 2008- Overall 9
If you're the kind of player who just wants yet another action-packed shooter, BioShock probably isn't for you. Its weak link is its unsatisfying no-skill-required combat, which might aim this one just over the head of the average Halo fan. But if you want to get a little fancy, there's a lot of fun to be had with some of the game's more indirect fighting methods. It builds an amazing atmosphere by using terrific graphics and sound to set a creepy mood. But BioShock's... Read more
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Reviewer: Just press play27 May 2008
- Overall 9
- Gameplay 9
- Graphics 10
- Sound 9
Time to get into your bathysphere and take a journey down to the underwater dystopian nightmare known as Rapture in . Rapture was created by the megalomaniacal nut job named Andrew Ryan, who asks the question "Is a man entitled to the sweat off his brow?" Down in Rapture he is, but he/she is also entitled to mutilating their bodies to the point where they have hooks for hands. Read more
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Bioshock (Xbox360)
Reviewer: EL33TONLINE06 May 2008- Overall 10
Art Deco is something some of us who studied art at school might have learned about. For those that missed out on it, I present to you: Bioshock. Read more
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love this game
Reviewer: Vivalasanchez, 1UP1 week ago- Overall 10
I owned bioshock for 6 months before playing it but once I took the time to understand what I had just involved my self in doing I fell completely in love with bioshock great game from start to end I guess I had thought the AI was a little to goofy when I first started playing that was what had turned me off to it the first time I popped the disk in 6 months earlier but as of today I also am a firm supporter of bioshock play this game at least once D Read more
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Welcome to Rapture
Reviewer: Daywalker2K3, GamePro.com22 October 2008- Overall 10
This is a type of game that mesmerizes with it's visual surroundings and audio. It's the type of game you think a lot about. The entire premise of the game is about being in an underwater city(or whatever it is) and it's hard to dismiss this game as just a typical first person game. Is it a horror game? In a sense, yes, but then there are moments where you find yourself invincible with plasmids and then it doesn't feel like a horror game anymore. Every fight seems epic... Read more
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BioShock Reader Review - 8.9
Reviewer: thfcpaul, IGN Entertainment30 September 2008- Overall 9
- Gameplay 8
- Graphics 9
- Sound 8
- Lifespan 8
I think its wrong to call BioShock a FPS, i know it is in gaming terms, but i think there needs to be another term thought up for a game like this, i love FPS halo, GOW, Splinter Cell etc, but i have never played a game that comes close to Bio, i wouldnt say its the best game iv ever played but its joint top game on the 360 along with GOW (halo 3 was crap). When i first started playing this game i found it very hard to really get used to it, it was far to fast and random... Read more
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Bioshock
Reviewer: Shin Gatsu, swapgame07 June 2008- Overall 10
This right here is an excellent game, one of the better single player games' on the 360. Graphics are good, sound is awesome, the atmosphere is fantastic. There is no online play but it wouldn't be suited for this kind of game, a rental but a good rental. Read more
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My favourite game.
Reviewer: SteffandOz from Cardiff, LOVEFiLM28 October 2007- Overall 10
I'm going to keep this simple... when I completed this game I immediately started again, taking a different tack at it. In total I have completed this game five times and I still have it. (I normally sell my games after I complete them.) Read more
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