Tangent : Bioshock is cool
Anyone played Bioshock yet?
I picked up a copy for my Xbox360 last night and MAN is that game cool. Gorgeous, cool, and creepy…those are the words I would use to describe it.
Seeing a Big Daddy walking around for the first time is really intense. Screenshots just don’t do it justice.
One of the cool things is that it isn’t scary in the traditional since (i.e. things jumping at you…even though things do jump at you), but rather the game elicits an emotional response. For instance there is a scene where one of the “splicers” is crying over the baby she will no longer be able to hold. It doesn’t have to do with anything, but I just sat there and got a bit choked up (yes, I know…I am a wuss). Can’t say that many games have been able to do that…
I was talking to a couple of friends today and we decided that the one thing that this game will be remembered for in the long run will have to be its art style. The buildings and interiors use an “art deco” look that is from the 40s and such. The Empire State Building is probably the best example. It is just a look that has never been used before (at least to this scale) and it really adds to the atmosphere.
My only gripe is the very beginning. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil anything (this part is actually in the demo). You start out as a dude whose plane has crashed. Instead of drowning you decide to go into this big elevator thingie and end up in the city of Rapture. About 2 minutes later you run into this HUGE syringe, and without asking questions like “what is this?” or “where do you stick THAT?” you grab it and plunge it into your arm. No explanations about the syringe are given till AFTER you stab yourself. I don’t know about you, but I don’t go around and grab pointy objects and stick myself just to see what happens. Seems a bit silly. Course, 10 seconds later you forget about the whole thing because you can now shoot lightning!
Finally, if you are holding off buying the game because of the “widescreen controversy”…don’t. If you played the game before you heard about the “issue” then it would have never crossed your mind that you were missing something. It really is a non-issue, because you don’t miss anything. Just feel sorry for the people with a regular tv who can’t see this amazing game in glorious HD. If you haven’t heard of this controversy and are going to buy the game, then I suggest you don’t even bother learning about it. Just get the game and enjoy it. Its truly a one of a kind experience.
Keith Richards said,
Wrote on August 22, 2007 @ 4:39 pm
Yeah it is a great game. The whole wide screen thing is messed up. Even though they designed it for wide screen they should have put the extra play space on the widescreen version rather than the standard def version. Kinda backwards but they are working on fixing that so no worries.
Jonathan Crisostomo said,
Wrote on June 8, 2008 @ 11:11 pm
It has been my plesure to play a game of such great quality. The buildings and levels are disigned in a sense that you can see the madness as if it were seeping out of the walls. The AI is great as well. One time a “splicer” just stood there behind me, doing nothing, follwing me around. Then out of nowhere just started screaming and attacking me. It could have been a glich, but it was a very scary, very interesting glich. It gave me a very RPG like experience in the fact that you upgrade your character (which you never see, only his arms) and weapons. Overall I liked the game alot and feel like it deserves a place among the vault of incredible games. Physics and all, I am very looking foward to Bioshock 2. Hopefully it will have a more open ended gameplay aside from the story line. I think this game offers many opportunities for mutliplayer or at least a world (or underwater world) to explore and crush enemies. Maybe some time my character could become a juggernaut like a certain character in the game is!