Comments on: Bioshock Review http://www.forevergeek.com/2008/04/bioshock_review/ Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:28:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mr Butterscotch http://www.forevergeek.com/2008/04/bioshock_review/comment-page-1/#comment-39397 Mr Butterscotch Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:22:55 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/games/bioshock_review.php#comment-39397 I think I'm in the minority here - but I genuinely found that I was bored with Bioshock after a while. I just found it uninspiring, though the setting was interesting and I liked the overall look and feel. I think I’m in the minority here – but I genuinely found that I was bored with Bioshock after a while. I just found it uninspiring, though the setting was interesting and I liked the overall look and feel.

]]> By: JC http://www.forevergeek.com/2008/04/bioshock_review/comment-page-1/#comment-39393 JC Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:35:56 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/games/bioshock_review.php#comment-39393 you can use telekinesis to pull a teddy bear from a shelf across the room, then light it on fire and throw it at an enemy walking through a deep puddle of spilled fuel oil. And then just for kicks, you can release a swarm of genetically enhanced killer bees onto him and his closest friends and watch them scream the same clever things you might do in a similar situation, as their health slowly ticks down, or better yet, in the ones which are allergic to bees, they die almost instantly. Do that in another game. Did you play it on the easiest setting? If you're going to complain about the game not being hard enough and not having replay value, crank it up a notch or two and play 'good' so your upgrade options *are* more limited. In easy, you can pretty much do the whole game with a wrench + wrench upgrades + the few plasmids that are required to advance (electroshock, fire, telekinesis). I think by about the fourth stage on easy, I'd given up on other weapons, only using the camera on anything I hadn't finished researching yet, and the pistol or later, the crossbow for things like snipering down cameras before that irritating alarm started blaring out of my speakers. I haven't done it on 'evil' yet. There are actually 3 endings, not two. If you perform no 'evil' acts, you get the 'good' ending. If you stray more than once, you get the 'bad' ending. If you only stray once, you get the 'remorse' ending, which is almost identical to the 'bad' ending, I think there's just a different audio track, with the speaker being remorseful rather than condemning. Regarding the storyline, you may have missed that it's an homage to a classic work of fiction. I'm not mentioning it because you may have left it out intentionally, as I assume you did with many of the other specifics of the game. Given that your review is many months after the release of the game and all the hype which surrounded it at release, including extensive and in-depth reviews, people probably know most of what's being left out, though. If you were unaware, and want the name of the book... *shrug*... just search for other reviews. :) Great game. you can use telekinesis to pull a teddy bear from a shelf across the room, then light it on fire and throw it at an enemy walking through a deep puddle of spilled fuel oil. And then just for kicks, you can release a swarm of genetically enhanced killer bees onto him and his closest friends and watch them scream the same clever things you might do in a similar situation, as their health slowly ticks down, or better yet, in the ones which are allergic to bees, they die almost instantly. Do that in another game.

Did you play it on the easiest setting? If you’re going to complain about the game not being hard enough and not having replay value, crank it up a notch or two and play ‘good’ so your upgrade options *are* more limited.

In easy, you can pretty much do the whole game with a wrench + wrench upgrades + the few plasmids that are required to advance (electroshock, fire, telekinesis). I think by about the fourth stage on easy, I’d given up on other weapons, only using the camera on anything I hadn’t finished researching yet, and the pistol or later, the crossbow for things like snipering down cameras before that irritating alarm started blaring out of my speakers.

I haven’t done it on ‘evil’ yet. There are actually 3 endings, not two. If you perform no ‘evil’ acts, you get the ‘good’ ending. If you stray more than once, you get the ‘bad’ ending. If you only stray once, you get the ‘remorse’ ending, which is almost identical to the ‘bad’ ending, I think there’s just a different audio track, with the speaker being remorseful rather than condemning.

Regarding the storyline, you may have missed that it’s an homage to a classic work of fiction. I’m not mentioning it because you may have left it out intentionally, as I assume you did with many of the other specifics of the game. Given that your review is many months after the release of the game and all the hype which surrounded it at release, including extensive and in-depth reviews, people probably know most of what’s being left out, though. If you were unaware, and want the name of the book… *shrug*… just search for other reviews. :)

Great game.

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