Bioshock Review

Bioshock

Platform - Xbox 360

Developer – 2K Boston

Publisher – 2K Games

Released – August 21^st 2007

Written by Brian

Bioshock is a first person survival role playing game that puts you into the eyes of an unfortunate man named Jack. It’s based on a fictional underwater city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean called Rapture during 1960. When you arrive at Rapture you find out it had once been a marvelous city, but had recently turned into a nightmare.

You start off with your plane slamming down into the mid-Atlantic, and you go to take shelter at Rapture. As you journey further and further throughout Rapture, trying to survive, you unravel the mystery about how this city had turned to to hell. Your target throughout most of the game is a man named Andrew Ryan, the founder and the overseer of Rapture.

It’s a hard world to survive in the world of Bioshock, but you have many things to help you endure Rapture. You can hack security cameras, turrets, and bots to help defend and fight with you, or you can hack vending machines which will unlock items for you to buy, and more. You’re given a total of 70 plasmids which include incinerating, freezing, controlling, and enraging your enemies, there are also many more plasmids which help you hack, fight, and survive. You can set up traps and mines, and then lure your enemies into a deadly surprise that will leave them into shock, literally.

The graphics are beautiful, scary, unique, and amazing. When you first take your trip down to Rapture in a small sub, the city looks enchanting and stunning. But when you enter the city, it’s very dark, and creepy, and the graphics play a huge role in presenting that experience to you.

The sound is so perfect, it plays the biggest role in taking you away into the world of Bioshock. The way your enemies dragged their hooks along the ground and the very silent scenes with just enough sounds to creep you out when you were just waiting for something to leap out of the shadows and attack you just send chills down your spine. Without such a great deliverance of sound, this game wouldn’t be anything similar to the Bioshock everyone knows and loves.

The game is roughly 20 hours long if you take your time, with an alternate ending depending what decisions you make. Besides from that though, there are no unlockables for beating the game, and most would only play this one time through.

Graphics – 10/10

Sound – 10/10

Gameplay – 10/10

Lasting Appeal – 8/10

Story – 10/10

Overall Score – 9.6/10