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quikthnkr was kind enough to send me to try out. Bioshock is a shooter and a lovely one. The weapons assortment and environment really set it off from even the better high-end shooters these days, like Resistance: Fall of Man or the Call of Duty type games.I'll talk environment first. After a plane crash you're brought to an undersea world. It's like Ayn Rand and H.G. Wells got drunk and came up with an underwater art-deco utopia. Except by the time you arrive, utopia's fallen apart courtesy of Stephen King and James Cameron.
It's not quite steampunk -- more like radio-tubepunk. The red-carpeted environs look like they came from Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow. Really gorgeous, except everything's broken up by revolutionary chaos. I kept looking around with my eyeballs instead of paying attention to gameplay, which is some zombie fighting, some Poseidon Adventure/Titanic-type escapes from rising water, and some puzzle solving.
It's rated M. You even get to smoke cigarettes! Edgy, edgy, edgy!
Your weapons are a blend of genetic enhancements (you're always injecting yourself with stuff in the game to give you fun new lethal powers) and plain old guns and clubs. There's a strong survival horror element. I think the main character has a lot more backstory than I've uncovered so far. You don't have tattoos of chain links on your wrists for no reason in a game...
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be buying this and passing
quikthnkr's copy on to someone else. Sadly, it won't be Howard. bg_editor is getting his wife and kids a Wii, the pussy.
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*pulls the cord between her Wiimote and Nunchuck taught*
Edited at 2007-12-11 10:54 pm (UTC)
That would be cool.
I played the demo for Bioshock for the PC. I loved it, wish I could afford the real thing but everyone I know has the 360 and I can't beg/borrow/steal a copy. Damn.
I loved the whole mood to the game. It sort of reminded me of "Clive Barker's Undying." I can't wait to get it and play it in the dark with the surround sound turned up. Creepy.
Edited at 2007-12-11 11:40 pm (UTC)
*sigh*...I'm so behind the times technology wise.
I think it would be good to play games where you actually have to move your body to play, rather than play games where you move thinking it will help you play better... ;-)
(Maybe that's just me... )
You know there is actually a plasmid called "Boozehound" that gives you an extra shot of Eve when you drink the massive amount of liquer that is all over the game. I liked drinking 3-4 bottles at a time and watching the screen go wavy.
Bioshock is tons of fun and so complex. Unravelling the story is one of the biggest thrills I've had in gaming in a long time.
And personally I think the Wii is a great system for people who don't really want to play video games (like picking up an Atari 2600). If you like getting hopped up on Schnapps and giggling while your friends flail about trying to play Wii Tennis (the Mii's in my opinion are creepy as hell) then this is the system for you.
Seriously though, if you have little kids or you are nostalgic for Super Mario 3 then a Wii is probably the way to go. But the simple truth is that no adult who enjoys complex narrative or challenging games with beautiful graphics will be satisfied with a Wii. The Nintendo Wii is something you get for parties and for your kids to use while you are in the other room fragging people in Halo on line.
The price is right. A lot of the Gunslingers own Wii's in addition to the 360. Someone even brought one to our last LAN party (although almost no one played with it except the wives/girlfriends that attende the LAN and occasionally their significant others). It just wouldn't be my first choice for gaming.
And your right. Wii'ers are pansies.