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Bioshock (Xbox 360 Review)
Navneet Prakash, Sep 15, 2007 1653 hrs ISTNow, this is a game worth indulging in with utter abandon
Pro: Amazing visuals and Sound, Great plot, intense gameplay, beautiful level design, variety in gameplay keeps you busy for the 15 odd hours of gameplay, Challenging.
More hacking mini-games would have been great.
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Bioshock is one of the best games you'll ever play in your life; it is by far the most innovative and skilled shooter game in recent history. You must have read the reviews, you must have read the world rave about it, but this is one thing you have to experience. Words can't even begin to describe the journey that is Bioshock. This game - apart from being just a game - also tells us a very compelling story, one that will mesmerize you. Read on.
The Shocking Plot
Bioshock starts off with a bang, and unfortunately, the player is a part of it: you're in a major plane crash, which you miraculously survive. After you revive from the effects of the crash you see a lighthouse and you swim toward it. There you see a bathysphere terminus. Your character - Jack - intrigued, uses it and discovers "Rapture". The game is based in the year 1960 and is a twisted tale of a man named Andrew Ryan, who, abandoning the world above, creates a city called Rapture under the sea. He wants to create a new world, void of the ills that men on the surface possess. You're introduced to Rapture in the bathysphere by an audio log that's recorded by Andrew. While you're transported, you see this magnificent city underwater, this world under the sea.
As soon as your transport docks, you see a dark room and a man walking backwards in your direction. Moments later an oddly shaped figure rips the man apart using strange contraptions that appear to be his hand. This creature then eyes you and jumps toward the bathysphere. You hear a man asking you to pick up the radio set that is inside the bathysphere. The man introduces himself as Atlas and asks you to remain clam. After a few futile attempts to dent the sphere, the creature leaves you. The man introduces you to Rapture and tell you that he'll help you survive in that underwater city - a once glorious city, now turned into a battlefield. The plot is very complex ... but I don't want to give away too much - apart from a few things that you must know.
A major aspect of the story is Adam - not another character but a substance. Adam was discovered by the scientists of Rapture - scientists who had the freedom to experiment beyond boundaries. Adam was discovered in a particular species of sea slugs. And with Adam one could genetically enhance any human ability. But with such an awesome power, things are bound to go out of hand - and they do. The city turns into a bloody mess of disfigured humans, who kill each other and act like mindless zombies.
The most unique characters in the game are the Little Sisters and their Big Daddies. Now, this isn't some rock band or a group, or drag queens, neither are they names that couples give each other during intimacy in Rapture. The Little Sisters are little girls that are armed with a big device that they use to suck Adam out of the dead citizens of Rapture. And Big Daddies are the sisters' bodyguards. Let me elaborate a little: after the discovery of Adam, almost every citizen had their bodies enhanced. Not the Pamela Anderson of Bay Watch type enhancements: there are more like Jean Claude Van Damme in Universal Solider type enhancements. These enhancements - called Plasimds - give you abilities like telekinesis, and the power to instantly freeze or ignite anyone. So these Little Sisters go around the city colleting Adam out of dead citizens. The big daddies look like huge guys in diving suits.
The plot is really twisted and creepy, but it's well executed.
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