[Multiplatform] Bioshock. Available on Wii 12/5/2010

Watched the trailer for BioShock. Sod me, how good is that little video. Love it. Can't wait for this game, it's going to be good.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Had a play on the demo last night. Hot damn this game looks good. I'm definitely glad I've got it on pre-order, can't wait to start playing it and getting my hands on the different powers and weapons.

One little thing I rather liked was the little mini-game required to 'hack' the security bots when they turned up. That was cool. Oh, and of course, eletrifying three splicers as they stood in a pool of water. How much fun.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I thought I'd seen somewhere that 2K Games have said the release date hasn't been brought forward. Still have to wait for the 24th then. Damn it.

I've noticed a few reviews have gone up online which just make me want this even more.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

This game fucking rocks. I'm with Tails, it's so fun, just sucks you in. I ended up playing until just gone 5am yesterday (er, today) completing the game. Loved it to pieces and will definitely play through again at some point.

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Originally Posted by Lukage

Although, the last comment regarding the splicers bothers me as it adds to the easymode status of the game. :\

There's still the natural delay from switching weapons, so as Tails said, if you're in a group situation you're still going to end up getting beat up side the head a few times. I really like the way the weapon and plasmid switching works, in fact the whole control scheme on the 360 feels natural once you get going. I found it led to being able to be quite slick with your moves.

Where does the issue with the difficulty come from? I only played it on medium, and admittedly I wasn't overly challenged, but I certainly died a number of times (getting into a mass brawl with a number of splicers near a Big Daddy is not a good idea). Plus it felt like it was more about telling the story, so I was glad I didn't have moments of getting frustrated at overly difficult sections.

Like I said, loved the game, a brilliant experience from start to finish.

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Originally Posted by Iwata

I think i'm one of the select few who have managed to acquire all 122 Audio Diarys and goddamn did it help make Bioshock's story so much more fleshed out. The story was just made of pure mindbending awesomeness.

I found 120 of the 122 in the complete play through (went and found the last two this morning). But yeah, loved how they fleshed out the story and provided an explanation to things, especially some of the earlier tapes regarding the doctor.

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Originally Posted by Jinn

Just beat it and got this ending!

That's the same ending I got and I reacted exactly the same way. XD

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The only real problem I could ever say this game has is that it's too short! Then again, I probably wouldn't have been happy if the game was 40 hours long.

Yeah, I think in order for the game to have been much longer they would have had to strung things out to the point that it would have started getting a bit silly. But like a really good movie this is one I feel I can come back to and experience multiple times and still enjoy. For one I think I'd approach my next play through in a different way entirely.

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I'll definitely be playing this one through until I get all the endings. Two more to go!

There's two more endings? One is obvious and I can guess how to get the other. Hmm. Cool.

Originally Posted by Plarom

Bioshock definitely deserves it. I don't consider any game to be perfect, but this game provided one of the best experiences I've ever had on my 360.

I consider BioShock to be one of the best experiences I've had on any gaming platform, not just the 360.

On thing I really loved aside from the audio diaries was the world and how joyous it was to explore. I wanted to find the audio diaries because of the story they developed, but also because it meant exploring the whole of this world that at no time felt like they'd cookie-cuttered bits or been lazy.

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Originally Posted by Tagonist

JYes, Bioshock has a nice, deep story, which is pretty unique in video games.
Yes, it also has incredible art direction and very good audio.
But that's about all good things I've got to say about it.

Because those things, and being like System Shock 2, are indeed terrible. How could anyone not agree that despite looking and sounding great, having a brilliant and involving story, and somewhat being based on the game mechanics of a well revered game, despite those minor things, it really isn't great at all. Seems so obvious now. Clearly all that enjoyment I thought I was having was a lie. Touché 2K Games, touché.

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Originally Posted by Mo0

Dammit, stop using your British sarcasm. I was about to punch you in the face for a minute.

Sorry Mo0, I'll try to remember my British sarcasm tags next time. I think I left them in my other trousers (or pants if you must).

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Hey guys, BioShock is way too similar in gameplay to Wolfenstein 3D, I mean shit, it's in 3D and you shoot things and you can even use a melee attack! And the story is about the downfall of a society led by a warped guy who has mutants serving him in a huge self-contained dungeon! They totally ripped off the story from Wolfenstein.

Ha ha, awesome. And so true. iD should sue.

But seriously, this whole point about a game being derivative can't be any fun is complete bullshit. If that were the case there'd be no sequels, ever, and 99.9% of EA's catalogue wouldn't exist. Hell, 99% of games wouldn't exist. Most things are derivative on some level these days, music, films, TV, games... the whole lot of 'em. Look hard enough and you'll find a wealth of things that something could be based on, or is similar too. The whole point is people take bits of ideas and inspiration and combine it into something new, something a bit different. Certainly not too different, then we wouldn't know what to make of it and would most likely ignore it. We like things that are familiar, we can understand them, make sense of them and place them in the world. So things being somewhat derivative is always going to be the case, and that's not a bad thing.

Equally, the crap about a game mechanic being 8 years old equating to being bad, also bullshit. Most games today are still based on game mechanics of 10, 20 years ago. One only need to look at retro games appearing on stuff like XBLA and getting good reviews, or indeed, games like New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, which is very much based on an old game mechanic.

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Originally Posted by Tails

Seeing as how I played it through on Medium the first time and the only achievement I'm missing is the one for beating it on Hard, waiting worked in my favor.

Same. Doubt I'll go through it again quite so soon, but I was always planning to go through on hard, so bonus.

There's nowhere I can't reach.