Xbox 360 Review - Bioshock
Bioshock appears to be your run-of-the-mill first person shooter, but it's got some extra kick to it. Notably are the rich environments and the interesting storyline. Now if you'd like to experience this game in all its glory, I'd say turn off the lights, put on the surround sound, and get high as a kite.The game does a great job of immersing you in a strange world right away. In the very first minute, you are underwater, and you see purses and suitcases drift by you as you swim towards an eerie glow on the surface. You come to the surface to find yourself surrounded by the flaming wreckage of a plane crash, which is extremely impressively rendered. As you swim past it, the plane becomes more and more submerged and you swim towards a lighthouse.

Inside the lighthouse, you hear Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" playing (the game got a lot of credit for that on there...) and take and elevator down...way down. You find yourself in the underwater city of Rapture, which acheives a cool feeling of both futuristic and retro 50's, combined with being an underwater city, this is one of the coolest and most original environments seen in recent games. Of course, Rapture was once a happy place for science, but things went bad and now there's mutants and giant drill robots and a host of other cool shit.
"So in what cool ways do I kill people?", I bet you're saying. Well, we're glad you asked. You inject yourself with stuff called ADAM, which can be aquired by killing mutants, and then with a wave of your hand, you can unleash lightning, fire, freezing cold...whatever...good times. You also have guns at your disposal like a good ol' shotgun and a fun-ass Tommy Gun. You have to combine the right abilities you unlock with the right guns and ...hell it gets a little confusing after a while but I guess I was GUI.So let me round out this lazy little review here by saying this game is definitely cool...just trust us on this one, but if you're just looking to pick up a shooter and start blasting, this isn't the game for you.



























