Bioshock on Xbox 360

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:44 pm 0

Yep, my copy has turned up too - just been out buying stuff to decorate so not sure how much time i'll get to play it today.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:53 pm 0

I've got half hour gaming at lunchtime coming up. Giraffe or Bioshock? Arrrrrgggghhh!!!!

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:07 pm 0

Just had a lunchbreak full, and it certainly doesn't disappoint.

Ace fun, and tremendously atmospheric.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:02 pm 0

Mine's in transit, so will probably arrive tomorrow when I'm on my way to Glasgow.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:31 pm 0

My PC version dropped onto the mat this morning. I'm jut about to install it.

I narrowly resisted the urge to get a new gfx board at lunchtime. I keep telling myself I don't need one.. but King Lear's rantings echo in my head "Oh reason not the need!"

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:59 pm 0

Woo hoo Bioshock!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:49 pm 0

Oh yes. This is a very nice game indeed.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:28 pm 0

I've just played the first few sections through. I'm grinning and laughing like a twat. It's been a long long time since a game has out and out pleased me like this one is doing. I may very well just spoo.

The urge to share my experiences with you good fellow gamers is incredibly strong, but I'd consider it a fucking abominable crime to spoil even one discovery, one second of slack-jawed wonder or evil cackling and rubbing of the hands.

All I will say is, when the first few enemies show up tuck yourself away and just listen to their chatter for a while. Icy fingers in my brain. This is a true successor to System Shock 2, even if its not intended as a sequel

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:25 am 0

Blimey!! The review of this game weren't wrong......

I've jumped out of my skin at least a dozen times during my first few hours of playing this game - and i'm finding there is plenty to keep me busy. Just took down the first Big Daddy - pretty much felt I had to as I only had 2 plasmid slots and it felt like that was restricting me.

Great fun - graphics, the design, the atmosphere, the sound effects and music - finding it hard to fault this game. The enemies are much more resilient than in the demo which is making it quite a challenge.

Good stuff!!

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:07 am 0

It scores 8 in Edge, according to a post on rllmuk (same as SG and Warhawk).

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:24 am 0

It's good. I felt a bit queasy after 2 hours play last night and had to stop.

Also the game seems very dark in parts. Up the brightness for tonight's session methinks.

It's also very easy to die (I'm on medium) which results in an immediate respawn. Problem is when trying to take down big daddies Im finding myself lazily relying on respawns rather than healing which seems to be having the effect of fucking up the atmosphere for me.

Mat · Post by **Mat** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:37 am 0

Yup, me too, although I'm playing on Hard, so I just die a lot more

I think it's a legitimate complaint and that they should have implemented some sort of penalty for respawning, such as charging you cash for respawns; no cash, no respawn.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:01 pm 0

disciple wrote:It's good. I felt a bit queasy after 2 hours play last night and had to stop.

Also the game seems very dark in parts. Up the brightness for tonight's session methinks.

It's also very easy to die (I'm on medium) which results in an immediate respawn. Problem is when trying to take down big daddies Im finding myself lazily relying on respawns rather than healing which seems to be having the effect of fucking up the atmosphere for me.

Hm, I know what you mean, but I managed to kill 2 Big Daddies so far and have only been killed once myself (on medium).

Not sure how else they could have done that. If the daddies health respawned when yours did, then that could lead to impassable sections of the game.

The Captain · Post by **The Captain** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:46 pm 0

This game is absolutely astonishing. There's nothing like the atmosphere of Rapture. Having a hacked security bot puttering round you as you listen to a crackly recording of a long-dead citizen, with the whole city ready to succumb to the ocean. . . . The stuff of legend.

When we picked up the special edition from GAYME this morning, their entire shipment had broken Big Daddy figurines and knackered boxes. But they are sending out replacements and we get to keep the ones we've got already. Bit of superglue and we've got Big Daddy bookends!

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:01 pm 0

The little sisters remind me of the Empty Child episode of Dr Who. A bit.

Oh and watch out for:

Ghosts! Some of the ghost sequences are quite harrowing, nothing like the cyber nanny transformation one from SS2 yet though- thank god.