Shock around the clock
I've just spent 4 hours Bioshocking. It's been a while since I've gamed until my neck hurt, but I did it this afternoon. There aren't that many save points in the game compared to stuff like Assassin's Creed, so I ended up playing for longer than I had planned (yes, that's the reason)
The game was an asked-for Christmas present and it's pretty different to everything else that I've played. For one, it's a first person shooter game and I've only ever played sort of one, Jedi Academy, and I put it to 3rd person mode all of the time. Another difference is that it's 18 and even though you can stab somebody in the skill in Brotherhood, it's only a 15 rating. Bioshock is also the creepiest, most atmospheric game that I've played (largely because I don't do creepy atmospheric games as a rule - just hearing the danger music in the first Tomb Raider made me crap myself).
The first few minutes of the game were just scary. Watching a shadowy mutant splicer murder somebody while I'm stuck inside a bathysphere... creepy. For the first hour or so, I was slinking around, but after that I became a lot more comfortable with the game.
I think that I'm going to enjoy going into the mythos and the background story of it. The lack of a character as the main character (I don't know what I look like or sound like, just that I have tattoos on my wrists) is a new one and it makes the world of Rapture and its characters the star of the game. I'm really enjoying unravelling little bits of story as I go through.
The philosophy behind Rapture, that any man is entitled to what he himself can do, makes for an interesting game. The idea that "You make your own decisions, but your decisions make you" sounds like an interesting tenet to base a game on. I was going to write more, but it's now late.
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