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| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $13.94
You Save: $6.05 (30%)
New (25) Used (15) from $12.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  233 reviews
Sales Rank: 642
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 21962
UPC: 710425219627
EAN: 0710425219627
ASIN: B000MK694E
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Genetic freaks run riot in 1920's styles underwater city October 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bioshock from 2K games is a pretty horrific but fun FPS game that has some seriously impressive underwater city designs coupled with some of the heaviest guns and gruesome characters to have hit the games market in a long time. The game is based on missions usually revolve around collecting items as you go across maps killing mutants and making a choice over if you should harvest `Adam' from little zombie girls or not. If you don't you get a positive ending. If you do, you get a negative game ending.
The real star of this game is the underwater city. It looks like the cities in Star Wars episode II but underwater with a 1920's feel. The city has been created by Fontaine, who installed genetic gene banks and dispensers to allow the citizens to perk themselves up, only the citizens hacked the machines, overdosed on Adam and turned themselves into killing freaks. They run around the place barking mad and you must kill them with a choice of either using special powers, a wrench, pistol, machine gun, shotgun, rocket launcher, flame thrower or crossbow. You can take pictures of the enemy to learn more about them and inflict more damage. You collect money to buy upgrades to your body and guns.
All in all Bioshock is worth playing on a Directx 10 machine for the full effect. Most of it is standard run around and kill everything on the screen without thinking too much and the story is worth following as you listen to tape recorders reveal what is happening to you. Although it takes awhile to break into the swing of things the game is worth sticking with and genuinely becomes a little addictive like the mutagen `Adam'. At the same time as having some of the best graphics for any FPS game available it does get a little cliched and doesn't really do anything new or anything you haven't seen before. Granted the AI is not bad but sometimes security can get a little boring to deal with, especially the 50 second alarm attacks. There isn't a whole lot to complain about and when this game gets fun, it really does take off. Play Bioshock if you got the PC to run it.
Pros
Bioshocking fun
The city design is amazing
Fast and furious
Cons
Nothing you haven't seen before
Requires high system spec
 Wow best fps ever! I'd waste my vaction playing it. October 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hello, An absolute blast to play. It'll run your computer into the ground! I really like fps but when it as frighting and bug free as this game has turned out to be all you'll be able to do is lock your self in the computer room and Rambo the hell out of this game! Best script so far. Smart AI and well thought out! Here is an example of a game strategy... Hack the anti-personnel 50cal in the Neptune corridor then hang proximity mines around the cannon then watch the A.I. send splicers to beat (Re-hack) the 50cal only to find the mines hanging from the walls like Christmas stockings.It'll rip'em a another one:o As for a capable computer I'd recommend additional VGA cooling and short duration play 1/2 hrs max.If I could recommend any game play improvements it would be while the splicer is suffering an electric blast and I switch to the shot gun at blank range I should get the satisfaction of rip'en them in half!(they never fragment).also The telekinesis ability to drop an object should be the rt 2 trigger buttons and not the trigger and restore hypo button.Almost every time my character will replenish the hypo rather than drop the object in telekinesis. Other than that quit your job and lock your self in your apt...I'm almost feeling sorry for the nasty splicers...Almost:)
 Great Game, But It Is Not Worth The DRM Scheme October 22, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This game uses the same horrible DRM scheme that is found on Far Cry 2, Mass Effect, Crysis Warhead, Spore, Dead Space, Sacred 2, and Red Alert 3. I refuse to purchase a game that requires me to ask permission to install the game. There are several games that I own that I have had to install more than five times for various reasons. That is why I refuse to purchase a game that limits the number of times I can install the game, let alone a DRM program (like SecuRom) that could be considered a trojen horse.
As a side note, this DRM method does nothing to stop piracy. All of these games were pirated within hours of their release and in the case of some, like spore, even before their release (with the exceptions of Sacred 2 and Red Alert 3 which have not been released yet, however the developers confirmed that they would use the SecuRom activation DRM scheme). The only thing this DRM does do is prevent this game from entering the used game market.
Just say no to the Digital Rights Mafia October 22, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was so close to buying this game: it was in my cart and I was about to check out. But then I was was reading reviews to see what other games people who liked this game might recommend, only to find out about the malware called Securom. So I did a bit more research...
Thanks, but no thanks. Why does Amazon even sell malware like this?!? It is reprehensible.
Very fun, but not for the squeamish October 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, be warned that if you will be traumatized by mutilated dead bodies lying around, this game will not be for you. However, if you can handle that, this game is one of the better single-player first person shooters you will find. Graphics and sound are great. No bugs that I am aware of. Good story. Many hours of play. You will have a good time with this one.
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