Review of Bioshock

At this point in time, if you don't know what Bioshock is, I deserve the right to laugh at you. Bioshock has become a major gaming series and is currently in production of it's third game, Infinite. The game is especially known for one character, the Big Daddy. I decided to start from the beginning with the first Bioshock. The game was fairly easy and I beat it in 2 days, not all in one sitting of course.

Right from the get go, I noticed one thing in particular, this games graphics are AWESOME! It should have awesome graphics. The fact that Rapture used to be a utopia to all those who felt the same as Andrew Ryan.

Right away, I was thrown into the fire when I met the first splicer of the thousands I was going to have to fight. I also met Atlas, my friend and guide through the city. I soon met Ryan who quickly accused me of being from the CIA or the KGB. It was at that point that I realized Ryan was essentially the leader of the Splicers.

Probably my favorite part of the game was the Plasmids. God I wish I could shoot lightning out of my hands, that'd be awesome. I was a bit worried that I'd be all over the place trying to aim, but I was worried for nothing. It was really easy to control my character.

When I came up to my first Big Daddy fight, I knew I had to play it smart and try to keep my distance while spamming the crap out of my shotgun and plasmids. Now after defeating Big Daddies you get a choice, that choice is to either harvest or save the Little Sisters. And well, I decided to save all of them.

Finally I came face to face with Andrew Ryan, and this guy is completely delusional. He assumed I was an agent out to stop him, he killed Atlas' family, sent wave after wave of Splicers after me. And when I finally come face to face with him, he's playing mini golf in his office. Well thanks to him, my character realized that he was being brainwashed with a trigger word, "Would You Kindly," And that's when it clicked for my character, Atlas wasn't who he claimed to be. Atlas was actually Ryan's old colleague Fontaine, who was now out to kill Ryan and claim Rapture as his own. My character had unfortunately been forced into killing Ryan, after which he also realized that he was Ryan's son who Fontaine had kidnapped, "programmed" to work for Fontaine with that trigger word and sent off to the surface to wait for the right time to put his plan into action.

Towards the end of the game my absolutely favorite part of the game happened. I got to become a Big Daddy. The splicers at this point tried to be clever and pretend to be dead. But I was easily able to figure it out and kill them before they could jump me.

Finally it came time for me to face Atlas/Fontaine, well a supped-up-Adam version of Fontaine. Let me tell you this, I'd rather face 5 Big Daddies, cause Fontaine was extremely easy to defeat since I had maxed out my health packs and could just stand there and shoot him while he attacked me.
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Final Verdict

This game was clearly enjoyable. And it wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. The surprised Splicer attacks were the only thing that really got me freaked and only for a second. I definitely would recommend you get this game if you like these kinds of games.