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BioShock | 
| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $8.00
as of 9/6/2010 18:21 CDT details
You Save: $11.99 (60%)
Seller: The Pawn Sale
Rating:  872 reviews
Sales Rank: 530
Format: CD
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
16:9 Support
480p Support
720p Support
Dolby Digital 5.1
Downloadable Content
MPN: 710425299636
UPC: 710425299636
EAN: 0710425392191
ASIN: B000MKA60W
Publication Date: August 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Biologically mod your body with plasmids - genetic augmentations that empower you with dozens of fantastic abilities | | • | Take control of your world by hacking devices and systems | | • | Upgrade your weapons at Fire-For-Effect stations located through Rapture | | • | Pick up materials in the city to modify them at U-Invent kiosks | | • | Explore an incredible and unique art deco world hidden deep under the ocean, vividly illustrated with realistic water effects |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
BioShock lets you do the impossible as you explore a mysterious underwater city. When your plane crashes, you discover Rapture - an underwater Utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by genetically modified "splicers" and deadly security systems, you have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. As little girls loot the dead, and biologically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn. Now you're trapped, caught in the middle of a genetic war that will challenge both your capacity to survive and your moral allegiance to your own humanity. Make meaningful and mature decisions that culminate in the grand question - do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture to save yourself - or risk all to become their savior?
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Easily one of the best FPS ever. August 30, 2010
justsomeguy
The story, the atmosphere, the music, the effects - all of it - all of it works together to completely suck you in and make you part of the story. This is hands-down one of the best games for the 360. It's done so well, it's scary. I shudder just thinking about it!!!
Original and Atmospheric August 24, 2010
tron77 (Chicago)
Bioshock is a very unique, very fun first person shooter with an engaging, dystopian storyline and an environment that oozes with feeling. Set in an underwater city called Rapture, you use a combination of weapons and genetically enhanced abilities known as Plasmids to accomplish tasks that slowly reveal the mysteries of Rapture and its apparent destruction from within.
Bioshock has been endlessly praised for its environment, and this praise is justified. Rapture is an isolated, haunting place that throws the player into roller coaster of feelings with its odd mix of the familiar and the bizarre. The game looks incredible with beautifully rendered environments and amazing effects (dig the water!) and the performance on the PS3 was practically flawless and glitch-free. While after a while the look of the areas could sometimes borderline on monotonous, everything is kept fresh with the incredible sense of time and place. Bioshock takes place in 1960, and Rapture, as a city built by those who chose to flee American society and create a type of Ayn Rand-esque Utopia for themselves, retains that old time feel of mid 20th Century America in a way that, despite its startling contrast with its steampunk backgrounds, still feels very natural and genuine.
Another area where Bioshock really excels is in its sound design. This game begs to be played with surround sound. The excellent sound effects and ambient noises come from every angle and really help create a very high level of suspense and intensity. Hearing enemies from a distance but not being able to actually see them was very creepy, and the way my subwoofer rumbled when a Big Daddy was in the vicinity got my heart racing every time. Again, the developers have done a splendid job of creating a fantastic environment that stays in your head after you put the controller down, and the sound is a huge part of this.
The biggest flaw of Bioshock for me was the ability to re-spawn after getting killed and have the enemies be in the state you left them before you died. This made pretty much every enemy, with the exception of the final boss, beatable just by simply re-engaging them over and over again, as they wouldn't recover their health. A system of checkpoints, where you'd return to a save point and have to start the fight all over again, would have made the game much more challenging. From my understanding, the PS3 version has a patch that allows you turn off the vita-chambers (aka re-spawn points) so that you can do just that, but I was unaware of this until after I beat the game.
Also, the game description on the box touts the fact that you must make philosophical choices to determine the fate of the civilians of Rapture, and I've heard other's discuss this element of the game as well. In reality, this is a very light aspect of the game and not very deep or involved at all. Especially right after playing a game like Dragon Age: Origins where you have to make so many very difficult choices that have immediate and long term effects on your overall experience with the game, the "choices" of Bioshock seem like philosophy for middle schoolers in comparison. So while the decision making is an element of the game, I don't feel it's a strong point and feel there are lot of other great things about Bioshock that FAR outshine this aspect.
Overall, I really enjoyed Bioshock a lot and would highly recommend it. It has a great combination of strong gameplay, intriguing story, fantastic environments, intense action and hardcore suspense to keep you coming back for more. Turn the sound up and enjoy!
I'm in Rapture... August 19, 2010
Patrick Moore (Starke, FL USA)
over the game Bioshock. I absolutely love the graphics and the storyline is pretty involving. The game arrived just days after ordering it and in excellent condition. I haven't played the second game all the way through yet, but I can't wait!!!
The 2nd best game series in ps3 history!!! EPIC & Amazing August 13, 2010
C. R. Cruze (Spokane, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
wow what can i say about Bioshock, where to begin. This game is definitely one of a kind. I mean right of the back its just amazing an underwater late 1950's metropolis fathoms under the atlantic ocean. This game is a real fun play its a shooter/rpg. The graphics on the ps3 version are just beautiful and the attention to detail in the art-deco design of the city made me like art-deco design. Im a big fan of it now pretty damn cool. This game just immerses you its dark, scary, suspenseful and mysterious a game that makes you think and keeps you guessing. A great plot and story that takes a surprising turn mid-game. it also has a good and very fitting soundtrack for late 1950's. The sound effects are awesome in 7.1 surround and i highly recommend playing it on an HDTV. i just love playin this game over and over again which you should do cause you'll find things you didn't notice before. give this game a chance you wont regret it.
Perhaps the finest game this generation...so far. August 9, 2010
M. A. Johnson
If somehow you've been living under a rock and don't know the storyline/twist of Bioshock, you have incredibly good luck. I recommend putting yourself in a media blackout about the game, and picking it up before somebody spoils it for you. I will avoid discussing the twist in detail below, so feel free to continue reading this review.
Bioshock is not a groundbreaking or particularly difficult game in terms of its gameplay. It's a pretty standard first person shooter with RPG elements. Likewise, its graphics engine wasn't cutting edge when it was released, and certainly isn't now. However, both these elements are quite good, and serve as an excellent framework for what this game does better than most that I've played (and I've been gaming heavily since the Intellivision).
What really makes Bioshock stupendous are its incredible art direction, soundtrack, and writing. These three elements work together seamlessly to create a cohesive masterpiece that creates a realistically complete fantastical world. Each and every element of the Bioshock universe makes sense relative to the others (although you may have to discover obscure audio recordings or do a little thinking to figure out how some aspects, like why the vita-chambers resurrect you and no one else).
It also has quite possibly the most brilliant plot twist in all of video gaming history. If you love great games, and you particularly love games that take the time to tell a good story well, you owe it to yourself to check this one out.
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