Explore the underwater world of Rapture at your peril because something
has definitely gone wrong in this magical city. The story is set in
1960, you play as an unnamed character who is travelling over the
Atlantic Ocean in an airplane and your plane mysteriously crashes into
the sea. You find yourself floating outside a lighthouse in the middle
of the ocean and you take refuge inside and this is where you discover
the bathysphere thats takes you down to the bottom of the sea to
Rapture and your adventure starts there.
The graphics in Bioshock are one of the best for the Xbox 360 and no
wonder seeing that they are powered by Unreal Technology the same one
used in Gears of War. So the environment is fantastic in Rapture and so
are the character models of the common enemy in the city, the Splicers.
They are really realistic. I'll tell you the different types of
Splicers, there is: Nitro, Houdini, Thuggish, Leadhead and Spider.
There are plenty of other enemies such as machine gun turrets, grenade
turrets, security cameras and security bots that are released when you
get spotted by a security camera and these will keep shooting you for
60 seconds.
Now I will move on to one of the greatest parts of Bioshock that is
Adam. This is a substance you use at Adam Vending Machines (Gathers
Garden) to buy plasmids that genetically modify your body so you can
shoot electricity from your fingertips or pick up big objects and throw
them at your foes with Telekinesis. These plasmids are powered by Eve
which can be found or bought at vending machines.
This is where I get to the main point of the game. You must fight these
creatures who are called Big Daddies, you must kill them and either
Harvest (Kill) or Rescue the little girls they are protecting who are
called Little Sisters. The little girls go round Rapture with the Big
Daddies protecting them taking Adam from the dead bodies of the
citizens. Killing them or Rescuing them determines the outcome of the
story as you get the maximum amount of Adam by killing them but you can
claim other rewards by saving them and only getting a certain amount of
Adam from them.
You can also find weapons around Rapture like a Pistol, Machine Gun,
Shotgun, Chemical Thrower, Crossbow, Grenade Launcher. There are
different types of ammo that can be invented at certain vending
machines as well as automatic hack tools that can be invented from bits
of rubber pipe or batteries that you find lying around.
Finally, auto hack tools can be made to hack a security camera, turret,
security bot or safe or a 4 digit code lock automatically. There is the
manual way of hacking though where you uncover tiles to find different
pipes and as you are doing that you a blue liquid is running through
the pipes that were already laid before you started. You must switch
these pipes round to make a path for the liquid to go through to the
other point on the other side of the area. There will be different
obstacles you must avoid when doing this, I won't spoil it for you.
In other words Bioshock is an epic adventure/action game that has great game play and graphics also a story to match.
