Bioshock was one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the year, being produced by 2K games, formerly Irrational Games, the creators of the almost legendary System Shock. Within Bioshock, you are Jack, who survives a plane crash into the sea and manages to swim to the entrance of the underwater city of Rapture. The intro sequence, which includes the crash, sets the scene very well, and also demonstrates the awesome graphics. The plane sinks into sea, whilst the plane’s fuel burns on the surface of the rolling waves. Wow! So, you get into Rapture, and go down in a lift. It is at this point that the though that has gone into the look of Rapture ...  Read the complete review

After surviving a plane crash somewhere in the middle of the ocean in the very early 1960s, you seem to stumble across a rather splendid looking underground city, called Rapture. A bathysphere takes you deep underwater to the city where you suddenly realise that something is terribly wrong. A man called 'Atlas' offers to be your guide via radio if you'll do him a favour and save his family, though as you step out of the bathysphere to see Rapture's amazing art-deco architecture in ruins and hear creepy noises in the distance, you start to have second thoughts. Still, you have to find a way to get home somehow and no-one else is going to help ...  Read the complete review

Set in an underwater dystopia where scientific research free of moral and ethical boundaries has had catastrophic consequences, Bioshock puts the player in the shoes of the sole survivor of a plane crash who must now battle through the decaying remains of Rapture in order to uncover a truth more horrifying than the denizens of this city. Drawing upon inspiration from Ayn Rand, Bioshock is both an entertaining first-person shooter and an interesting exercise in psychology. The storyline is one of the most intriguing of its type, with characters developing slowly and several important plot twists that truly immerse the player in the game world, provoking some ...  Read the complete review

Bioshock isn't the kind of game I would usually choose to play. It looked too gory and too scary for my liking but no matter how I tried to avoid it, I couldn't help keep hearing how good it is. Considering the price has dropped significantly now, I couldn't help but feel there was no harm in giving it a go and I can happily say I was wrong to avoid such a great game. Plot: Now Bioshock is a game that relies heavily on its plot to make it as good as it is therefore not much can be said without spoiling it but basically you play an anonymous person that knows nothing about himself. You journey through an art deco city under the sea called Rapture and as you ...  Read the complete review

Having just finished ranting about the awfulness of the book Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, I should probably now balance things out by praising the computer game Bioshock, elements of which are based on the book. Bioshock is set in the underwater city of Rapture, an isolated metropolis in the art deco style. Back in the 1940s, businessman Andrew Ryan decided that he had enough of governments, so he built an undersea kingdom, intended to be paradise free from government control, free from parasites, free from from slavery. Fast forward to the 1960s and a plane crashes just above Rapture. The lone survivor, you find yourself drawn to the city. Unfortunately, you ...  Read the complete review