Bioshock (Xbox 360)

The one area which the 360 is not lacking in is First Person Shooters (FPS). The genre has moved on since the great days of ‘Wolfenstien 3D’ and ‘Doom’ and is now a very popular playground for console gamers. Games such as ‘Half Life 2’, ‘Call of Duty 4’ and ‘Halo 3’ act as colossi dominating the winter market. This does not take into account the also-rans that flood the shelves seeking to cash in on the winter gaming spree e.g. ‘Timeshift’, ‘Black Site’ and ‘Jericho’. In such a saturated market it takes something special to standout and become a game of the year contender. It takes something like ‘Bioshock’. Gameplay ‘Bioshock’ is a ...  Read the complete review

If you own a PC and love shooting games, you’ve probably heard of System Shock. It combined shooting action with RPG elements, which is similar to Deus Ex. But, it’s pretty much been a forgotten classic as many people didn’t play and now can’t because you can’t even find a copy of it! Well, 2K Boston/Australia (they are the developers of System Shock, they just changed their name) are giving you a chance to relive that experience with Bioshock. Bioshock is the apparent ‘spiritual successor’ to System Shock 2. Now, because I don’t do gaming on PC (plus, like I just mentioned, it’s hard to find a copy of SS2), I can’t confirm that. But what I can confirm is that Bioshock ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, I didn't even know this game existed until a friend of mine asked me about it, had I seen the demo on Xbox Live? No I said and set about downloading it. It's hard to believe that a game this good has had such little publicity, or maybe I've just not noticed it amongst the piles of other first person shooters. It wasn't so long back that the plethora or FPS games on the market had begun to make the whole genre seem a bit stale. Same stories, same environments, same weapons etc etc. Bioshock seems to have gone a long way to tackling many of these areas missing from other titles. I will do my best to cover some of these areas for you here. Let us ...  Read the complete review

WOW!! This is what i have been waiting for for a long time in the gaming world. A fantastic cinematic first person shooter experience, this game has it all. A gripping story line, amazing sets, decent voice acting (for once) and real heart pounding action that will get you addicted from the word go. As soon as i heard that his was being made i was intrigued, granted it took years to come out but it was well worth the wait. The basis of the game is a sci fi 1st person shooter in an under water world called Rapture your plane crashes into the sea and you are forced to make your way through the ocean until you get to an area with ...  Read the complete review

You are plunged into an underwater utopia that has between destroyed by it's own perfection. The population are mutated and they stand between you and your ticket out of this helhole they call Rapture. This underwater sanctuary created by a celebrated nutjob by the name of Andrew Ryan was once home to the earths brilliance: scientists, composers, philosophers - Rapture had it all. But as technology advanced, Rapture fell ever deeper into a struggle for normality as the public became addicted to body enhansing plasmids, Rapture began to die. The result was the setting for one of xbox 360's most amazing games ever created. The graphics are unparaleled in any other game and ...  Read the complete review