Bioshock just ticks all the boxes. Right from the beginning, it becomes obvious that the people that worked on it are very talented.
Bioshock starts with one of the single most incredible openings in the FPS genre if not video games in general. Fantastic level design and art style inspired heavily by Beaux Arts and Art Deco. You discover and start to understand the story and the lore by exploring Rapture. Even different corpses on the ground tell their own story. Every element around the city is full of details, character and charm from vending machines to the Splicers (the main enemy type), giving you an insight into the events that led them to where they are. The atmosphere is phenomenal and unique.
Gameplay and the shooting are addictive, just like old-school shooters. The fights with the Big Daddies can be tense and brutal until the later levels where you already have enough equipment to deal with them quickly.
Most of the negative reviews are because of the remastered version. I don't know if they patched it or I'm simply playing a different version from the others but I haven't encountered any bugs/glitches. The game never crashed and I was able to run it at a stable 200 FPS. The only "complain" I have is the lack of graphics options but It's not that big of a deal.
So now, would you kindly buy Bioshock?
Bioshock starts with one of the single most incredible openings in the FPS genre if not video games in general. Fantastic level design and art style inspired heavily by Beaux Arts and Art Deco. You discover and start to understand the story and the lore by exploring Rapture. Even different corpses on the ground tell their own story. Every element around the city is full of details, character and charm from vending machines to the Splicers (the main enemy type), giving you an insight into the events that led them to where they are. The atmosphere is phenomenal and unique.
Gameplay and the shooting are addictive, just like old-school shooters. The fights with the Big Daddies can be tense and brutal until the later levels where you already have enough equipment to deal with them quickly.
Most of the negative reviews are because of the remastered version. I don't know if they patched it or I'm simply playing a different version from the others but I haven't encountered any bugs/glitches. The game never crashed and I was able to run it at a stable 200 FPS. The only "complain" I have is the lack of graphics options but It's not that big of a deal.
So now, would you kindly buy Bioshock?