This review contains spoilers

While brimming with atmosphere and creative storytelling, Bioshock failed to captivate me in the same way that it's inspiration, System Shock 2 did. It quickly drops it's horror elements in favor of repetitive encounters. The game's clever twist is the peak of what it has to offer, and sputters out shortly afterwards, culminating in a disappointing final encounter.

Reviewed on Jun 06, 2022


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What always bothered me about Bioshock is the fact that it deconstucted the nature of linear narative gamedesign all the way until the big twist, and then went on to flush it all down the toilet and and bold faced follow narrative game design from that point forward, as if there was no deconstruction at all... Like, What the fuck?