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BioShock
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BioShock
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Game Chronicles
Game Revolution
AceGamez
concept, or hell, even an RPG, BioShock's brilliant campaign will make you realize that the first person shooter genre can and needs to be so much more than it is. This is well and truly a next generation shooter and every other developer should be taking
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Totally360
There are games that get pumped up with so much hype whipping people into a frenzy, parting with their hard earned cash, only to then leave the gamer wishing they had not wasted their money, and then there are games that truly deserve the hype and
...read the complete BioShock review at Totally360
The Onion
Once or twice a year, a game's technology and craftsmanship raise the bar so high that, Pixar-like, it leaves everyone raving. This summer, that game is BioShock. Fighting through the ruined underwater
...read the complete BioShock review at The Onion
Game Industry News
When 2K Boston and Australia, then known as Irrational Games, released System Shock 2 back in 1999, it was without a doubt one of the creepiest games I have ever played. It’s AI villain SHODAN and its scary voice still gives me nightmares to this day.
...read the complete BioShock review at Game Industry News
The Laser
Bioshock is easily the one of the most-anticipated shooters of the year, and one of the Xbox 360's flagship titles. The game is set in a dystopian underground paradise ruled by a fascist leader. Your mission is to escape the city, unravel its mysteries
...read the complete BioShock review at The Laser
Xboxic
think how many people will miss out on the experience. Gamers who generally avoid FPS titles may never consider this purchase and it’s also too bad the game is exclusive to PC and Xbox 360, as Ken Levine’s masterpiece should be played by anyon
...read the complete BioShock review at Xboxic
Empire
gun-slinging.Developed by Irrational Games - the coders behind the innovative System Shock adventures - BioShock thrusts players into a crumbling underwater city where the inhabitants are addicted to a drug that tore their civilisation apart and turned th
...read the complete BioShock review at Empire
G4 TV
Destroyed BeautyThe gameplay itself should be enough to sell you on this game. If you were a fan of the original System Shock, or you really dug Deus Ex, then you should get a huge kick out of this game. But there’s so much else to admire.
...read the complete BioShock review at G4 TV
The Onion (A.V. Club)
will keep message-boarders busy for weeks—as soon as they stop raving about the graphics.Frustration sets in when: Whenever you hack a machine or security device, the game jerks you over to a simplistic mini-game that wouldn't cut it on Pogo.com.Fin
...read the complete BioShock review at The Onion (A.V. Club)
Gaming Age
everything, the list seems endless. It's all too much, because you haven't played it yet -unless you're reading this review for accuracy. If you've got a friend who has the game, or a message board to talk about it on, you'll spend whatever time you have
...read the complete BioShock review at Gaming Age
GamePro
This neo-horror shooter will make your blood run cold, and it's one of the best games of the year.
...read the complete BioShock review at GamePro
GameTap
easier or by paying greater attention to passive plasmid skills that gave me a greater chance of survival. But I wanted to because it simply made things a little easier that way and it gave me a chance to experience a different side of the game. And ther
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GameSpy
An unparalleled achievement. No other game comes even remotely close to it in terms of raw emotional connection.
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IGN
BioShock stands as a monolithic example of the convergence of entertaining gameplay and an irresistibly sinister, engrossing storyline that encompasses a host of multifaceted characters. This is an essential gaming experience.
...read the complete BioShock review at IGN
Eurogamer
BioShock is the ultimate rarity: not only does it live up to its lofty promise, but exceeds it through simple, old fashioned talent and imagination - not to mention verve, style,class, wit, and sheer bloody-minded ambition.
...read the complete BioShock review at Eurogamer
UnderGroundOnline
The hype has reached such ridiculous levels at this point that BioShock really needs no introduction.
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1UP
Taken as a whole, as an experience that's richly and utterly complete, and one that engages the player in a constant dialogue, BioShock is virtually unassailable.
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Official Xbox Magazine UK
Gamer 2.0
It may very well be one of the best games to come out this year, and will surely be mentioned for a while to come. If you had doubts about how this game would deliver on its hype, you may now set yourself at ease. Irrational Games has delivered and then s
...read the complete BioShock review at Gamer 2.0
Jive Magazine
Developed by 2K development studios, 2K Boston and 2K Australia, BioShock is the highly anticipated first-person shooter that became available exclusively on Xbox 360â„¢ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games For Windows in North
...read the complete BioShock review at Jive Magazine
Console Obsession
As gamers, we all feel the bite of disappointment. The number of games that have been hyped, built up, presented as something they're not, to a group of people who believe every word is almost beyond counting. We all know it, and yet we fall for it every
...read the complete BioShock review at Console Obsession
Game Informer
It’s ingenious, enthralling, and a masterpiece of the most epic proportions. So without further delay, would you kindly enter Rapture so that you too can experience the best that video games have to
...read the complete BioShock review at Game Informer
ZTGameDomain
One of the most engrossing experiences in the history of interactive entertainment.
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Yahoo Games
The most salient fact about BioShock is that it's different. If it doesn't sell well, perhaps it's time to abandon hope and resign ourselves to the eternal recurrence of space dungeons and World War II. Games like BioShock are what we need. They are what
...read the complete BioShock review at Yahoo Games
GotNext
Briefly browsing a video game store shelf is enough to show someone just how commonplace science fiction-themed first-person shooters are in today's market. It takes a special game to stand out in this crowd, both in creativity and quality. Bioshock is
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Jolt Online Gaming UK
GamingExcellence
WHAM! Gaming
one of the most satisfying spectacles out there. These are all cool elements to BioShock, but it all comes back to choice -- decide how important these devices are to your experience. You don’t have to hack anything if you don’t want to, nor do you have t
...read the complete BioShock review at WHAM! Gaming
Wham Gaming
Welcome to the underwater paradise Rapture – a world where the great can live and work without being held back by the weak. Where you keep every fruit of your labour and the sky is the limit for
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GameZone
The first-person shooter genre is easily one of the most popular styles of video games, and to look back over the past several years, some of the biggest titles of all time and "game of the year" awards have been for games of the FPS genre.
...read the complete BioShock review at GameZone
Gaming Target
of those rare games that completely sucks you into its world. And that's just referring to Rapture itself; the game makes you feel like you're stuck in a total disaster where everyone's crazy and yet the place still has life thanks to what's remaining of
...read the complete BioShock review at Gaming Target
Strategy Informer
Jack, the protagonist whose name we know only from a name written on a cutscene birthday present, begins the tale plane-wrecked in the middle of the ocean, saved only by a very well placed underwater city. Rapture is “where the artist would not fear the
...read the complete BioShock review at Strategy Informer
Game Almighty
Lawrence
Good: Unbelievable atmosphere, variety of plasmids and tonics, music, voice acting, beautiful
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Talk Xbox
stands testament to just what the term "next-generation" should mean. The amount of care and innovation put into 2K's gem make it a truly remarkable and one of a kind game, and it stands proudly as one of the best single-player experiences that
...read the complete BioShock review at Talk Xbox
Xbox 360 Advanced
Cheat Code Central
Planet Xbox 360
AtomicGamer
BioShock is one of those games that goes down in history as a shining example for other developers to learn from.
...read the complete BioShock review at AtomicGamer
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