https://alinuxuser.com/tags/bioshock/ Recent content in Bioshock on alinuxuser https://alinuxuser.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://alinuxuser.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo en-us Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500 https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2010/05/reviews/bioshock_review/ Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500 https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2010/05/reviews/bioshock_review/ <p><em>I finished this game on <code>Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 9:45:00 PM</code>. This review was first published on Saturday, May 1, 2010.</em></p> <p>BioShock for me is one of those games that I had a hard time getting into. Unlike most people who were mesmerized with the setting of Rapture, I sort of found it a little dull. I persisted nevertheless and it paid off.</p> <p>It has a very unique setting - an underwater city. Set in the 1960s, the game captures the feel of the era very well. Beginning with a plane crash in the Atlantic that leads the main character Jack into the underwater city Rapture, which is the brainchild of visionary, Andrew Ryan. The story is not very clear right from the start, but it unravels soon enough. The idea of telling the story through audio logs is not particularly revolutionary, we have seen an attempt made in Doom 3, which had a huge collection of audio logs and diaries. That went by virtually unacknowledged, and Doom 3 was accused of not having a story at all. Not so here. Voice acting is brilliant. Story is a little complex to understand at the beginning, its easy to get the big picture, but the nuances aren&rsquo;t very clear. It took me a little bit of time to connect all the dots.</p>