This is the defining title that is going to change the world of First Person Shooters.  OK.

 

I would not agree, but let me tell you about this interesting game.

 

You start aboard a plane going somewhere and you hear a monologue within the person who is sitting on the seat, smoking a cigarette.  He says something along the lines of; my parents said that I would be someone important and they were right.

 

The next minute, the plane explodes and you are swimming to a lighthouse and then the doors close.  A man called Atlas eventually makes himself known to you after you submerge in some kind of pod and enter into an under water city.  He guides you to him basically.

 

He guides you to a machine with a vile of red liquid and you inject it and then fall unconscious.  A freaky couple of men walk by and one of them decides he wants to kill you but before they can do that, they’re disturbed.

 

This is the first time we get to meet the Big Daddy (called Mr b by the sister) and the sister.  At this point you don’t learn about the connection and I won’t spoil it here either.  Go buy the game and find out.

 

When you do revive; you’re ushered to help Atlas rescue his family and you start to learn about this under water city.  A man called Andrew Ryan had made his billions in the USSR and moved to the USA.  He realised that wherever he went, he was always being held back by the governments and decided to build a Utopian society people could work in unhindered by the man.  They weren’t held back by social constructs of morality, war or and thing else that would get in the way of any budding capitalists.  So he created RAPTURE.  A city that had endless possibilities.

 

The city would enable people to work, play and sleep without the fear of another country invading them.   I must admit that this city does remind me a lot of Atlantis.  Perhaps that is what the creator was going for in this game.    As you will see that just like Atlantis was destroyed, something happened to this city that caused it to be not so much destroyed but; let’s just say it looks like the place has been deserted by normal people for a long time and the only people left are; how can I put this; mad.

 

The one thing that they do have in common is that they put all their hopes in Rapture and something went wrong and seriously messed everyone up.  The trouble is this game is seriously story driven and it is difficult to write a review without giving too much of it away.

 

I played the PC version and for me it was fine.  I never suffered from any of the problems that has been mentioned regarding ATI graphics cards but then again; I own a Nvidia 8800 GTS card and the fact that it is advertised makes me think that perhaps it was designed on a computer with Nvidia in mind.  ATI cards are better card generally but don’t have stable drivers from my experience.

 

The game feels like any other FPS you have ever played.  The story is engaging and the game will tax the player.  It isn’t to hard and if you die, you’re brought back to life in some kind of life regenerator pod.  The game never explains why these things were created and I guess it is another way to describe some kind of auto save or something like that.

 

The only thing that I found disappointing about this games, is the ending.  It’s too short.  I would have preferred that it wasn’t left in the state that it was.  You can see that this was done with the sole intention of making sequels at some point in the future.  It latter turned out that Take 2 announced a new Bioshock every two years.  I personally can’t see it happening.  Evening if they had two or even three teams making separate games; the trouble is finding a good story that doesn’t look like a carbon copy of something else that has been made recently.

 

I enjoyed the game and would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys a good old story.  If you don’t have a PC that can run this game, try the XBOX 360 version.