The game is severely overrated, let me tell you. As soon as you get the electric gel and crossbow no enemies are a challenge at all and it gets boring. The infamous and "dangerous" Big Daddy's sport piss poor AI and are only tough in the beginning when you have a wrench and a pistol, money is not an issue and you can buy heaps of AP rounds to blast them to hell while getting them stuck in many obstacles. Other enemies are equally stupid, running headlong at you, leaving you ample room and time to shoot their heads off. The bosses are very hard, making the game as a whole very unbalanced and frustrating.
You have also probably met every variation of enemy in the demo alone and seen most of the environments the game offers as well as tapped into most of the gameplay elements.
The plasmids are arbitrary only, like the suit in Crysis, and is mostly a gameplay gimick justified solely by the few instances where you HAVE TO use them in order to advance in the game.
A clear weakness in game design if you ask me, and I could easily play through the entire game without ever needing the special powers.
The revolution was not there, it is a good FPS, make no mistake, but don't expect a vastly superior shooter that offers much outside of the strict perimeters this genre has set itself.
Also; the story is kinda cool but told in an extremely idiotic and non-interactive way.
Long story short; SFX is amazing, the best I've heard in a game, the atmosphere is very good and the visuals are very good. The gameplay, the story and the narration is very, very shallow and the game bored me to the extent of making me quit maybe 2/3 of the way (unlike Crysis, that made me quit halfway).
Bioshock was to me the second biggest letdown of last year (the above should help you figure out which took number one).
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