Bioshock was definitely one of the best games I've played, period, in several years. The writing and direction of the game are superb, the art style unmatched, and the audio (ambient sounds, voice acting) is a cut above anything else out there.
The game is smart and classy, and the gameplay is also excellent, although many of the plasmids/skills were not as effective as others.
Listening to those audio logs in the darkness, waiting for shit to jump out at you... it was a very engrossing and captivating experience.
If you just ran through the game at full speed and ignored every hole you could explore, and never listened to the tapes, you would miss a lot of the storytelling.
The ending was the games only weakness - an easy bossfight with a surprisingly short ending sequence that made it feel a little anticlimactic. In all other areas, Bioshock was incredible.
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