There were pros and cons. Honestly, I saw the game as rather uninspired.
The environment, the feel, the characters...all very brilliant.
The gameplay, powers, enemies...stale.

Same reason last of us and uncharted are so praised, no one really knows lol.

Did you complain about the illusion of choice?




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Great commentary on the nature of interactive entertainment that would set the stage for Infinite.

The time is the reason. When it was new I played it and I loved it.

Playing it in 2010+ kills it because as every realistic looking game it aged like shit. (its just unreal engine 2 not 3!)

The atmosphere was fantastic when it was new but the visuals kill part of the atmosphere today.

Excellent gunplay with extremely deep combat. So many different ammo types and powers and environmental elements make for tons and tons of great combinations.

The setting. Probably the best I have ever experienced in a game. The atmosphere is just unmatched.

Big Daddies. Hearing them lumbering around created an emotional mix of fear (of death, they were quite strong) and excitement (they were awesome fights, and what goodies is he gonna drop?) that games rarely invoke nowadays.

Awesome story too. Just a complete package of a game. Best SP game of last generation imo. I also loved Bioshock 2 and Infinite.

Bioshock was a good game ... That's all there really is to say. As for deserving praise it does get some credits from me atleast.

It was the only Bioshock that wasn't linear in design.

That itself made it the best for me.

Because what it did with its atmosphere and story was more important that what it did as a shooter. I've played "better shooters" before, but none of them meant anything after I was done. Bioshock stuck with me because it accomplished something that I had never before experienced in a game.

To me, "shootin' dudes" wasn't the point at all. It's different for each person depending on why they played it and what they expected.

Never got around to finishing it but i can see why people loved it so much especially if you go intp the thing blind. The intro was incredible and the lore is amazing. Also just the terror of meeting a big daddy and the creepy girls for the first time is sweet. I feel like the best way of playing this is by knowing nothing about it. Kind of how i look at fallout aswell. Just slowly figuring out what and how things happened... Now i want to play fallout 3 again

It was pretty impressive for its time, with a unique story/atmosphere/gameplay. Better games have come out since its release, but not much will give you quite the same experience if you had played it back in 2007.