By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Gaming - Game Informer gives BioShock 10/10 and 10/10

sinha on 16 August 2007
Gametap: 10/10

BioShock is one of the few games that I’ve reviewed in my entire career that I feverishly want to go back through and play again to not only enjoy the dynamics of the gameplay, but also appreciate all of the effort put into a great story and an amazing underwater city named Rapture, which sucks you into its world the second you step through its doors.

Pros: Amazing story; amazing gameplay; amazing atmosphere.
Cons: Not being able to play through it again right away


UGO: A

Gameplay: A
Presentation: A
Value: A
Fun Factor: A
Overall: A

The hype has reached such ridiculous levels at this point that BioShock really needs no introduction. Know only that it is a truly massive game whose most overwhelming success is found in the thousands of small "holy crap" moments which crop up as you plug your way through the lengthy and involving story. This is emergent gameplay at its finest.

We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

Around the Network
sinha on 17 August 2007

To conclude, let this game cook in the oven just a little bit longer and wait for the superior PS3 version. Cleaned up textures, animations, AI, extra weapons, Home space, standard HDD and Blu-ray will make this flawed game into a perfect gem.

SDF Score: 5/10



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

Goddbless on 17 August 2007
sinha said:
To conclude, let this game cook in the oven just a little bit longer and wait for the superior PS3 version. Cleaned up textures, animations, AI, extra weapons, Home space, standard HDD and Blu-ray will make this flawed game into a perfect gem.

SDF Score: 5/10

Do you really count that as a review. It was barely a paragraph long, and it was obviously written by some deranged Sony fanboy. SMH...

 

Also could you people please stop calling Gears of War a First-Person Shooter! 



Love the product, not the company. They love your money, not you.

-TheRealMafoo

sinha on 18 August 2007

Destructiod

Verdict: Buy it!
Score: 10/10

"BioShock is to the FPS genre what Super Mario 64 was to platformers, what Chrono Trigger was to RPGs -- such a drastic leap forward that you wonder if it will ever be topped. Whether it will or won't be is largely irrelevant; what matters is that, after BioShock, the first-person shooter will never be the same."

 

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

sinha on 20 August 2007

Gamespot: 9/10

The Good

  • Absolutely amazing atmosphere and visual design with the technical prowess to back it all up
  • Lots of character customization options to play around with
  • Great voice cast really sells the storyline.

The Bad

  • Annoying hitches cause the game to freeze for a few seconds at a time, but it only seems to start happening after playing the game for several hours
  • Lack of death penalty keeps things fun, but also keeps things a little too easy.

 

According to Gamespot, BioShock deserves the same rating as Perfect Dark Zero and slightly worse than WarioWare Smooth Moves.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

Around the Network
sieanr on 20 August 2007

The "hitches" he talks about sounds very similar to what happens with a 360 on its last legs.

Only a handful of people on Neogaf reported the same problem, out of many who currently own/finished the game. Furthermore, this is the first review to mention this problem as far as I know.

And yes, I know I sound like the people bitching about the Lair review.



Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?

ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all. 

"Why do they call it the xbox 360? Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away" 

craighopkins on 21 August 2007

I think Bioshock will get game of the year or maybe Mario Galaxy

or Halo 3



sinha on 21 August 2007
Yahoo: 5/5

Games like BioShock are what we need. They are what we deserve. This is one of the best examples of where we should go. It's silly to argue whether games are art, which doesn't matter one whit, when you can simply point to BioShock and say: "Games are this."

We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

Smash_Brother on 27 August 2007

Having played 90% of the way through, I definitely like the game, but I can't see why this is getting perfect scores.

It has glitches where the tape recorders will wind up playing even when I don't prompt them to, as well as some strange plot holes.

All in all, an excellent game, but not deserving of a perfect score.



"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks

leo-j on 27 August 2007

@craighopkins

If its not cod4 or unreal tournament 3 that gets GOTY 07, then its going to be between metroid prime 3 and bioshock.



 

mM