If no one noticed, look at the last frame. It has a message similar to:

"Have fun defending a rich games company that doesn't know you and doesn't care about you".

He really should add "Adventures in fanboy baiting" to all his movies.

 This is a pretty bitter comment mate.  Does someone regret buying a ps3?

Totaly off subject but, Super Mario Brothers 2 was a rip-off of Doki-Doki p[anic. ANYHOO

Great review, I expecially agree with the easy/vita chamber factor. While playing I found myself charging at the big dadies without care just because I knew I'd get revived and their damage would remain the same. I realize that's kind of cheap of me but the old adage "If they didn't want me to they wouldn't have let me" seems to be the order of the day. The game could have been much better had come sort of penalty for dieing been devised.

Somehow they managed to turn a hardcore game into a casual one just by adding the "death doesn't matter" effect. I think people should be more outraged about that than Nintendo going after the casual market. I mean hell, they butchered a harcore title!! 

 umm no.. because I can get BioShock on the PC if I want it.

 Thats the exact reason I didn't use Super Mario Bros 2 as an example, heh

BTW, I just realized I own System Shock 2. lol.

Er... okay. First let me say I'm a bit confused by the people who are both A: upset that the vita-chamber made the game too easy and B: did not bother to simply load their saved game after dying rather than continuing out of the vita-chamber. If you didn't like the vita-chambers (I didn't, because I didn't need them) then don't use them. Problem solved. Wasn't that easier than complaining about the one thing you didn't like in a game that does so much else right and better than so many others? I thought it was.

Second, has anyone here who feels that this game is an exact copy of System Shock 2 (only under-water and with better graphics) even PLAYED System Shock 2? They are very different games. They don't feel the same at all; I played both and I wasn't thinking of SS2 at all as I was playing. The world was so convincingly unique, and the combat so much sharper than SS2, and the RPG elements so much more secondary than in SS2... Many of the design principles weren't even the same between both games. What similarities were there? Let's list them: 1. "Shock" in the title. Wow. 2. Story made deeper via audio logs and posters. Uh oh, that's been done twice before in the history of games... that's definitely a stale convention. 3. Er... they're both shooters with RPG elements? Yeah, but said combat/RPG systems are completely unique and don't feel the same at all, so even that point is moot. 4. Both games contain vending machines and other stations... to support the RPG elements. Can anyone see a way around that one? 5. Sorry, I ran out. 6. Seriously... All out.

Even if there were more similarities, we're talking about a "spiritual successor" here... some similarities are warranted and dare I say expected. The criticism here is pretty bogus. Anyone who can't appreciate that this game is extremely well-crafted... well I just don't get ya.

At least he said its contender for game of the year
he really didnt like the game, what a shame for him

People chill, it's just a fun review. Yes, I have played both, and he's right that they are VERY similar. He didn't even say that he doesn't like the game, he just said it's not the stunningly original groundbreaking game it promised to be. Games can be good without being groundbreaking, or even without living up to their promises (Fable anyone?). I finally coughed up for the game on the PC a couple days ago. It doesn't run great on my crap PC, but I can say with certainty that it's a great game, but has some issues, and it presents the same problem that all of these supposedly free choice games do:

There is no middle ground. Good and Evil are not the only two things in the world. I can't help but feel like this formula is getting really tired. It was fresh and brilliant with KOTOR, it was fun with Fable, it's starting to smell bad with Bioshock, and I can't help but feel it's going to be rotten with Mass Effect if they don't deepen it. Give us more than two choices please. This doesn't by any means make it a bad game, it's just not the revolutionary moral choices that it was made out to be.

As far as the gameplay elements, they really are remarkably similar to System Shock 2, which I popped in again today just to see if I was remembering it correctly. Admittedly, they are better executed than they were in System Shock 2, and the much more appealing setting makes the game feel more imersive, but the things that make Bioshock a better game than system shock 2 really have nothing to do with originality. It's the polish that sets it apart.