Let me tell you how I came upon BioShock: a new client liked the 1950’s dark, art deco feel to it, and asked me if I had seen it as a reference for their site design. So, being the ever-selfless businesswoman, I decided to spend some time playing the game to see how it felt. And a conversation like this took place:
Me: “I know I have made it when I get to justify playing games for a client.”
Jason: “No, Téa, you’ll know you’ve made it when you get to charge clients for the hours spent playing the game”.
Man he’s a smartarse.
A couple of weeks later, I have just, right now, finished playing it. And I have to say, I think… I have found the perfect game. Not too hard that it alienates me (Hello Far Cry-where-I-played-the-last-level-in-God-mode-because-I-have-carpal-tunnel-and-suck), and enough depth and choice to the story that keeps my goldfish-like attention span.
I really don’t know that I can fault this game. There are so many ways to play it (and apparently the ending reflects *how* you played the game…of course, I am always the good guy and can’t bring myself to play the bad guy… so I am just going on rumour :))
Anyway, if you haven’t played it yet. DO. IT. NOW.
It is creepy. It is intelligent. And, it is currently 12:35am and I don’t know that I can sleep just yet because I may just have nightmares. But boy, is it fun!
Check out the demo here.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
I’ve got to agree with you, Bioshock is like the perfect FPS; and coming from a hardcore gamer I think it even rivals Half-Life in some ways.
I’m nearly at the end, but truth be told I’ve been trying not to complete the game because I love it so much that I don’t want it to end. There are some games which I really, really like and can find faults with it, but I honestly can’t find a single one with Bioshock.
I have to admit that I’ve harvested three Little Sisters but I’m glad I stopped ‘cus I got that Plasmid that you can use to hypnotise the Bid Daddies into becoming your bodyguards!
Methinks that Halo3 is going to pail a little in comparison, but what the hey, I’ve still got to get it
September 27th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Heh - see Sam got the new Halo this week and after watching him play for a while I said “this isn’t as good as Bioshock.” The next morning when he finally came to bed (his eyes were bleeding from the new game) he said “You’re right.” I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!
September 27th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Yeah, I got Halo 3 this week and it’s good, but really not as good as Bioshock.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:15 am
I bought it for my husband for our wedding anniversary this week.
You made me!
He hasn’t played it yet, but after you sang it’s praises I want it give it a go