Bioshock Review: A must have game on Xbox 360 or PC

Bioshock has a great plot that will submerge you into the corrupt and deviated world of the underwater city called Rapture.

Near the begining of the game you will have to make a decision that will trascend into one of the three possible endings that you will get.

The game belongs to the first person shooter genre with at twist of role playing. You will be the character which means that you only see the hand carrying a weapon or just the hand. When you look down, you don't see the feet, so you are also a ghost. Nahh just kidding but you really don't see the feet.

The twist of Role playing is because you have a plasmid (we'll address that in a moment)and weapon's menu. When you access any of this menus, the game pauses and you have all the time in the world to select the best plasmid or weapon for the task at hand. There will be moments when the action takes place in slow motion because you are fighting one or several enemies while you switch between plasmids and weapons that cause the action to stop and resume.

You will get weapons like: pistol, machine gun, crossbow, grenade launcher, chemical thrower (liquid nitrogen and napalm). Like the chemical thrower, each weapon has different types of rounds.

A plasmid is a genetic modification that you can purchase or adquire during the game. With the plasmids you can freeze enemies, throw flames, launch bee swarms from the insides of your hands, throw and pull objects with telekinetic powers, etc. The plasmids have a meter called EVE which represents the number of these huge injections that are the fuel for the plasmids special abilities.

You can improve the majority of plasmids by getting ADAM which is the game currency that you will need to buy the improvements in vending machines. You can get the ADAM, most of the time, when you take it away from little sisters.

Little sisters are little like their name and they are also mutated girls. So they are little mutated girls that go around carrying huge hypo injections. Sounds easy huh? like taking candy from a baby when you have all sorts of weapos and plasmids. Actually to get the ADAM from the little sisters, you have to kill the Big Daddies which are the sub-bosses on every level. They are like the guy that appears in the cover of the game and the bodyguards of the little sisters. Most of them range from a bit tough to very difficult to kill.

You will also have to confront splicers which are the men and women from Rapture. They also have the plasmid abilities that defines them in different types of splicers that are weak against multiple attacks of weapons and plasmids.

There are some mini games to hack cameras, safes, bots, etc. You also have tonics that affect the performance and actions of the character.

Besides all of that, you have the war between the head of the mob and the creator of Rapture. Along the game you will hear the confessions or thoughts of the people in Rapture that will help you decide which side you'll be in unless you are just playing to beat the game and don't care about the plot.

This is a bit of the essence of Bioshock. Besides that, the graphics are awesome and the sound transports you to Rapture if you can enjoy it with a home theater. For me it falls under the category of a "must buy".
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