Bioshock Is Visually Amazing With A Great Story But Should It Really Be Called Game of the Year? Real Score: 8.4
Graphics: 10
Sound: 10
Value: 8
Tilt: 8
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Bioshock is a great game that is worth playing, however, should it be called game of the year? Bioshock has amazing features that have never been seen before in a game and that is what makes it different from other first-person shooters. Well the story goes like this, you are a man named Jack Thompson, who survives a horrible plane crash that landed him in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Once you start playing, you will swim to a light house and take a elevator that takes you down to a under water city called Rapture. The city of Rapture use to be a peaceful place but something wrong was going on. Moreover, the game takes place in the 1960's and Bioshock greatly shows that with a sci-fi twist. You will recieve many weapons, such as, a thompson, shotgun, crossbow, grenade laucher, and much more. But weapons aren't the only things you will be using to battle through Rapture, Jack will receive left hand powers, such as, flame, ice, wind, & bees. For example if you have the ice powers selected then you can freeze an enemy or with the fire power you can set the enemies on fire until they burn to death. However, you can't just go along an use those powers without "ammo" called eve. Also, there are many vending machines where you can purchase ammo,eve,health, and etc. Furthermore, the character on the cover of the game is a big enemy that you will battle against throughout the whole game, they are called big daddies. The big daddies protect mutated girls and so if you attack the girl, the big daddy will attack you. So you may be thinking that you will just leave the girl alone, but you need something called adams that the little girls hold. Once you kill the big daddy, you have a choice to harvest or rescue the little girl. If you rescue the little girl she then will become back to a normal human girl, but you will receive less adam. On the other hand, if you harvest her, she will die but you will receive more adam. The games ending is chosen by the way you treat the little girls. There are 3 different endings which I will not spoil but I will say that it is in your hands. Overall, Bioshock is a great and innovative game that has not been seen before in gaming history. This game will leave many memorable moments but should it be called game of the year. In my opinion, the answer is no, but I will leave that up to you to choose.