BIOSHOCK.
"We all make choices..."
This one, for me, is simple.
The wait for this game is finally almost over. I watch the first trailer at least once a day. It is one of the most awesome, perfectly made, memorable cinematics I've seen, and offers a riveting insight into the beginnings of the game's story. I love the era the game is set in. The music, the art deco architecture. Then there's the underwater bathysphere. A idealistic society's city that was home to only the best and full of hope but was "betrayed by the weak." I just love the creepy atmosphere and the feeling of isolation, despite being in the constant company of others. Others who are lost in their own minds, living ghosts of the past. The game is all about morality versus survival, full of choices and consequences. The gameplay is somewhat commonplace, being a FPS. That is until you start dealing with the plasmids. You can enrage enemies and make them attack another. Catch a grenade in mid-air and hurl it back where it came from. Light enemies on fire (or light something on fire and throw it at them), and watch as they run to water, then use electricity to shock the water. Put a trap or mine on the ceiling and put a trap on the ground that hurls them up into it. Engulf them with bees. We've all seen it, I know. But it never gets boring. Research the fallen. Fight Big Daddy's or don't. Kill the Little Sisters. Ok ok or don't. No linear, follow this hallway, read this message, (travel to this planet) etc. story. Do what you want, how you want. BioShock is different from most any other game, but for a lot of promising reasons.
Mass Effect looks amazing. I can't deny that. Really sharp graphics, intense gameplay, interesting and complex story. Travel all over the universe. Plus it has Julius from Saints Row. But it seems more "already been done" than BioShock. A culmination of Halo and Oblivion (I know, what could be better, right?). I am definitely going to check it out more and give it a try at some point, but I have a friend who is already strongly behind it who will probably show and tell me all about it. I will be enjoying BioShock by then, of course.But ultimately, I'm not that interested in being welcomed to a new galaxy.
"Welcome to Rapture" is much more like it.
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