(Note: I completed the original Bioshock, logging 20 hours on Games For Windows.) Bioshock is the spiritual successor to the masterpiece System Shock 2. The concept is ultimately the same. You're effectively alone, completely isolated in a complex, with mad and dangerous enemies all around you. Like System Shock 2, the game is full of overwhelming and masterful ambiance/atmosphere. Like System Shock 2, the game also affords the gamer with various options to vanquish enemies, from ammunition types, special powers, perks and various environmental interactions/combos. Also like System Shock 2, the game is possessed of one of the most wickedly clever plot-twists in gaming history.

Unlike System Shock 2, however, Bioshock has a unique Art-Deco world built on a plausibly surreal foundation that is rife with political intrigue and conflict. The game's roots are intelligent and plumb the questions of capitalism, governance, control and the essentialities of human nature. The universe itself is incredibly unique and imaginative and the voice acting is some of the best I've heard anywhere, much less a video game. Gunplay is solid. Graphics are more than serviceable, even over a decade later.

Look, it's simple, Bioshock is a video game masterpiece is the truest sense of the word. Play it. Now.

Must buy.

10/10.

(Note: I completed the original Bioshock, logging 20 hours on Games For Windows.) Bioshock is the spiritual successor to the masterpiece System Shock 2. The concept is ultimately the same. You're effectively alone, completely isolated in a complex, with mad and dangerous enemies all around you. Like System Shock 2, the game is full of overwhelming and masterful ambiance/atmosphere. Like System Shock 2, the game also affords the gamer with various options to vanquish enemies, from ammunition types, special powers, perks and various environmental interactions/combos. Also like System Shock 2, the game is possessed of one of the most wickedly clever plot-twists in gaming history. Unlike System Shock 2, however, Bioshock has a unique Art-Deco world built on a plausibly surreal foundation that is rife with political intrigue and conflict. The game's roots are intelligent and plumb the questions of capitalism, governance, control and the essentialities of human nature. The universe itself is incredibly unique and imaginative and the voice acting is some of the best I've heard anywhere, much less a video game. Gunplay is solid. Graphics are more than serviceable, even over a decade later. Look, it's simple, Bioshock is a video game masterpiece is the truest sense of the word. Play it. Now. Must buy. 10/10.