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Also on:PS3, Xbox 360, Mac
GF Rating
8.9

665 ratings

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Game Details

  • Number of Players 1

Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence, Bad Language, Gambling

Game Description

After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn. BioShock forces you to question the lengths to which you will go and how much of your humanity you will sacrifice...to save your own life.

BioShock is loaded with some of greatest, most modifiable weapons to ever blast their way into a shooter. But guns alone won’t be enough to defeat the devious AIs of Rapture. There are literally hundreds of other strategies players can use to take out his enemies. Here’s just a few things you can do a foe:

  •  Catch his Grenades in Mid Air and Toss Them Back at Him
  •  Freeze Him Solid and Shatter Him with Smack of your Wrench
  •  Lead him and his comrades to water and Zap them all with 1000 Volts
  •  Burn Him Up With Home-Made Molotov Cocktails
  •  Booby Trap Healing Machines and Watch Them Blow up IN his Face
  •  Brainwash Him to Become Your Personal BodyGuard
  •  Invent your own Ammo Types to Prey on his Vulnerabilities
  •  Turn his own Security System Against Him
  •  Light Him on Fire and Launch Heat Seeking Missiles At him
  •  Torment Him with Plagues of Insects
  •  Take Research Photos of Him to Learn his Weaknesses
  •  Send Him Flying into the Ceiling to Knock him Senseless
 
  •  Take control of your world by hacking mechanical devices, commandeering security turrets and crafting unique items critical to your very survival.
  •  Upgrade your weapons with ionic gels, explosives and toxins to customize them to the enemy and environment.
  •  Genetically modify your body through dozens of Plasmid Stations scattered throughout the city, empowering you with fantastic and often grotesque abilities.
  •  Explore a living world powered by Ecological A.I., where the inhabitants have interesting and consequential relationships with one another that impact your gameplay experience.
  •  Experience truly next generation graphics that vividly illustrate the forlorn art deco city, highlighted by the most detailed and realistic water effects ever developed in a video game.
  •  Make meaningful choices and mature decisions, ultimately culminating in the grand question: do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture or save them?
 

Critic Reviews

IGN Review (9.7 out of 10)

BioShock is Irrational's finest offering to date, as well as the swan song for the Irrational brand in a way, since they recently relinquished their longstanding and well-established studio name for the more corporate, faceless tag of 2K Boston and 2K Australia. BioShock is a first-person shooter se...more

User Reviews

Average Member Rating: 8.9 out of 10

Great game. (9 out of 10)

posted by phillyUnion on May 3, 2012
Member since Apr 2012
1 out of 1 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
I started this game when it first came out in 2007, played about half way through, but never finished it. About a year later I did the same thing, and never finished it. So finally I decided I would play through Bioshock from beginning to end, and I am glad I did. The game can get a little borin...more

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Specs & Requirements

Minimum OS Windows XP (SP2) or Windows Vista

Minimum Processor 2.5GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent

Minimum Memory 1.0 GB RAM

Minimum Graphics Pixel Shader 3.0 compliant video card with 128 MB RAM and floating point frame buffer blending

Minimum Hard Drive 7.0 GB free hard disk space

Minimum Sound 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Recommended OS Windows XP (SP 2) or Windows Vista

Recommended Processor 3.0 GHz dual core processor

Recommended Memory 2.0 GB RAM

Recommended Graphics Pixel Shader 3.0 compliant video card with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better)

Recommended Hard Drive 7.0 GB free hard disk space

Recommended Sound 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Note Not supported on Windows 7

Copyright

© 2002-2008. Take-Two Interactive Software and its subsidiaries. Developed by 2K Boston, 2K Australia, and 2K Marin. BioShock, 2K Games, 2K Boston, 2K Australia, 2K Marin, the 2K logo, the 2K Boston logo, 2K Australia logo, the 2K Marin logo and Take-Two Interactive Software are all trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.