Deriative But Fun.
posted by JalapenoW (CORAL SPRINGS, FL) Jan 17, 2011
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This game has been called a carbon copy of the original Bioshock. I'd say yeah, those arguments are well founded. You are a mute protagonist who travels to a seemingly abandoned city where science has run rampant destroying the population and mutating others whom you fight with conventional weapons and special powers. Along the way you find audio tapes and notes that give clues to the events of the past and this eventually leads to a big twist at the end with multiple endings depending on who you kill. The HUD even looks the same.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, if you're going to rip something off better rip off something good. It does do somethings better than Bioshock like the Time Manipulation Device(TMD) is cool, aging and regenerating objects and enemies. The game also does a better job of fleshing out it's world by with notes and more flash backs not to mention the story does focus on the children something missing from most disaster/sci-fi/horror games. In Bioshock we only learned of the little sisters, here we learned about the children in general and see some creepy s!#t.The game also has some great voice acting and atmosphere.
Where things turn a little sour is the pacing, your thrust from easy to difficult back to easy so many times you get whip lash. Plus the game only lets you have two guns and there is no way to change them when you realize you picked the wrong load out.
I still would recommend this game for fans of shooters, Bioshock or underrated games.
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