Beautiful visuals with some of the best art direction and water effects you’ll find in any video game; Plasmids and the way they interact with the environment and the AI make combat very versatile and fun all throughout the entire game; Gripping and...
Lack of variety in enemies; Hacking minigame becomes repetitive and tiresome for how much you have to play it; Replay value solely dependent on how much you’re willing to go through the game again.
Like Half-Life 2 before it, BioShock is a breath of fresh air in a genre that has been saturated with the same old settings, the same old abilities, and the same old lame storylines that mostly serve as just a reason to shoot things up. Now, would you ...
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Published: 2007-08-29, Author: James , review by: Geek.com
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