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The game is fun but it treats you like a criminal. It was fun.Tonight I was again prompted to enter my activation code. So I'm locked out from playing a game that I paid good money for until I return home and dig the manual out of my filing cabinet. I suspect that this is because earlier today I installed Spore for my daughter, and both games use this half-baked SecuROM system.
I bought BioShock about three weeks ago. Now I see what people mean when they say this sort of "copy protection" only encourages pirates, because their cracked versions of these games don't harass them. I tried posting on the 2K forums, but have been ignored. After spending literally hours trying to "Activate" it (the part where you type in a long string from the package and the installer asks their server if the code is valid - in my case some settings in IE somehow prevented it from connecting to their registration server, even though IE could browse the net just fine, as could Firefox, and their installer stupidly rolls back the installation if the activation fails, hence hours) I was eventually successful.
As it turns out, I am traveling (I'm playing from my laptop) and I don't travel with all of my install codes with me. Only honest customers like me get screwed. I then played the game every few days, maybe ten hours total. Again.
This game got 5 stars on x-play,and i would also give it the same rating.In the game,you are a man onboard an airplane when it crashes into the water,luckily,you're alive.you swim to a tower and then take a pod underwater.You find that Rapture is completely crazed up with splicers,the most common enemies in the game.splicers are crazy,they wear buuny masks and try to kill you for ADAM.ADAM is like money that you can use to upgrade your guns,buy guns, or buy powers.You get needles in the game that you can you use to inject yourself and get powers.There is electro bolt(thunder)which you can use on splicers in the water so that they die a kind of slow,but surely painful death.There is also fire,ice,teleckenesis,the ability to through huge swarms of insects,and Big Daddy hypnosis bomb.Big Daddys are huge,monsterous,things that have either a huge spining drill,a huge spining gatling gun, or a huge spining grenade launcher.They protect the Little Sister,because,well,they are little.They are little but evil.They go around using huge needles to take ADAM from splicers.Splicers,or you cannot harm or go near them or you will have drill through you're body in no time.The Big Daddy hypnosis bomb lets you through a bomb at any active Big Daddy and he will help you,exept he cannot leave a room,so it kind of sucks.You should prbably go for tricking a splicer near a Little Sister.The graphic are great and gory.This,for me is one of the best games ever.
You collect money to buy upgrades to your body and guns.All in all Bioshock is worth playing on a Directx 10 machine for the full effect. Play Bioshock if you got the PC to run it. Bioshock from 2K games is a pretty horrific but fun FPS game that has some seriously impressive underwater city designs coupled with some of the heaviest guns and gruesome characters to have hit the games market in a long time. If you don't you get a positive ending. There isn't a whole lot to complain about and when this game gets fun, it really does take off. The city has been created by Fontaine, who installed genetic gene banks and dispensers to allow the citizens to perk themselves up, only the citizens hacked the machines, overdosed on Adam and turned themselves into killing freaks. You can take pictures of the enemy to learn more about them and inflict more damage.
Granted the AI is not bad but sometimes security can get a little boring to deal with, especially the 50 second alarm attacks. At the same time as having some of the best graphics for any FPS game available it does get a little clichéd and doesn't really do anything new or anything you haven't seen before.
It looks like the cities in Star Wars episode II but underwater with a 1920's feel. Although it takes awhile to break into the swing of things the game is worth sticking with and genuinely becomes a little addictive like the mutagen `Adam'.
The game is based on missions usually revolve around collecting items as you go across maps killing mutants and making a choice over if you should harvest `Adam' from little zombie girls or not. Most of it is standard run around and kill everything on the screen without thinking too much and the story is worth following as you listen to tape recorders reveal what is happening to you.
ProsBioshocking fun The city design is amazingFast and furiousConsNothing you haven't seen beforeRequires high system spec If you do, you get a negative game ending.The real star of this game is the underwater city.
They run around the place barking mad and you must kill them with a choice of either using special powers, a wrench, pistol, machine gun, shotgun, rocket launcher, flame thrower or crossbow.
I really like fps but when it as frighting and bug free as this game has turned out to be all you'll be able to do is lock your self in the computer room and Rambo the hell out of this game. Here is an example of a game strategy.
send splicers to beat (Re-hack) the 50cal only to find the mines hanging from the walls like Christmas stockings.It'll rip'em a another one:o As for a capable computer I'd recommend additional VGA cooling and short duration play 1/2 hrs max.If I could recommend any game play improvements it would be while the splicer is suffering an electric blast and I switch to the shot gun at blank range I should get the satisfaction of rip'en them in half.(they never fragment).also The telekinesis ability to drop an object should be the rt 2 trigger buttons and not the trigger and restore hypo button.Almost every time my character will replenish the hypo rather than drop the object in telekinesis. Hack the anti-personnel 50cal in the Neptune corridor then hang proximity mines around the cannon then watch the A.I.
Hello, An absolute blast to play. Smart AI and well thought out.
Other than that quit your job and lock your self in your apt.I'm almost feeling sorry for the nasty splicers.Almost:) It'll run your computer into the ground.
Best script so far.
That is why I refuse to purchase a game that limits the number of times I can install the game, let alone a DRM program (like SecuRom) that could be considered a trojen horse.As a side note, this DRM method does nothing to stop piracy. This game uses the same horrible DRM scheme that is found on Far Cry 2, Mass Effect, Crysis Warhead, Spore, Dead Space, Sacred 2, and Red Alert 3. The only thing this DRM does do is prevent this game from entering the used game market. All of these games were pirated within hours of their release and in the case of some, like spore, even before their release (with the exceptions of Sacred 2 and Red Alert 3 which have not been released yet, however the developers confirmed that they would use the SecuRom activation DRM scheme). I refuse to purchase a game that requires me to ask permission to install the game. There are several games that I own that I have had to install more than five times for various reasons.
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