BioShock
2K Boston
· 2K Games
Adventure, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Shooter
Release Date: August 21, 2007
BioShock is a horror-themed first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. The player is urged to turn everything into a weapon: biologically modifying their own body with Plasmids, hacking devices and systems, upgrading their weapons, crafting new ammo variants, and experimenting with different battle techniques are all possible. The game is described by the developers as a spiritual successor to their previous PC title System Shock 2. BioShock received high praise in critical reviews for its atmospheric audio and visual quality, absorbing and original plot and its unique gaming experience.
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Critic Reviews
4 reviews
COGconnected
84/100
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BioShock: The Collection has resurfaced on the Nintendo Switch and it is just as haunting, creepy, and emotional as you remember.
Destructoid
10/10
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A game of exceptional quality is exceptionally rare, rarer than generous review scores and excited praise in the high profile videogame market may indicate. There are games of unquestionable caliber that, while few in number, become games that define a generation. BioShock was one such game.
IGN
9.4/10
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Last year, 2K Games released a dark and compelling tale for Xbox 360 and PC owners set beneath the sea in the halls of an underwater city known as Rapture. Initially a utopian experiment for artists and scientists, the machinations of Rapture's citizens twisted the city into a nightmarish state of nature – one that you unfortunately find yourself trapped in. For a while, Bioshock appeared as though the first person shooter wouldn't ever see the light of day on the PS3, but thankfully, 2K Games t
GamesRadar
★★★★★
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A mesmerizing masterpiece of horror