Bioshock: Video Game Review

Bioshock

reviewed for Xbox 360

rated M for Blood and Gore, Drug References, Strong Language, Intense Violence and Sexual Themes

Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Moral Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Bioshock was one weird game. It has received numerous awards for Game of the Year for 2007 and is one of the best selling games of the year. However, there is more than what meets the eye with Bioshock.

Bioshock is a creepy horror survival game in which you are trapped in the creepy failed Utopia city called Rapture. Apparently, the founder's philosophy was that every person could do whatever made them happy. However, this soon ended up destroying the city as people began to deteriorate due to overusing drugs that gave them powers such as telekinesis, lightning and fire. The only way you are going to escape is by utilizing these powers and fighting off rather graphically the creepy, zombie like people lurking in the shadows and blinking lights of the blood spattered walls of Rapture.

Yep. That is a perfect picture of the game. Horror, blood, gore, violence. The creepy "splicers" will pop up out of no where and sometimes the only way to kill them is to bludgeon them to death with a crowbar. In addition to this disturbing aspect of the game, and even creepier one is the "little sisters" who roam the city, looting the dead and drinking their blood. These little girls are hosts to parasites and are creepy! killing at will and followed around by the even creepier "Big daddies" (picture above). If you mess with one of the sisters, you have to reckon with the Big Daddy. These hulking monsters would sooner drill you graphically into a wall than talk, so run the other way.

If I haven't repulsed you already by my descriptions of the savage, intense and bloody violence, surely the language will. There is a LOT of language for a video game. I have heard every possible word in the first two levels including derogatory slang for female body parts. At one point, a creepy old man tells me "You're f***ed", before slamming a door and forcing me to go and murder these screaming zombies.

I rest my case. Bioshock is a big shock. It is offensive, morally questionable and very bloody. Don't waste your time or money on this one.

Signing out, the Buckland Fiddler.