adamnp Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 --Excerpt from site-- BioShock is the "genetically enhanced" first person shooter that lets you do things never before possible in the genre: turn everything into a weapon, biologically mod your body with plasmids, hack devices and systems, upgrade your weapons and craft new ammo variants, and experiment with different battle techniques in an incredible and unique underwater city. You are a cast-away in Rapture, an underwater Utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces, and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, you have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. No encounter ever plays out the same, and no two gamers will play the game the same way. BioShock is loaded with some of greatest, most modifiable weapons to ever blast their way into a shooter. But guns alone won’t be enough to defeat the devious AIs of Rapture. There are literally hundreds of other strategies players can use to take out his enemies. Here’s just a few things you can do a foe: Catch his Grenades in Mid Air and Toss Them Back at Him Freeze Him Solid and Shatter Him with Smack of your Wrench Lead him and his comrades to water and Zap them all with 1000 Volts Burn Him Up With Home-Made Molotov Cocktails Booby Trap Healing Machines and Watch Them Blow up IN his Face Brainwash Him to Become Your Personal BodyGuard Invent your own Ammo Types to Prey on his Vulnerabilities Turn his own Security System Against Him Light Him on Fire and Launch Heat Seeking Missiles At him Torment Him with Plagues of Insects Take Research Photos of Him to Learn his Weaknesses Send Him Flying into the Ceiling to Knock him Senseless No encounter ever plays out the same way twice. No two gamers will ever play BioShock the same way. --end excerpt-- Anyone check out this demo? The fullrelease is slated to come out later on today via steam and is already on store shelves. The game is incredible. Just mind boggling how crazy the new games are getting, I remember sitting back playing Firefighter, and Lemonaide stand in 2 colors on a 300 Baud modem connected to my local Bulletin Board System. Or playing the lively Qbert on my monochrome IBM PC JR (First personal computer manufactured) From Sierra's hayday with the kingsquest and such games as scorched earth and the original Doom games, it just blows me away what these new games are like. I even find it difficult to play some of them, whereas the newer younger kids pick it up like its nothing. Haha, I always find time to make sure I still play games and enjoy what I do..I was just so blown away by this game, definately give the thumbs up for checking it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I was reading the reviews the other day, but haven't checked the game out yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbiloh Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Any pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swish Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Heres the HD Trailer....looks "intresting" to say the least. http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=984&cc=US And a few SS's http://www.2kgames.com/bioshock/html/screen.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Is it multiplayer? Or just single player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRAG Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 you know where we can get the files to create game servers with tca? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I think it is only a single player game. Maybe someone can clarify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnp Posted August 22, 2007 Author Share Posted August 22, 2007 It is currently a 1 player first person shooter There 'May' be plans for multiplayer soon to come. But I believe not at the moment. There was no plans for a demo either, and that happened. Right now after yesterday's release the forums are blowing up as I gues Take2 Interactive is only allowing "2 install" instances per copy of the game. Thats kind of odd. Never heard of that before, so as you can imagine what normally happens when the consumers don't know all the facts until after the purchase....There quite upset Still a great game though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 I would assume they are trying to defend against illegal/hacked versions of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnp Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 Yeah thats what 2k claimed, customers are pissed because....I'll just quote on of the posts in the forum.... "the people that steal the game can play forever install the game however many times they want, throw it out the window reburn it and install again. The people that guy it for XBOX 360 can use it for a lifetime, in any XBOX machine they so choose, but I go to work and buy my game and I can only install it twice? I'm a magazine editor during the day so I very frequently upgrade my computers, normally more than twice a year. What you are telling me is that every two times I upgrade I have to go buy your game again aswell? I made a similiar appeal to EA 2 years ago when they tried to pull the same nonsense..They didn't respond, they haven't gotten a penny of mine from that date forward. You cannot punish the law obiding legimate person because of the piracy, or you'll get more angry customers like myself." Seems like an odd stance to go for anti-piracy aswell, I feel the steam platform itself is a pretty decent deterrant... Anyone know what EA did 2 years ago that was similiar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monk Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 I bought bioshock, and I like it. Best game that's been out in awhile. The AI is very sneaky, and actually doesn't stand around and try to die like in some other games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studeggle Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Seems like an odd stance to go for anti-piracy aswell, I feel the steam platform itself is a pretty decent deterrant... Anyone know what EA did 2 years ago that was similiar? Actually, they are totally right and the steam platform is useless as an anti-piracy deterrent. It takes the crooks no more then a couple days to circumvent the protection. Microsoft tried similar with its Windows XP, all it did was result in people buying legit copies being told they couldn’t register because the copy was already used. When it was actually used by someone generating the same key with a key generator hack. These companies need to spend less time trying to lock the product and more in cutting costs. The only effective lock is to control the distribution of all licenses so when someone tries to register a new install, the company just checks to see if they’ve paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnp Posted August 30, 2007 Author Share Posted August 30, 2007 Well seems steam/Take two interactive bowed to the pressure of the consumer. Late last night a patch was released to remove the 'install/uninstall' issue with BioShock. Power of the people! Next stop, lets lower gas prices. Anyone? Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{-SMAKU-}_MotorMouth Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I seen the trailers on this and could not wait to play it. I downloaded the demo when I went to work. Good thing I didn't install it. I came home seen all of the reviews and I',m glad. I don't care how they try to spin it. It has a root kit it installs, even the demo has it. If it looks like a duck quacks like a duck it's a dang duck. Now it has a total of 5 installs, that's it and you need to call Sony "SecuROM" with a picture of the disc and product key. If you change mobos, CPU's or HDD it will count as an install. Looks like Sony would have learned about rootkits after the last messed they caused. Good reading on the DRM issues with the game. Video part 1 Part 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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