Gallifrey
Keeper Of Traken
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I know there have been a ton of Bioshock threads, but I didn't want to resurrect something from August nor did I want to inadvertently read spoilers, so I made a new thread.
This past weekend I did a small upgrade to my aging PC (new graphics card, more memory) and played the Bioshock demo because I could.
It wasn't too bad, I rather enjoyed it and so the demo pretty much had me sold. Then the demo ends and there's a long trailer for the game, showing tons and tons of fancy combat and, well, that un-sold me. What I thought might be a highly atmospheric mystery/survival/exploration game was shown as a combat-heavy slogging (albeit with many snazzy plasmid-using maneuvers) and I was seriously dead bored by the time the trailer ended.
So I'm wondering, how is the game really? Is it very combat heavy (were the trailer selections there to sell the game to FPS addicts), or does it have a better pace, more like System Shock 2? And how long is it? I tend to lose interest in shooters after about 15-20 hours of gameplay.
I loved the imagery of the game, that whole 50's/steampunk collision really worked for me. Having to scrounge for ammo was nice, and selectively tackling opponents (what weapon or plasmid to use, or just avoid them, etc) adds to the game. But the trailer just showed flat-out combat assaults made head-on, so I'm wary.
This past weekend I did a small upgrade to my aging PC (new graphics card, more memory) and played the Bioshock demo because I could.
It wasn't too bad, I rather enjoyed it and so the demo pretty much had me sold. Then the demo ends and there's a long trailer for the game, showing tons and tons of fancy combat and, well, that un-sold me. What I thought might be a highly atmospheric mystery/survival/exploration game was shown as a combat-heavy slogging (albeit with many snazzy plasmid-using maneuvers) and I was seriously dead bored by the time the trailer ended.
So I'm wondering, how is the game really? Is it very combat heavy (were the trailer selections there to sell the game to FPS addicts), or does it have a better pace, more like System Shock 2? And how long is it? I tend to lose interest in shooters after about 15-20 hours of gameplay.
I loved the imagery of the game, that whole 50's/steampunk collision really worked for me. Having to scrounge for ammo was nice, and selectively tackling opponents (what weapon or plasmid to use, or just avoid them, etc) adds to the game. But the trailer just showed flat-out combat assaults made head-on, so I'm wary.
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