Bioshock preview – PC

The wait is nearly over – hotly anticipated RPG/shooter Bioshock will be out in August. We’ve had a chance to get hands-on with the game this month, and you can read the results of our hours of gameplay in our huge Bioshock preview. Expectations of the game are high: a tense, terror-filled action RPG with superb visuals and an absorbing plot. Will it live up to all our hopes? Find out when you read our hands-on Bioshock preview for the PC.
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Bioshock preview – PC
Bioshock carries the weight of expectations on its shoulders, more than any other first-person game this year. STALKER aimed for the skies, but everyone suspected a disaster… meaning its final success was a pleasant surprise. Crysis is a technological marvel with some clever ideas, but that’s it. Bioshock… well, people aren’t just expecting Bioshock to be the most exciting RPG/shooter conceivable with a palpable aura of constant terror about it. They’re expecting it to be – whisper it – art. Irrational’s history in developing System Shock 2 gives them pedigree, but it’s only by getting hands on with it can we really judge what their chances are.
Guess what we’ve been up to?
Bioshock starts with you floating in an ocean laced with flame, the remains of your plane sinking. The only thing to do is to swim to a nearby lighthouse, enter a bathosphere and then descend to see if you can find someone to help you. Within minutes, you’re in ‘Rapture’, a city constructed decades ago by a genius tired of the parasitism of lesser men – governments, churches, communists – who wished to live in a place where the truly great were able to create a perfect society.

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