15th August 2007, 2:26 AM
And to be honest I don't really agree there. To hear this sort of thing PC gaming (or console gaming, or gaming in general, or some very specific genre) has been going "downhill" since the Pentium 1 came out. Well I've seen a lot of neat stuff recently, and if that's downhill, I'll meet you at the bottom.
Anyway, I played the Bioshock demo (now with glitch free mode) and I have to say it's pretty fun. Now, it didn't live up to that first trailer, but honestly I never expected it to. There's no "real time" cinematic style action as in that thing, and all in all it's actually a pretty standard FPS. In fact, all the action scenes are done the standard modern way, behind some window so you can't screw anything up in the scripted events. It's got those plasmids, and they are pretty neat, but it's nothing that hasn't been done before. Being able to store health pickups is nice, and it sort of plays like a survival horror that way with limited resources you take with you. Anyway, it's a fun FPS, but don't expect to actually fend off the big daddy in real time by getting your hand drilled to save your face, and don't expect to actually dash up to the little girl and yank her out of a tube. It's an FPS, and that's what you should expect. Fun one though. Went a little too obviously evil in the design of the creator of the underwater distopia I should say... Why would his STATUE scowl? Ironically I found myself agreeing with pretty much everything the "bad guy" says in the demo.
Anyway, I played the Bioshock demo (now with glitch free mode) and I have to say it's pretty fun. Now, it didn't live up to that first trailer, but honestly I never expected it to. There's no "real time" cinematic style action as in that thing, and all in all it's actually a pretty standard FPS. In fact, all the action scenes are done the standard modern way, behind some window so you can't screw anything up in the scripted events. It's got those plasmids, and they are pretty neat, but it's nothing that hasn't been done before. Being able to store health pickups is nice, and it sort of plays like a survival horror that way with limited resources you take with you. Anyway, it's a fun FPS, but don't expect to actually fend off the big daddy in real time by getting your hand drilled to save your face, and don't expect to actually dash up to the little girl and yank her out of a tube. It's an FPS, and that's what you should expect. Fun one though. Went a little too obviously evil in the design of the creator of the underwater distopia I should say... Why would his STATUE scowl? Ironically I found myself agreeing with pretty much everything the "bad guy" says in the demo.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)