09-14-2007, 10:29 AM
Mike Wrote:awesome bioshock review: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock">http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... n-BioShock</a><!-- m -->
You know, I saw that on Tuesday and he's right...to a point.
System Shock 2 was good. It wasn't GREAT, and it certainly wasn't as good as System Shock. Sure, SHODAN is a straight-up scary bitch, and the game had good atmosphere but that's about all it had. Parts were scary, and yeah it was difficult, but the story *sucked* and the whole game really seemed like a half-ass effort at a System-Shock-esque game...not really SS.
But that's me hating on system shock 2, not bioshock. Yahtzee's all "Bioshock is SS2 with with a copy of Atlas Shrugged" but it's both more than that and less. The story's about a million times better, the gameplay is much, much easier, and the RPG elements he's "missing" in Bioshock weren't really all that relevant to SS2, either. I mean, hell, when I played SS2 I didn't go around trying to check my inventory, and I don't even think I used my psi-amp even once. Maybe I missed something in the gameplay by doing it that way but it just didn't really seem to thrill me. Bioshock is a good came and it's shockingly deep for a console game. Yeah, they borrowed heavily from Fallout but it's not like, you know, Fallout's doing anything with fallout, so hey, more power to them.
But it was really funny, so hey.
Also, I'm probably the only fucker in here who even played system shock 2, much less the original System Shock.
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