BIOShock PC: Initial Impressions
I plunked down the $49 to buy BioShock on Steam, and except for some transient errors and logging in and out to refresh the state of my purchase, everything went as expected. If you’re thinking of buying this game, check out the requirements first:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo processor; System RAM: 2GB; Video Card: DX 9 – Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better), DX 10 – NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better
My E6600 dual core with an ATI 1900 XT is barely good enough for decent frame rates at moderate quality settings, but it’s good enough to play with:
The plot is the best since Halo–you’re in the 1940s and have fallen into the ocean near a remote island. Surviving the crash, you make your way to the island and descend into Rapture, a society hidden beneath the earth. In Rapture, the inhabitants decided to experiment with DNA modification, giving them the power of gods. Unfortunately, it also twisted them into a hateful, violent society now decaying. The art deco is quite amazing:
As you go through the game, you try to acquire different plasmids to modify your DNA and gain new powers:
Another thing I like is the items in the game glow, so you know what to pick up and do. It’s very user friendly 
And here is the first look at one of the “Big Daddies”:
The release and 97% aggregate review shot the stock up about 10% today. Go Take2! Post your reactions to BioShock here, guys.
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Best plot since Halo?….er, thank god for dumb Xbox fps fans to help the sales of this game. Maybe they can make a new System Shock now.
Doesn’t it say 1960 when you start? Not 1940s.
After running through the PC demo a week after checking out the 360 demo, I’ve got to agree that for PC, it just feels like a sloppy port. I read a blurb from Take 2 not long ago mentioning that they had two totally different teams doing both UI’s… but to me you’d have no idea.
Just makes you wonder how much different this game would be had it been developed for PC only.
Its a sloppy port to PC. Some keys cannot be rebound, rendering the game unplayable for me (a lefty).
For petes sake map all of the letters of the alphabet at least.
The Quake Wars beta even looks better, and its a beta…