It's the big Metroid Prime wannabe that could... Could AND would go under the ocean...

So maybe calling this game a "Metroid: Prime wannabe" is a little harsh, but it has a lot of things in common WITH the GameCube game. For starters, this isn't a straight forward FPS game where you kill everything in sight but more of a hybrid of a shooter and an adventure game as you're exploring these huge levels, looking for powerups and secrets, solving puzzles, much like an old point and click adventure game or an action adventure hybrid like Zelda or Resident Evil... Oooooooh, Resident Zelda... That'd be epic...

"You're a weak chopper!"
-Thuggish Splicer

"Dude... I've fought Tyrants, Lickers, Hunters, Nemesis, Hell Knights, Cyberdemons, Regenerators, Aliens, Predators, the Bloodborne Beasts, Sweet Tooth, the mutants of Wolfenstein 3D AND the Angel of Death in Spear of Destiny... Compared to all those guys... You ain't NOTHING special."
-Mad Wolf

This game actually takes a lot of elements from other games I enjoy. Much like Resident Evil, there's parts of this story that really interests me and it makes me wanna keep playing to unravel the mysteries of BioShock. The game even has collectible audio files like Doom 3 that shine light on what happened to this place, get a little creepy with character backgrounds, it's a great feature. However, it's also like Silent Hill in which I believe the enemies don't have a whole lot going on for them and make me yawn... Not scream in terror but yawn. I mean, the player is at the bottom of the ocean, you would imagine maybe fighting some interesting sentient sealife or something but no, you're mostly fighting people who gone crazy and had plastic surgery gone wrong.... But it doesn't even look like plastic surgery gone wrong, just looks like the developers got lazy with crafting the 3d models so they left out noses or had picasso droopy faces... There's a LOT of creepiness you can do with plastic surgery (just look at all the different ways The Joker looks) but this game really didn't capitalize on that and I feel it's a shame. Probably the most terrifying enemy in the game (And I think only one at that) is the Big Daddy who you can see on the game cover, when I see them I KNOW I'm gonna use up my shotgun shells and I'm probably going to die.

"I REALLY do not want a drill up the ass..."
-Mad Wolf

Story goes a little like this: You're on a plane, plane crashes in the middle of the ocean, there's a building nearby with a bathysphere inside that takes you where the fish don't stink only to find a metropolis beneath the waves... But like 95% of the people are these crazy splicer people and the town's founder, Andrew Ryan, believes you MUST be with eitther the CIA or the KGB and doesn't want you to live. You find out about some unmoral genetic experiments going on called Plasmids which basically give you superpowers that you need juice called Eve to use. They also get into Adam which apparently the little gatherer creatures that look like girls and the Big Daddies protect, yeah the little girls harvest Adam so you have to fight the Big Daddies to get Adam but I DON'T REALLY KNOIW WHAT IT IS EXACTLY! They claim it's the clay to redesign genetic codes and I need it but do I? Do I really? God, I don't remember Samus having to get this crap and she was on entire hostile planets!

So BioShock... It's good, it's fun, it's interesting... But I do feel it's missing a lot to truly be a masterpiece. It really sets up for a mysterious setting but it just drags on and I feel it's not nearly as epic as other horror games that were coming out around this time. But much like Resident Evil, it sets up for a sequel and in BioShock 2.... Yeah, the Splicers look way more monstrous. But we're talking about BioShock and I may not give it the credit that's it's worth but I just feel this game is average and gets 3 out of 5 psycho underwater people.

Oh... And I really hate the Circus of Values vending machines... I wanna beat the crap outta those machines just to shut them up...