HOLYYYY SHIIIIIIT ... THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER!!!! OMG OMG OMG .... Please forgive the excitement but OMFG!!!played the demo with lights out and it scared the SHIT out of me ... Brilliant atmosphere, gorgeus freaky graphics, amazing effects ... Brilliant all around!!!! this is must buy for everyone and it's coming from a JRPG fan. Every Gamersyder needs to buy this (that includes you jollipop ;)) I am so glad I tried the demo.

Oh wait one more thing OMFG!! The game rocks! :D

So what you're saying is it sucks? Oh come on now.
Everyone here likes the game and you have to come in bashing it!

You sir, are no gamer! :p

When that damn splicer or whatever was trying to get into that pod I was in my cousin suggested I look to the right cause he thinks it broke in man I was so friggin scared.

What are we going to do when videogame AI gets too good? We'll have the crap scared out of us. What if when coming out of that pod there was a splicer directly on top of it that would jump out at you?

Damn it the game is totally against the kind of games I like to play, but I may end up being forced to buy this :/ I really want to find out how it all ends.

Damn it!!!Just got my 3 red lights!! this is the 2nd time... Good thing it's before Halo 3 , but damn I'm going to miss the Bioshock release...

This game deserves to sell well over 2 million on the 360. It will be a damn shame if it doesn't.

Forget that it deserves Gears numbers.

This game is so full of little details too. Like the part where the tail of the plane crashed through that tube your walking through, and it starts to fill with water, there are fish that are flapping up on the stairs leading to the next area. I love stuff like that.

FREE Bioshock Artbook available in online edition
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/13/free-bioshock-ar...

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/artbook.html

WARNING... I read on another site, to not read the text or forward, because of spoilers.

Elizabeth Tobey, the official site manager for Bioshock, always wanted to include an art book in the limited edition of the title but they just couldn't manage it. Probably because of the whopping Big Daddy figure taking up all the space, eh? So they're doing the next best thing by offering it up online and for free.

Available in both low and high resolution packages, Bioshock: Breaking the Mold weighs in with over sixty pages of the most beautiful PDF files you may ever see. One warning for would-be downloaders: skip the foreword. Apparently, it contains spoilers direct from Ken Levine himself.

For those still downloading the demo, we suggest snagging this first, creating a flip book and taking a bath with it. It'll feel just like Rapture!

I just looked through it, its got some spoilerish art with regards to the enemies you may face. Its ok, ive seen better artbooks. The art direction is awesome, but the art itself is ok.

Damn I just played through the demo and it really is something else.

Having played System Shock II, I'm just happy to see so many similarities. The "checkpoints" where you revive, etc etc.

The audio is incredible, the graphics are amazing, the gameplay is unlike anything else, and the story seems to be awesome as well. What else can I ask for?

Buying this one for sure :D

Damn it!! it just finished downloading this morning, now i have to wait till i get home to try it out :(.

Ahah, it happened exactly the same to me! I played it through second time, just to experince the ambience once again, lights out, girlfriend sleeping, but then realized i missed a lots of things!! Like exactly the hacking minigames, and also one or two areas and some enemies!

Oh, another thing i loved (this comes back to the Fable 2 thread and Mollineux's new concept of dying) was how you die, how this feels "in the world". I mean, like usually you die in and you "go back in time" so to speak, you are allowed to retry, the same places and same creatures. Here, you are revived, but you don't have to kill all the same creatures again that you already killed before you died, the world continues while you are being revived.Maybe not exactly new, but petty cool, doesn't feel so fake in a sense. Another thumbs up!

Probably hard to put into words, but I'm usually a guy that likes something very anime in nature (Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey) or things that could be seen as cool or extremely interesting in the modern, our generation sense (Mass Effect, Halo) and if its at all old fashioned I'd like it to either involve feudal japan/china greek mythology/norse mythology or old fashioned as its done in Assassin's Creed or Metal Gear Solid 3/Chuck Norris missing in action style that I feel is more to my taste. Or something old fashioned in the Gladiator sense.

I look at Bioshock and I know it looks brilliant, but it sorta reminds me of an old russia/new york/germany type atmosphere thing and its represented even in the clothes the characters wear. The game takes place in 1961 right? Well Bioshock as it is now is probably something I'd gladly watch a movie of, but it isn't the kind of world I ever look forward to getting involved with in a videogame. Its like honeymooners, i love lucy, gotham city with no batman but in a very twisted yet impressive manner.

Pretty much think of it in the sense of the types of movies a person would like to watch. Some may be a fan of an old russian crime or mystery drama while others may prefer something that seems more modern or more fantasy. If its inspired by old days it has to be a certain type of old to catch my interest.

A good example of this would be Oblivion thats in no way my type of game. Its usually the type of thing I'd pass on, but I ended up caving and purchasing it and I did enjoy it quite a bit and downright loved it at times, but I hit a point where i just lost interest. From what I played of Bioshock I don't see that happening with Bioshock, but its still not exactly to my taste it would be a major departure for me. The best way I can probably describe it is that it has a lot to do with the setting and time period. First glance at something like Gladiator or Assassin's Creed I think whoa cool, awesome. I look at Bioshock I think very impressive, looks very atmospheric, well imagined but not my thing.

With all that said I may once again go against my policy like I did with Oblivion and get a game that I know going in isn't something that I normally go nuts for, but I am very interested in how it all ends up. I was very interested in how things end up for Oblivion too, but the way that was presented to me I lost interest easy and stopped caring after awhile. From what I saw of bioshock so far it appears as if it might be able to more than hold my interest. Like I said hard to really put into words, but bioshock does kick ass :)

The scene when I first went down to rapture and I saw the beautiful scene I had second thoughts right then thinking... impressive, but I don't know if it can hold my interest. Then when I finally got in and saw my frist splicer murder someone I again thought.. "I don't like stuff like this might just turn it off now and not bother trying to play" Its weird. Or maybe its cause I'm scared down in that place? haha not sure. I was scared shitless in every oblivion dungeon =P I was way too scared to play through doom 3 started and just had to stop cause it was getting too creepy for my taste. Maybe I'm just a big scaredy cat and thats why these games put me off. If I were really in one of these places I wouldn't be walking around at all I'd actually find myself a nice place I thought was safe and just stay there permanently.

I agree about Oblivion, i liked some parts and hated others then just go bored of it and have not played it since, i must admit that Bioshock looks to be very creepy and not the type of game i play either, but i guess sometimes you just have to make that exception, and i think for this one i will.

I just got my 3 red lights for the 2nd time today! And I just got my xbox back last week! Damnit! And this is right after I played Bioshock, turned my 360 off, then tried to turn it back on!

Just watched 10mins of blims demo on the main page and had to pull myself away as i dont want to spoil to much of it as i'm playing it tonight, but damn it looked fantastic, can only imagine how its gonna look in HD :)

it's easy to agree with your opinion, it does come down to a matter of taste. it's good to see that games are coming to a point where they can so strongly invoke imaginary worlds, create them so vividly, that one depending on personal taste puts them aside, or loves them. Its not just entertainment anymore, they start appealing to more deeper personal feelings, like our own personal imaginaries.

For me on the other side this is precisely my cup of tea, bioshock i mean. This retro-futurist i would call it. i love the sci.fi classics, and this seems to have it all, 1984 but with the mood i imagined it (as opposed to, for example, HALO, which i find and this is my opinion, a bit insipid in terms or art direction and settings).
I got a very similar feeling with the MYST (only played IV, but specially V), you know a bit sci fi, a bit retro. It gives it an aura of detachment from a real timeline and real space.

But there you go, in the end it's just a matter of personal taste, to each it's own.

Exactly I think there was a time where people played a game just because it was an awesome game, but its hit a point where things can be so well done that someone can choose not to play the game not because it isn't good, but because of the look and feel of the setting.

You are right delgado I may also just end up making an exception for this one as well who knows.

Well I got a check for tax refund of 4000 today, so I am gonna pre-order BioShock CE only for the soduntrack (as a OST nut as I am), and then buy HS next month and then Lair.

If Lair wasen't good I have always 90 days to return it back and get my money back :D.
Besides I have 550 value in coupons so I won't be broke, the rest of the money is going to pay off the Ps3.

Non the less...BioShock is AWESOME, and I love Rapture, and the whole atmosphere is great, because some part of me has always loved the good old art deco 50-60's, so it's gonna be awesome.