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good game – like it.

well – i finished it. Great story, thought the last two levels lacked some of the same strength of story but very cool. Not sure what the game would be like if you killed all the little girls but as a saviour I found the end very satisfying. I completed it once having let one of the girls die so went back and made sure they all lived – it did change the ending if you’re interested (not trying to give too much away .. )

great game – good story. erm. all finished. NEXT?

Probably ought to finish zelda and resident evil on the wii ;o)

Bioshock – Its a first person shooter game on PC and Xbox 360.

Its set in an underwater city called rapture and set in the 1950s. The city is now populated by genetically modified residents driven mad by the process – the story of which is told to you in diary’s and communications from the remaining residents.

One of the key characters are the little girls who wonder around, who you get the choice of rescuing or ‘harvesting’. I’m rescuing them, my mate Andy’s killing them. I just got to a the big twist in the story and the line I’ve taken totally depends on you rescuing most of the girls. Really curious to see how the story goes when you harvest.

Possible spoilers!

I think the Adam (the stuff that makes the genetic modification possible) in-take is about the same by the way, every three or so girls you get a gift from Tenenbaum (a character in the game, very interesting back story) of about 200 Adam and 80 Adam per girl, not sure how much u get from harvesting. Andy may enlighten me.

Oh, I’ve gone heavy wrench usage (lurker for stealth and heavy hits on incapacitated targets, extra damage with a wrench, armordillo, chameleon which hides you if you stand still and the static shock thingie) and big on the electric shock for incapacitating targets. Didn’t bother with winter’s might though andy was saying he uses that alot to freeze targets (handy for slowing bouncers down).

It’s got a great story, listen to all the radio and diary entries. each area’s quite different, the ghosts add to the stories and the key characters in each place have quite deep back stories. Oh, and telekenesis is huge fun though I have blown my self up throwing gas canisters around in rooms full of fuel barrels – looked pretty tho.

Occasionally I buy a game. Lately I’ve been playing bioshock in my spare minutes but still have company of heroes, zelda, mercury and a number of other games to play that I’ve bought. If I were to pile games I have on my ‘not finished’ yet list there’d be a real risk of a very heavy pile falling my way.

I like games, enjoy playing them and view them as a piece of entertainment akin to a movie telling a story that you interact with. Guess I’ll finish them at retirement or need to slow down purchases.

Bioshock is looking to be a nice game by the way. I started out on hard, gone to medium and have to say I’m not good at the game – but it is fun. good style and story to it. As I say – an interactive story telling style of entertainment.

Oh, and sometimes still fancy a potter around in WOW although the days of hours spent raiding seem far behind me.