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  • Best twist in gaming. Ever.

  • if you are just getting this game make sure you download the ad on content before you play. this allows you to turn off vita chambers in the options menu. if you are a hardcore gamer like myself you will quickly understand why i think vita chambers ruin the game. they just feel like cheating to me and took all the fun out of the game. but luckily you can just turn them off now.

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  • amazing game

  • bought today!!

    

  • Holy crap people still watch the review of this game it's old thats all great game tho Gunna buy it soon

  • That is one weird looking mootherfucker

  • Perfect game!! 10/10!!!!

  • I miss this game, the second one ddnt even do it justice,

  • Would u kindly remove the arrow I took to the knee

  • I would never descirbe BioShock as "pretty." He's right that it's eyecandy, but the more appropriate term would be "gritty."

  • This is one the most non-linear linear games. I have to agree the weapons sometimes aren't very satisfying.

  • Is the shotgun you favorite freaking weapon? This review has all the wrong footage...

  • the game reviewer guy face isnt even lol

  • What about that little GAME BREAKING bug where you can't get a crucial item in order to move forward? What about the fact that it has been years since the game came out and still the company did not release a patch or even acknowledged that this bug exists and happened to some players?

    This game is amazing and more, but stuff like that makes me so angry it ruins everything 

  • This guy is clearly not giving this freaking awesome masterpiece of a video game enough credit!!!

  • DAMN SPLOICERS!

  • The first thing you should do when playing a Bioshock game is turn off the questing arrow. It's much, much better without it.

  • That is an awesome video for that game! BioShock ! Anyone here Xbox fans? I bet most of you are. I'm getting my copy of Xbox for free at: XBOX-FOR-FREE.IN

  • I didn't really want a summary of the story. I wanted a review :\

  • the splicers are tougher so the game isnt easy....

  • no you get there in 1950 mate

  • @TheMrkaratekid2000

    No you get there in January, 1960. They finished building the city in 1940 and the Rapture Civil War started in 1959.

  • @whiteganser Yeah... I guess I found a good deal. I've always looked at oblivion let's plays but I had never played it. When I went to buy it, it was out of stock everywhere! I found this bundle with bioshock in a shop... And bought it for 20 bucks :) Getting into oblivion is being a bit hard, but still an awesome game. I'll start playing Bioshock soon too.

  • Just bought this in a bundle with Oblivion

  • @chase362 Shit. What I would do to forget I ever played this game, just to experience my first time AGAIN. And Oblivion? Damn, I've played the shit out of both of those... you're lucky man. You've got hours of entertainment ahead of you.

  • Good game,but boring review

  • @mohamud60

    Yeah this was a terrible review. I don't have time to list how many things he screwed up, but for starters you can disable the compass and just not use hints if you want to explore, that's how I've been playing it. Saying otherwise was flat out wrong and just really bad reviewing.

    And why did you keep going back to Jeff's face? We wanna see gameplay footage, not that.... person? He's ugly as sin, that's for sure. I don't see why you focus on him when you have a beautiful game.

  • anybody remember Would You Kindly???

    "The best quote in recent video game history"

  • @MrChickenstalker You just ruined the entire story.

  • Boring game and its just my opinion :)

  • you gotta put the two together. throw some lightning at a guy then hit him with a wrench. my favorite is to freeze them then shatter them with the shotgun. this is one of my favorite games of all time.

  • JEFF SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN FIRED. FUCK YOU GAMESPOT

  • O the ugly, it burns.

  • Bioshock... Yeah, that pretty much described the effect this game had on the world's video game community.

  • Should I get this? I think it looks fantastic and the story looks like one of a movie... any suggestions?

  • @brokrishnan well its the weirdest game out there but if your looking for horror not weird get left 4 dead

  • @brokrishnan You should get it then have sex with it. I have never met someone who did not like this game.

  • The splicers faces are the most demented faces in gaming, even more so than dead spaces necromorphs! :D

  • This game Bioshocked me

  • i got the second one

  • i dont get it, if splicers use adam how come they dont have any plasmid abilitys except for houdini and i think the spiders

  • @insertnamehere001 used them on tonics

  • @insertnamehere001

    You see some normal Splicers with electro bolt later down the line if you noticed.

  • @insertnamehere001 they probably have tonics, tonics require adam too.

  • this prick is criticizing the combat in bioshock, that the weapons are not very effective, but if you look closely at the video, anyone who's played bioshock knows that this fatso's problem is the CAMERA

  • @pulpfictional90 This guy is a master of videogames... and what the hell are you talking about...

  • @whiteganser im talking about a little device that you can use to take pictures, its called a camera, ever heard of it? in bioshock it can be used to enhance your combat skills, thus making the splicers more easy to fight. But you have to work your way up. Ive played bioshock 1 in hard mode and the splicers get stronger and stronger towards the end of the game, but because I used the camera (jus like anyone who's played the game thoroughly) the fights are really well balanced.

  • @pulpfictional90 I've beaten Bioshock six times, three times on hard. I think I know about the damn research camera... and I've fully researched every enemy in the game. He's only wondering why certain enemies towards the end of the game get so much harder. It doesn't give you a reason, but instead they simply get more resistant to your gunfire/plasmids. Trust me, if any guy knows about how to play a game right, it's this guy. I think he knows about the camera. Don't think for a second Im a noob

  • @whiteganser will do. dont go worshipin him too much though. he's makin easy money doin something you'd certainly do for free xD

  • @pulpfictional90 He got fired three years ago for giving their sponsor: Kane and Lynch, a bad review. Now he runs his own website...

  • @whiteganser i prefer the ign review on bioshock... yeah, I heard that he got fired only a few days ago, I gotta admit I did not know him before. Kane and Lynch is pretty bad... I love Eidos though

  • @whiteganser ok.... Ive jus finished watching his review on kane and lynch, and he's kinda overreacting. I think he went a bit to far, it even gets a bit PERSONAL

  • @whiteganser thats one of the reasons why bioshock is a goddamn masterpiece.

  • @pulpfictional90 You're an idiot, friend.

  • @MisterAlexUk oh, thank you very much. You're pretty idiotic yourself, by the way

  • i have bioshock 1 on pc and bioshock 2 on xbox 360.................and they're fuking amazing!!!

  • Bioshock is fuckin amazing

  • Just ordered it : )

  • Problem is the achievements make you wanna save all the girls. So rather than moral choice it was like... 100 points is pretty good..

  • @csl316 haha yeah so true

  • Is this game the same on all of the platforms?. I know it probably is but I have a PS3 and noticed that the box that the game comes in is different. Could you please let me know about any differences?. Thanks:).

  • @Olster6991 Basically the only difference is that the PS3 version has exclusive DLC, updated graphics, and a whole new difficulty that's harder then anything else. I went PS3 but it really isn't that much of a game changer either way.

  • Its not scary....just the most intense first person shooter in a under water city ridden with drug addicted mutants and surreal girls with metal hulks as their companions for safety ever released. Nothing can match BioShock.

  • this game is actual art 

  • this game is the most intense first person shooter released to date. buy it, now!

  • @VerZiaGFx and its 5 bux on steam for halloween

  • @VerZiaGFx Definitely one of the best

  • THIS GAME IS A MASTERPIECE

  • no the splicers are stronger in the later stages nitro splicers have more health. you can use tonics and other mmodifications to improve the weapon damage each splicer has a big weakness he probably didn't realize that

  • this review is so ugly

  • if there was something that could alter my dna so i could shoot out lightning i would use it lol. BUT only if it was save to use

  • watch?v=oBJUJXOxztE

  • First time i played this Game i got the Bad ending, the Second time i got the Good.

  • The final boss is a joke. Eletric gel just Destroys him,

  • Thumbs up for Jeff Gerstman.

  • I wish the Gore Verbinski pays proper tribute to the awesome storyline when he produces the movie.

  • 3:52 aiming fail.

  • Everyone says big daddy's are the strongest enemy and actually that's false Frank Fontaine is the strongest enemy in the game.

  • which one should i get first ??

    bioshock or infamous or fallout 3 ???? :S

  • @thefoloman bioshock, i have fallout and it sucks infamous is ok

  • @thefoloman fuck infamous the competition is fallout and bioshock

    for story bioshock all the way, for replay value and game world fallout 3, its hard to decide for me :P jizz get them both.

  • @lukethedukea380

    already played them all... i wrote that for 2 months ago you know xD

  • @lukethedukea380 bioshock and fallout are completely different games. youre comparing an RPG and a FPS. both are good games but you cant make two games compete that arent even in the same genre.

  • u can turn the arows off

  • system shock 2

  • @TheCheeesyOne

    SS2 FTW

  • ive moved onto gamespot reviews ign just doesnt go into depth maybe the written reviews sure but i dont bother with them all ign reviews are what maybe 3 mins long sometimes 5 and i wouldnt eaxactly call them reviews more like previews

  • @TheCheeesyOne ign is way better than gamespot...

  • @lulumanmanhihi i strongly disagre as you know, but i dont much care for arguments we are all entitled to opinion :)

  • @TheCheeesyOne lol, i dont even remember typing that or even watching this video. Haha, but yeah. I don't really like ign very much either, but ign just seems more...honest than the new gamespot reviews. classic gamespot used to be good but the new reviewers kinda.....suck? :)

  • @lulumanmanhihi yah thats true there are some decent new reviews but all gamespot reviewrs have these real boring voices (GTA IV gamespot review super terrible)

  • @lulumanmanhihi Both are flawed greatly in there reviews. Although i find ign more biased and bought off bother are filled with those things.

  • This is one of "THE" worst reviews I have ever seen. He touches nothing upon the game's graphics, or it's music. All this guy is doing is ranting on about the mechanics of gameplay, and small plot details.

  • Bioshock is a dumbed down laughably easy rehash of system shock 2

  • @imbadatnames390 The story is insanely good but the gameplay is dumbed down for gamers nowadays.

  • BEST GAME EVAR, PERIOD!!!!!

  • this game make me not want to live under water and dead space wants me to not live in space

  • To the reviewer: There is NOTHING wrong with the combat system in this groundbreaking and awesome game! there are numerous ways to kill an enemy. As far as weapon damage goes, you can take pictures with the camera for damage research, or use weapon upgrade stations, or choose the right ammo in order to take down tougher enemies.

    As for the rest of the review: It doesn't seem like you have really PLAYED Bioshock!

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  • wow a good gamespot review

  • Jeff was the best reviewer gamespot! now the only guy they got that I like is Kevin

  • Did anyone notice some techincal hitches during the review?

  • OH MY GOD I held off this game for so long... But I finally got the demo and HOLY CRAP it is quite hard (well, challenging - in a good way) and SOOOOOOO cool! Big Daddies are fucking creepy though... I'm like EEEEEEEEEEEEEE every time I see one lol... I'm so glad I finally played it, I'm gonna get this and the second one as well

  • @Alekh12345

    BioShock is a game that focuses on anti-communism, greed, revenge, and politics, and emotionally grips you from beginning to end.

    I'm 13...

  • What is the name of the song that starts playing exactly at 4:00 ?

  • or BEES!

  • @Zombie4Alex they are,unless you get near the little sister or attack them

  • i am kinda a loser cuz i never even bought this game till a week ago and boy am i glad i did although he was right about towards the end the Splicers can take a hell of alot a damage like i was getting frustrated at things i was taking out with a wrench early on so yeah it really makes you want to go Kratos on there ass but the story is really what got me into it in the End there is a cutscene that i cant talk about but if you harvest all the little girls you are gonna feal like shit

  • @NewWorldSaint dont i know it,normaly i show no mercy,but killing little girls just to gain power,the first made me sick to my stoumach,2nd made me sick and cover my eye saying WTF is wrong with the makers

  • Good review. Decided to steal my brothers copy based off of this. =3

  • bioshock is a fucked up game(in a good way) with all the girls and those wondering things with creepy background music :D

  • and of course the fact that you're UNDER WATER

  • @D4rthV4d3r34 where else can you escape government and religion? :D

  • @D4rthV4d3r34 hey doe you now once you beait ti could you start out whith all your weponse to upgrade them srry for bad english

  • @D4rthV4d3r34 can i play bioshock in a 46inch sony bravia with good graphics?

  • One of the best games i've ever played and i i'm only 6 hours in. Trully, trully magnificent. Every bit of it. The wierd thing is looking at the reviews i knew it was good but it didn't seem like my type of game. Then i stole it from walmart (lol) and from the moment i cut it on i loved the graphics,presentation, and story. Rapture has a creepy dreadfull feeling that is contrasted by the left over beauty of what it once was. This game is perfection and i give it a 100/10.

  • u stole it

  • u stole it. wow. its like 10 fuckin bucks anywayz. wow.

  • >> Oh you thieves... you coulda just bought it for about $20. Better than stealing the damn thing. Lol.

  • @SephirothCrescent0ne Shame on you. Buy it! The developers deserve every penny and then some.

  • best way to take out a big daddy is cross bow or electric buck on shot gun

  • if you already beat the game how do you start with your weapons fro he beginnig so you can upgrade thm al the way

  • baught the exclusive edition yesterday for 19.99.

    best game value i baught yet

  • me too i just finished it

  • This guy was pretty much spot on. GameTrailers just blindly praised as one of the best games ever, while I personally thought that the weak combat pretty much broke the game for me. The weapons were tedious with the different ammotypes and trying to remember what ammotype caused the most damage to which enemy was also a bitch.. Overall, the game is great, but I'm hoping for huge improvements in BioShock 2.

  • @YouthEnergy  Yea I was pretty unhappy about the first couple of weapons, until I got a shotgun :)

  • The music (a close 1% with the voice acting) for me. was the most perfect thing in the game. The violin just topped off the twisted mood in rapture. It brought suspense when needed and really immersed you in game.

  • an enhanced version of electo bolt 1

  • wats electro bolt 2?

  • Did anyone else have a fucking add before this video??? Man is that how youtube is going to be?

  • @dawnofdoom999 Not sure if your still having your problem but ill comment anyway. If you don't like the ads get ADBLOCK PLUS it's a really cool firefox addon that will kill all the adds. Dont mean to sound like spam but this program has really helped me.

  • best review of bioshock IMO. I agreed with everything this guy said, except he should have mentioned no multiplayer (even though u should know that)

  • whats wrong wth u guys but no offense have you gotten 10% through the game cmon you use gene banks to swap you use gatherers gardens to buy stuff they have big heads on them

  • Hey everyone this is a truely AWESOME game, check out my channel cos i have the review of this game!!!!

    =))

  • I can't wait to get this game!!!

  • why not getting Bioshock 2?

  • right i have just found a new power where u can catch things in ur hand and u can only have two right? well i swapped it for the electro thing and i want it back so how do i swap the powers round??

  • DragKiingX2000: you can buy new powers at a gatherer's garden, and you can swap them as you want at a gene bank. they are two different machines. cheerz!

  • where can i find these gatherers garden machines? what do they look like?? please!!

  • check the manual

  • people are trying to figure out what made this game so great. i know why. EVERYTHING made this game great! the graphics, the environment, the story, voice acting, plasmids, characters, but most of all. because it was a game that was different. this game is the single best game i have ever played because they make the whole experience so interesting and fun, you dont want to stop. 88 out of 10. its worth every penny.

  • Yes well 2 years isnt exactly the lonest fuckiing time ever. And its idiots like you who make the internet seem a chore. And it seems to me like you are either ignorant or just fucking stupid.

  • @darkbro32 WTF? 12 to 14 is a huge difference, it's not like 32-34.

  • Well how old are you then?

  • Wow please dont't say that. Most 12 year olds arnt fucking stupid. And i was 12 when this came out and i got it all. So dont make a stupid statement like that OK.

  • all men so true darkbro32

  • The one thing that pissed me off about this game is that when I got the tapes and I wanted to listen to discover more about the story I couldnt concentrate on what the tape was saying because I was constantly being attacked or spotted by security :(

  • Do what I do. Hide in vents. The splicers can't get you there!

  • I'm still trying to find out what made the story so great. Its so perfect and interesting that I'm lost for words. The game's story combines the f*cked up nature of A Brave New World and some of the big city feel of that 1920s movie Metropolis. Thats just a summary...

  • i can sum up whats most awesome in bioshock for me in one word: IMMERSION. when i was playing through i wasnt thinking "i want to beat the game" i was wanting to run around rapture.

  • yea its the tottal feeling if playing it the sound music ect its like playing in a film than a game you forget you are playing a game at all

  • great game

  • the easy was more like a normal in a game except for the big daddies once they come the only thing that really works is either the shotgun or the grenade launcher

  • The wrench needed a nerf. Scary how good it was.

  • I saw this game at a game stop near my house for $19.99 so I thought it would be kind of a shitty game but after watching this review I think i'll give it a play

  • This game is awesome... Go buy it now.

  • Keep in mind this game was released in 2007 so its not recent enough to charge alot becuase everyone that knew the game was coming and wanted it rlly badly got it in the first few months of the release. Just cus u see a game for less than $40 dosnt mean it sucks.

  • i dont feel like this review did the game justice of how great is actually is, i mean, didnt it win game of the year and get a 10?

  • @Reap3r1290 and in game informer, they did a top 200 games ever, and this was ranked pretty high.

  • I think the worst part was the vita-chambers

  • you can turn them off. besides, if your smart you wont even need them

  • imao "junkies in need of a fix"

  • he didnt mention the weapon upgrades

  • When I first played this game, I was freaked out of my mind.

  • me too. it's just so deep. COHENPOWER FTW  :P

  • same here, I'm still freaked of the game.

  • good review.

  • "pretty first person shooter"...interesting opinion

  • great point!

  • actually, when they first were developing the game, they said they wanted to make a game that was the "spiritual successor" of system shock 2. so in other words, they made this game and that game similar on purpose.