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Bioshock (Xbox 360)

from: Take 2 Interactive

August 24, 2007
Beautiful graphics, wonderfully atmospheric setting, but you can't avoid the fact that the gameplay is extremely weak. Once the novelty of the setting and the idea of genetic upgrades wear off, you're left with a game that although using the Unreal engine, doesn't really make very good use of it, and underneath all the decoration, is some fairl weak first-person-shooter combat.
Exploring is easy, just follow an on-screen arrow to where you need to go, you'll rarely be lost.
But combat is what keeps a first person shooter playable in the long term and here it's the worst aspect of the game - you know when a game gets combat right, such as Gears Of War or Half Life 2 - the weapons have the right feeling of weight to them as they ... Read More: