Bioshock Remastered Review

Bioshock is a first-person shooter made in 2007 by 2K in Boston and Australia. It was also published by 2K.

It is a game about an underwater world called Rapture. Based in the 1960s, a man named Jack is involved in an airplane crash in the ocean. He swims to find a building which has a sub. This leads him to the city called Rapture. The trip to Rapture suggests that the city is in bad shape and this is the beginning of the story. The city is meant to be a utopia but he soon finds out that there is something wrong with the people of the city.

The story of Bioshock is interesting. You have normal gun mechanics but there are also special abilities called plasmids such as electricity and wind and freeze which can be injected with something called ADAM. The people of the city are crazed because they have taken too much of this stuff. These are the people you have to fight. There are no monsters in this game, only other mutated humans. You have very clearly marked missions to follow as there is a yellow flashing arrow to find your way around. This makes the game easy to play. There is a bit of horror involved as the game is set mostly in the darker areas of the city. The graphics are outdated because the game was made in 2007 but the remastered version is quite a bit better graphics wise. If you were to play it in 2017, the story and gameplay would be okay, but it would feel outdated and not that enjoyable unless you don’t care about graphics.

The interesting part of the story is that the bosses in the game are called Big Daddy’s which are mutated humans in underwater suits which make them strong. Alongside them are little sisters which can be harvested of rescued for ADAM depending on your decisions through the game (which is the genetic material that gives people the ability for the superpowers).

The weapons are a little bit different as they are modified weapons like a modified shotgun and rocket launcher and pistol. You have a health meter. In order to regenerate your health you need to collect items along the way. Most of the items are collected along the way. You also get more abilities as you progress so at the end of the game you are very powerful to your enemies.

The soundtrack contains some really old music older than the 1960s and the quality is made to sound like it’s from a record player. It also uses the Unreal Engine 2.5 and 3.0.

The game is quite original in the way it was made. So, I will give it a higher score because of this.

7/10