by Scott Dalton

Created on: March 10, 2010

I haven't played many games with quite the beginning Bioshock has.  Sitting on a flight, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, next thing you know the plane is vertical, pummeling towards the ocean, with a fiery crash you somehow survive.  All within about 30 seconds.  Way to hook you from the beginning.

The story after said plane crash, believe it or not, gets better.  You somehow survive the blazing inferno of a plane and surface in the ocean amongst the wreckage.  When you surface, you see (of all things) a lighthouse.  In the middle of the ocean.  Neat huh?  As you enter it, you see banners and posters and even a little film promoting a place that "morals and ethic's don't impede science".  This 'place' is actually a huge underwater city called Rapture, and this is where the game takes place.

You arrive in Rapture in a small submarine type vehicle found at the bottom of the lighthouse.  In this submarine you find a radio which you use to communicate with a man who guides you through the game, amongst other plot character you eventually encounter.  You witness a gruesome murder right off the bat, and it makes the first 'chapter' of Bioshock sort of frightening.  As you follow you're radio friend's instructions, you come across a wrench, your first weapon, and across the mutated 'splicers' that are humans warped by what you are just about to do.  You are guided to what looks like a broken old style vending machine, with one of what it sells laying on it.  It's basically a large needle full of liquid, and after injecting it into your arm, you fall unconscious and wake up able to shoot lighting from your hands.  Cool huh?

As the game progresses, you come across all kinds of new weapons, like the classic machine guns and shotguns typical of shooters, and other powers similar to the lightning.  The powers are a bit harder to come by, because the vending machines that sell them (yes, they are sold from vending machines) only take an alternate currency called Adam.  You get Adam from Little sister's, basically possessed little girls that harvest Adam from dead bodies.  Sounds easy right?  Except each one has a large robot bodyguard, called a Big Daddy, which needs to be killed before you can harvest the adam.  Not an easy feat.  You can also buy upgrades to these powers from the machines, and another type of item called 'tonics'.  These are passive upgrades

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