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| Me. Playing through the introduction to Bioshock. |
I abhor scary things, so I have no idea what made me decide to play Bioshock when FFVII wouldn't play nice with my OS. I mean, scary books are okay because I can change the environment that I read them in and they then become less scary...video games are just so overwhelming when it comes to your senses. In books it is just your imagination, in video games it is visual, auditory, and interactive. Nevertheless, here we are. Essentially three seconds after the game menu came up, I had to turn on more pleasant music and grab a blanket to hide under; I'm pretty much the biggest wimp when it comes to scary/suspenseful things and this game is definitely scary. I've got a lot of the story line down. Guy named Jack starts on plane, plane crashes into large body of water in a fiery explosion, I have to get the guy to land and find my way into this creepy submarine, and then creepy submarine plays a cut scene......then the really creepy stuff begins. From inside my safe little submarine, I watch a man get bludgeoned to death by this terribly creepy man and am shortly thereafter forced to leave my safe little submarine to face this violent little man. Oh yeah, in the sub, I picked up this radio on which I am talking to a guy named Atlas [appropriately named] and he is directing me around, giving me goals.
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| A "Little Sister" stabbing a guy with a syringe. |
Things just got better and better after this. By better and better, I mean scarier and more violent. There are these "little sisters" that you can save. They're creepy little girls who, when you first meet them, appear to enjoy stabbing already dead people in the eye-socket with a syringe. I can also hack different electronics to my benefit by playing, what I would refer to as, mini-games that involve rearranging pipes so the the beginning connects to the end properly. The one redeeming factor to this game are the diary/journal things I can pick up and listen to...they're pretty neat. I can hear what happened to random individuals before the whole city, as my family would say, went to hell in a hand-basket.
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| Hacking Pipe Game |
All in all, I'm enjoying the story line immensely. I really just dislike the creepy voices and the fact that I have to kill these poor people over and over with such crude methods as setting them on fire and then inimically bludgeoning them with my pipe wrench. It's horridly violent.
