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Insane BioShock 'review commercial' makes me weak in the knees photo

BioShock is the type of game that I wish I could forget I ever played so I could go back and experience it for the first time all over again. This fantastic ad kind of gave me the same feeling -- even though it's basically a commercial showcasing the game's excellent reviews, the level of detail and atmosphere in it makes it well worth the watch.

I know a game has nailed atmosphere to perfection when I actually find myself thinking about going there as if it was a real place. Silent Hill used to take the cake for me, but I think of Rapture I wish I could spend a day there, despite splicers falling out of the ceiling and Big Daddies stomping about. If this kind of atmospheric immersion is the future of gaming, it could be the best era in gaming we've seen yet.

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twesterm's Avatar
twesterm at 12/13/2007 12:01
Really?

I'm actually not a huge fan of that commercial. It only really shows off the reviews (which is never a bad thing) but doesn't do that great of job of telling about the atmosphere the original commercial did for me.
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king3vbo at 12/13/2007 12:07
Thats a very pretty commercial
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Holyetheline at 12/13/2007 12:18
i played bioshock lastnight, i love it a lot
HawtPawkitHero's Avatar
HawtPawkitHero at 12/13/2007 12:18
I didn't like bioshock.
BluDesign's Avatar
BluDesign at 12/13/2007 12:20
I can't wait to get my copy back in Feb so I can try out the new plasmids and make a run at that 100pt insane achievement.
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Surf314 at 12/13/2007 12:20
The cake is a lie, Bioshock takes the pi!
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MechaMonkey at 12/13/2007 12:28
@Surf314

I see what you did there.
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wardrox at 12/13/2007 12:36
If you don't like Bioshock, you just don't understand Bioshock.

:-P
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ShadowXOR at 12/13/2007 12:37
Bioshock was great but the atmosphere of System Shock 2 pulled me in a lot deeper, and I usually hate sci-fi. Bioshock was a great game but it felt more like a spiritual successor to Half-Life 2 (gameplay wise) than System Shock 2. It got dumbed down too much. At least it was a good game, unlike Deus Ex: Invisible War.
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HawtPawkitHero at 12/13/2007 13:16
/yawn
It was pretty.
The storyline was pretty much MEH.
I don't see why it was perfect though...
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ShadowXOR at 12/13/2007 13:23
I think it was relatively perfect for what it was, but I was looking for something deeper. The storyline in System Shock 2 was done better as well in my opinion. Even though the same guy wrote the logs you find, they didn't seem nearly as interesting in this game.
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OWLICKS at 12/13/2007 13:40
HawtPawkitHero is such a badass wildcard that he don't give a shit about your game of the year.

He played WoW.
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Angel Thanatos at 12/13/2007 13:53
The Story line itself starts off slow, but after a couple hours it does become GotY material. You just have to give it a chance :P....

At the rate of advancement in technology do you think rapture invented the internet before Al Gore did?
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BFeld13 at 12/13/2007 13:57
So win
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Eschatos at 12/13/2007 14:29
Very nice, the game and the ad.
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AgentMOO at 12/13/2007 14:31
In before 11 out of 10
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Mozgus at 12/13/2007 16:13
I'm so tired of this. People, please wake up. Bioshock was just good. GOOD! Not great or fantastic or GOTFY! It was a nice FPS in an original setting, but really what's so damn amazing? If you play it for just 1 hour, you've seen everything it has to offer you, which is some water, some hallways, a big daddy, a creepy bitch, some guns, some powers, and some freaks. Every hour from then on just repeats this. Now if it were a great game, it might, I don't know, take me to a new level with a new setting or visual style or just something other than shades of rust brown.

I don't like it because I don't "get" it? No. I don't like it, because I "got" it long before the average player did, apparently, most likely because FPS is my favorite genre, and Bioshock didn't surprise, startle, or intrigue me in any way.
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Im OK at 12/13/2007 16:57
HOW DARE ANYONE SAY BIOSHOCK IS ANYTHING MORE THAN MERELY GOOD?!!!1~1212~12 YOU ARE WRONG!!!!@`!2`1@ I'M SO TIRED OF THIS!!!@#!@!@4341~4`!!! HHHHUUUURRRRRGGGGG!!!`12~!2~!@`344~`23!!

Insert close sarcasm tag here, obviously, because I personally thought Bioshock was as awesome as everyone has said it was, considering that I only recently finished it for the first time. Up there with HL2. Sadly, I haven't played System Shock 2 past the tutorial level because it kept crashing on me, but if it really is better than Bioshock as some are saying, then damn... just damn. I need to find a way to make it work.
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MissHinasaki at 12/13/2007 17:32
Gaaaaah! I was finally over the fact that I cannot play Bioshock! Now the pain is all coming back to me...
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ScottyG at 12/13/2007 18:48
Cool commercial, but Quicktime for the lose. :p
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Aertyr at 12/13/2007 21:46
10 out of 10 isn't enough for it's majesty.
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Fading Star at 12/14/2007 00:08
Not a bad commercial.
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Necros at 12/14/2007 01:25
So...I suppose I should play my copy soon.
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