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| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 1191
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5026555246415
EAN: 5026555246415
ASIN: B000V1VZMK
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | After your plane crashes in icy, uncharted waters, you discover the hidden city of Rapture | | • | It was built by a team of scientists, artists and businessmen who dreamt of a perfect world, but their ideal has been smashed and the city is now overrun with corpses | | • | Powerful guards survey the town's streets, children loot the corpses and genetically modified citizens have only one objective in mind - to kill you! Are you prepared to put your humanity on the line to save your skin? |
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Product Description
After your plane crashes in icy, uncharted waters, you discover the hidden city of Rapture. It was built by a team of scientists, artists and businessmen who dreamt of a perfect world, but their ideal has been smashed and the city is now overrun with corpses. Powerful guards survey the town's streets, children loot the corpses and genetically modified citizens have only one objective in mind - to kill you! Are you prepared to put your humanity on the line to save your skin?
Developer : Irrational Games
Official site :
Minimum age : 18 years
Game setting : Futurist
Orientation : Action / First-person shooting game
Violent : Yes
Multiplayer mode : No
Network mode : No
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| Customer Reviews: Read 103 more reviews...
 Would you kindly... November 17, 2008
M. Diamond (Liverpool, UK)
Lets be honest, there is not usually a time or a place to rip the "evil" from the head of a small child, but here is one.
You start the game on a plane with no idea who you are or what the hell is happening, then it crashes and everything goes horribly wrong.
I wont ruin the rest of the story but suffice to say it is weirder that a chipmunk, in space, on helium.
In a brilliant master stroke the player is given control over basic environmental powers, such as fire, electricity and obviously telekenisis, wait...what?
Yup at some point in the game you get to catch grenades/rockets and fire them back at your enemies, but that is not the best bit.
The best bit is surely the enemies in the game.
Yes, they lack any kind of intelligence but damn are they weird. Splicers are basically humans on 'roids, but gone wrong. Like Arnold with a machine gun. That wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the masks... i will leave you to find those out for yourselves. Then there are the Big Daddies. Wow, now whoever thought, "Hey lets make a creepy underwater diver into a massive monster with a chainsaw for a hand!" must really have been on something, but they are by far the best characters in the game. Cute yet dangerous, i love it!!!!
Great. November 2, 2008
Mr. D. L. Selwood
This is one of the best FPS games ive ever played. It starts off quite scary, i found myself to be very cautious, but once you get used to it, get some good weapons and plasmids you will go in blazing hands of ice and fire reigning destruction a pone everything. please note: a good way to kill a big daddy is simply set up about 7/8 trip wires and let him run at you, pop some RPGS at him and job done!
Highly recommended.
 rubbish October 22, 2008
Mr. P. Stevens
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
the game plays very bad and i would advise evryone not to buy its very short and easy
Almost Perfect October 16, 2008
Kp Campkin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As the title and the scores might give away, I rather liked this game. Tell a lie, I adored it. I adored it so much that the first time I completed it, I was straight back on the first level trying to go through the game to find anything I missed on the enormous and immersive levels. I'm now playing it through for a third time, and I'm still finding huge chunks of levels that I had missed. So, despite the lack of a multiplayer (which is almost blasphemy on a FPS these days), there is more than enough to keep you coming back.
Let's skate over the basics. The graphics are superb and detailed, particularly in the water effects. The voices of the various monsters never get repetitive and the voice acting on the audio diaries that are scattered sporadically (left by the former inhabitants) is absorbing, atmospheric and sometimes even genuinely moving; a vast improvement from the flat and flavourless audio logs in 'Doom 3'. The music is a mix of nostalgic gramophone warbles to chilling eerie violin howls and odd clangs that are almost certainly a direct steal from Kubrick's 'The Shining' and the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. Absolutely nothing wrong with that at all - it just helps to ramp up the tension.
Walk down a dark corridor and hear that single high pitched wail getting louder and louder. Then be ambushed by multiple monsters whilst a nearby jukebox happily bangs out 'How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?' Yes, this game does have a black sense of humour.
The way the character can use ordinary weapons and his psi-powers is handled easily (using both triggers, one for each). The powers range from fireballs to telekinesis to electro-bolts. As the entire game is immersive, you can kill in almost any way you see fit. You can shock people standing in water, you can set fire to oil slicks and burn them alive or you can hurl explosive barrels, chairs, cash registers, bodies.. well, you get the idea. You can go through the entire game and not have to fire off a single bullet in anger.
I don't really want to ramble on too much more, so I'm going to have to skim over the fantastic plot, the impressive AI of the creatures, the moral choices you have to make in the game to determine your character and the way you can hack security cameras, gun turrets and other enemy equipment. You've probably got the idea by now anyway. Forget Halo, forget Half-Life, this is the best FPS I've played since.. well, probably Goldeneye for the N64. And that's just about the best game I've ever played.
Faults? Erm.. Hmm.. Well.. I suppose, if I wanted to nit-pick, the weapon reload can be a bit dim. Sometimes, you'll think you've reloaded your gun, then switch to a plasmid, then switch back to the gun and find it is empty. And the ending is a bit.. short. But then, there are three of them. You may even see it as a blessing - a short no nonsense ending means you can get back into the game to do, as I have done, and revisit all the wonderfully crafted levels.
So there you have it. If you're looking for an absorbing, moving, challenging, occasionally terrifying, immersive, massive, atmospheric FPS then you cannot do any better than this. If you aren't looking for any of the above, I suggest you change your outlook, alter your tastes and raid your piggybank.
I dare you to be disappointed.
 Brilliant but ? September 25, 2008
Braveheart Brian (France)
Bioshock.Brilliant simply brilliant.What a shame,Its to short.Left me wanting more.Bioshock 2 please but 5 times longer;
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