| I finished playing Bioshock just today and I find it just average. The story and atmosphere is interesting. The audio-logs collected convey a convincing picture as to what happened to Rapture and what happened to the owners of those audio-logs.
Gameplay wise, the game itself is easy. Perhaps too easy for a shooter. It's as if the developers are aiming at an audience who have never touched a game before. The fact that you can resurrect at Vita-chambers without any penalty, weapons and items are strewn everywhere proves this.
The controls, while okay, can become troublesome as you are forced to use both plasmids and guns when dealing with enemies (be they splicers or Big Daddies). The guns are mostly underpowered. For example, not even a shotgun can kill an enemy instantly even though you shot them at point-blank range. Plasmids (the offensive ones), while useful, only helps to incapacitate the enemy more than killing them outright. The passive ones are more useful but it depends more on the situation than frequent use.
The fact that the levels are numerous and long, fighting the same enemies over and over again, hacking cameras, booths and turrets and the rinse and repeat nature of the game does make it repetitive overtime. If the developers had just cut off a few of the levels, perhaps the game wouldn't feel like a drag.
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