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Review: BioShock Infinite (PC)

April 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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BioShock Infinite (PC [Reviewed], Playstation 3, Xbox 360) Developer: Irrational Games Publisher: 2K Games Genre(s): First person shooter Released: March 22, 2013 ESRB Rating: M – Mature I'll state it upfront: This game will be on my Game of the Year shortlist without a doubt and it's set a very high bar for the remainder of this year across the board. I know that's a bold claim and challenge considering this only March as I write this review but that's the kind of impression this game has left with me. I have the same feeling coming off this game as I did after I had finished playing the first Bioshock. I'd played a game that almost transcended the genre and was something special. Different. Bioshock 2 was a solid game but felt an overglorified excuse to revisit Rapture which … [Read more...]

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Review: BioShock Infinite (PS3/360)

April 4, 2013 By 2 Comments
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BioShock Infinite (PlayStation 3 [Reviewed], Xbox 360, PC) Developer: Irrational Games Publisher: 2K Games Genre: First Person Shooter Released: March 26, 2013 ESRB Rating: M – Mature * A copy of this game was provided for review. Note: BioShock Infinite was played to completion on “Hard” difficulty. This first playthrough took between 10 and 11 hours to complete, and I did not seek out every collectible (sighting seeing or the voxphones) this time through. When I got my PlayStation 3 in 2009, I got a bunch of games to go with it. One of those was BioShock, and out of the entire stack BioShock was the very first one I played. My first PSN trophy was “Toaster in the Tub,” and it was also the first PS3 game that I beat. The original BioShock was an amazing experience … [Read more...]

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The Backlog Volume 4 – Bioshock (Xbox 360 Review)

May 29, 2011 By 3 Comments

Publisher: 2K Games Developer:  2K Boston(Windows, Xbox 360), Digital Extremes(Playstation 3), Feral Interactive(Mac) Demiurge Studios(art and level design for opening sequences) Genre(s):  Sci-fi First-Person Shooter, Action-Adventure Released:  August 21, 2007(PC, Xbox 360), October 21, 2008(Playstation 3), October 10, 2009(Mac) ESRB Rating:  M-Mature Hello and welcome back for another edition of The Backlog.  Tonight we’ll be taking a look at the first Bioshock.  So without any further adieu… Our story begins as Jack aboard a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean.  The plane suddenly begins a rapid descent and crashes into the water(and right in the middle of a good cigar, damnit).  Naturally, you are the only survivor and must swim to the nearby … [Read more...]

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