This weekend I played the final mission and finished Bioshock.
One of the reasons I play games is their ability to take me to a new place in my imagination. Bioshock's story and execution were so excellent, it totally brought me to another world.
Which is probably why I had to take two long, extended breaks from the game before I finished it. As I wrote about this time last year, the world of Rapture is just too disturbing to experience for very long. The first time that has ever happened to me in a game.
There have been other games that I felt were so disturbing I just didnt want to play them. In this case, the story was so well written, the world so lovingly created, I had nightmares but I still wanted to know what would happen. There was at least one big twist in the story and I kept waiting to see what would happen next.
I wont spoil any of the story for you other than to say it is much more mature than 99% of the other games out there. If you play one first person adventure, it should be Bioshock. Hands-down one of the best games ever made.
I bought the game on Steam and played it on Windows XP, Vista and ultimately Windows 7. No technical problems at all for me and it looks fantastic on a nice PC.
No matter what platform you game on, you should experience Rapture for yourself.
