Official Bioshock Thread

[diskoboy]

I knew that, I mean is this comming out on ps3,

Oopsie! My bad..

I think the 360/PC has 6 months exclusivity.

[geneshifter]

Anyone else notice that little sister staring from its hole in the wall right outside the bathrooms in the demo? Or, how about that dead cat?

Every time I replay this demo, I see more things. I've finally figured out the hacking and that's really cool.

[MegaDrive20XX]

1up.com just revealed a neat lil easter egg about the BioShock demo...you can unlock HARD mode.

From the Xbox 360 Dashboard, head into your Gamer Profile and select the Game Defaults option. Once in there, click on General and change the Difficulty option to "Hard." When you load up the BioShock demo, the previously unreachable Hard difficulty option will now be highlighted. If you accidentally hit the analog stick and move away from the Hard option (thus making it unreachable again), you can hit the B button to back out and give it another shot.

[-hellvin-]

Anyone else notice that little sister staring from its hole in the wall right outside the bathrooms in the demo? Or, how about that dead cat?

Every time I replay this demo, I see more things. I've finally figured out the hacking and that's really cool.

I was really sad when I saw dead kitty =*(.

My friend showed me and it looked exactly like my kitty.


He said it was quite gooey when he hit it with the wrench but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

The little sister spying on you sounds damn creepy and I never noticed that, I think I may have a good excuse to replay the demo!

[MegaDrive20XX]

Yeah I caught like an eerie glow...so the 2nd time I played...I knew she was watching me...as for the cat...oh man...that's too much for me

[ecresto]

i preordered yesterday , def. getting it on the 21st

[theMot]

Anyway, I'm still buying this on day one. So far it's incredible and (obviously) the best looking game on the 360.

You think? I reckon Gears looks better personally. If you mean the art direction i guess thats in the eye of the beholder.

Personally im not sold on it. I think it will get better the more you play though, i remember having the same feeling when i first played final fantasy 3 (6) but these days its one of my fave games of all time, so there is still hope.

One thing i found to be a really tedious was those mini games when you take over your foes. It just slows the game down. Wtf does redirecting a pipe have to do with taking over an enemy?

[NE146]

Finished the demo, I hit stuff with a wrench, shot em with a gun and a machine gun. And used that lightning bolt from the left hand.

All the same FPS junk, in yet another dark ruins setting.

Everything in this game obviously went towards atmosphere.. the fire & water in the beginning was pretty nice, etc. But I dunno, the atmosphere it created just isn't very appealing to me.

And in the end it just seems like more tedious crap

[heybtbm]

FYI: Toys R Us appears to be breaking the street date and selling it early. Several people on CAG, GameFAQ's, and the Xbox forums bought it yesterday. It may pay to check your local store before TRU gets wise and pulls it from shelves.

I'll pass seeing as I got the beloved "3 red lights" last night (this will be my 3rd 360)! Xbox support is going through an "upgrade" today and tomorrow, so I can't even have them send me a box until Friday. Hooray!

[Oobgarm]

FYI: Toys R Us appears to be breaking the street date and selling it early. Several people on CAG, GameFAQ's, and the Xbox forums bought it yesterday. It may pay to check your local store before TRU gets wise and pulls it from shelves.

And, seeing that it's part of the 'Buy Madden, get another game 50% off' deal, one could stand to come out well on this deal.

You could even trade Madden in and keep Bioshock...meaning you'd have paid full price, but get $25-$30 credit at the local GameStop.

[PapaStu]

Well its looking bad, 2K hasn't said anything yet, the 2K forums seemed to have crashed due to the traffic in the BioShock areas and copies are selling for 100 bucks on ebay right now.


I'm off to TRU, wish me luck.

[Slate]

Well its looking bad, 2K hasn't said anything yet, the 2K forums seemed to have crashed due to the traffic in the BioShock areas and copies are selling for 100 bucks on ebay right now.

What? Copies are selling for $100? You've got to be kidding. I mean, I'm buying it on day 1 and am going to love playing it, But darn... $100?

[heybtbm]

Well its looking bad, 2K hasn't said anything yet, the 2K forums seemed to have crashed due to the traffic in the BioShock areas and copies are selling for 100 bucks on ebay right now.


I'm off to TRU, wish me luck.

I just checked out my local TRU at lunch...no dice.

The whole $100 ebay thing is beyond silly, especially considering that most buyers won't receive the game in the mail before next week anyway.

[PapaStu]

Welp, the word seems to have gotten out to TRU about their 'slight' fuckup. The guy in the RZone tried to play dumb with me, but I had just seen his manager come shooting out of his office and have a talk with them before I got in there. He then told me that they hadn't gotten any copies in stock or anything... Too bad there was 6 or 7 master boxes full of Wii's and other Master boxes for 360 games on the same trolly cart.

Oh well.

[geneshifter]

Just checked at my TRU in Arlington, TX. No go here. They were very strict that they were not going to sell it early.

I'll keep checking the 2K forums for any official word but they might as well go ahead and release it early. Here's one site that's covering it fairly well:

http://the7gamers.com/2007/08/14/bio...early-release/

[TallMike]

BioShock was leaked on the internet already, torrents galore for it now.

I called the toys r us by me and the woman said it was "pushed" back to the 21st, so they did screw up and sell early.. figures I just missed it too.

PC version doesn't seem to have that problem as far as I can tell.

[PapaStu]

2K Games has come out and reaffirmed the 21st as a street date and that it was all a Boo-boo by one of their retail partners. linky

Aparently around 12pm EST TRU Corporate sent out a PULL THE GAME NOW email, so when I got to my TRU this morning they'd already gotten the notice before they opened. I wonder what kinda damage 2K is gonna post against TRU, if any.

[geneshifter]

Well, this sucks The LE edition here in the US is just some cheap cardboard and NO tin case for the discs. All other countries are getting the tin case but not the americas. Also, it's been reported from someone that his Big Daddy figurine was damaged upon receipt. Looks like I'm canceling my LE preorder.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6...59smallxg4.jpg

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4...60smallss4.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9...63smallfh8.jpg

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3622

[gepeto]

Well, this sucks The LE edition here in the US is just some cheap cardboard and NO tin case for the discs. All other countries are getting the tin case but not the americas. Also, it's been reported from someone that his Big Daddy figurine was damaged upon receipt. Looks like I'm canceling my LE preorder.]

I Am still getting mine. The re4 gamecube gamestop was all tin and no content. I prefer content. the tin is nice but I think they are trying to save money. It still looks nice though. batman rise of sin zu collectors was cardboard and it really wasn't that bad.

[heybtbm]

2K Games has come out and reaffirmed the 21st as a street date and that it was all a Boo-boo by one of their retail partners. I wonder what kinda damage 2K is gonna post against TRU, if any.

Nothing will happen. TRU still can move a lot of units, not to mention retailers run the show. Publishers bow to them...not the other way around.