If you harvest the girls, they die, but you get 160 ADAM from them.
This is where the game makes you decide to be selfless or selfish. They're little girls with a big needle that they use to collect the sought-after stuff from dead bodies, and they're protected by the baddest enemies in the entire game, hulking armored monsters called big daddies. Most of those plasmids and tonics will have to be purchased using the raw ADAM that you collect from harvesting vessels called little sisters. There are more than 50 tonics to collect, giving you plenty of options to play around with.ĪDAM and EVE combine to let you shoot fire, lightning, ice, wind, bees, and more out of your fingertips. You can also slot some defensive stuff, like static field, which zaps anyone who touches you with a electric radius effect, and armored shell, which reduces the damage you take from physical attacks. Add bloodlust, which gives you some health back every time you club someone with your wrench, and you're a melee master with health and plasmid energy (called EVE) to spare. So if you want to make your swinging wrench attacks more powerful, you can slot up things like wrench jockey and wrench lurker, which increase your wrench damage on all attacks and when catching opponents off-guard, respectively. Tonics are skills that are slotted just like plasmids, but they have passive effects, like sportboost, which increases your movement and melee attack speed, or natural camouflage, which makes you turn invisible if you stand still for a few seconds. While it's fun to mess around with a lot of the indirect attacks, facing your enemies head-on with the more direct plasmids feels a bit more effective. You can also place decoys, plant swirling wind traps for enemies, and so on. Insect swarm causes your arm to shoot bees at your enemies, which unfortunately is far less cool-looking than it sounds. Enrage can cause enemies to fight one another. Security bullseye is a little ball you can toss at enemies, causing any nearby security cameras, turrets, or sentry bots to point in his direction. Telekinesis lets you use your left hand as if it were Half-Life 2's gravity gun. Incinerate lets you burn things and melt ice. Plasmids are the active, weaponlike genetic enhancement.
You have a limited but increasable number of spaces in various customization categories, and you can totally reconfigure all of your different plasmids and tonics at will, at no charge, at specific locations in-game. At the heart of the matter is a powerful, corrupting substance called ADAM, which makes all this genetic tinkering possible and allows you to get your first plasmid power, the ability to shoot lightning out of your fingertips.Ĭharacter customization is a key trait in BioShock.
The city is trashed, and genetic freaks called splicers roam around, attacking anything that gets in front of them. Sounds like the perfect society, right? Well, even before you step out of your bathysphere and into the city, it becomes obvious that everything has gone horribly wrong down here. Masterminded by a somewhat megalomaniacal businessman named Andrew Ryan, this city is driven by its own idea of total freedom, with capitalism completely unhindered by governmental meddling and science unhinged from the pesky morals of organized religion. After catching a breathtaking view of what's below, you're sent into the secret underwater city of Rapture. Who in their right mind would put a lighthouse this far out? You swim closer and discover a small submersible called a bathysphere waiting to take you underwater. But there's a lighthouse on a tiny island just at the edge of your view. One mysterious plane crash later, you're floating in the water, apparently the lone survivor, surrounded by the flaming wreckage of the aircraft. The year is 1960, and you're flying over the Atlantic Ocean. Rapture is an amazing city that sits at the bottom of the ocean, but something's gone horribly wrong down there.īioShock opens with a bang, but the overall plot focuses more on making an emotional impact than an explosive one. All of it blends together to form a rich, interesting world that sucks you in right away and won't let go until you've figured out what, exactly, is going on in the undersea city of Rapture. Sure, the action is fine, but its primary focus is its story, a sci-fi mystery that manages to feel retro and futuristic at the same time, and its characters, who convey most of the story via radio transmissions and audio logs that you're constantly stumbling upon as you wander around.
While on the surface it might look like little more than a very pretty first-person shooter, BioShock is much, much more than that.
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