Bioshock demo available
 

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2...-bioshock.aspx

Plan on downloading it when I get home today... can't wait for it.

porter is cumming as we speak about this demo.

I downloaded it last night, it's pretty killer! Graphically better than Gears of War if you can believe it.

The amount of detail in this game(things you see around the buildings, or outside the windows out in the ocean) is going to be crazy. I had to play through the demo 3 times just to be sure I saw everything. Playing it on loud audio in the dark is sure to give you the creeps a bit.

Lhurg, you should have let it download while you were at work though man. People are saying it's still bogged down cause of how many people are trying to download at once. Getting reports of 7 hour download times and shit.

Everyone and their momma, including reviewers and everything, are all Screaming "Game of the Year"

Hard to say that when we haven't even played Mass Effect or Halo 3 yet though. We'll see.

I am VERY impressed.

I'll have to play the demo now that it's out. I reserved the collectors one at gamestop and have been pretty stoked about it coming out in a few weeks. I like the extras I get with it.
I figure if anyone is really wanting the game might as well go for the gold. The limited edition is avalible for the X box 360 but all i see for PC is the game.

pretty impressed I must say.

this is lame, my xbox red ringed the afternoon before the demo was announced, now I have to wait 3-4 weeks for them to repair/send me a new/refub one. GHAHAHGHGHAHGAHGHGH

at least the stranglehold demo was fun (died while playing that)

Yeah, red ring is ghey. I'm getting a 2nd xbox and am planning to crack it open and fix the problems so I don't get the red ring. The primary problem is their thermal paste, so I'll just gunk on some Arctic Silver, and toss in some new fans or something.

All the newer 360s come with updated motherboards, with HDMI output, and more heatsinks. People are saying they've fixed the hardware problems with this, but us early adopters who have these older 360s still have to suffer :(

Least they extended the warranty to 3 years. I was real happy with that.

The graphics are, without a doubt, impressive. The gameplay is interesting, and plasmids offer a nice deviation from the monotonous hack, slash, and shoot happy action games that are available in excess these days. However after playing through the demo twice I found the plasmids to be a weee bit repetitive themselves and the revolver and tommy gun felt impractical; you can light someone on fire but you still have to shoot them 3-4 times for a fast kill...mmmmm.

No doubt this will be a game I'll want to rent and play through, however that will probably be the extent of my interest. This game won't make game of the year because it lacks content that other heavy hitters have this year, which is the multilayer aspect. Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 will undoubtedly set the benchmark for multilayer gameplay this year, if not for several more years to come. Mass Effect has great potential to be the next big RPG since oblivion (Though that's comparing apples to oranges, seeing as how mass effect is part action adventure).

What makes a great game in the present? or in the past? A great game is a game that you can play for more than just weeks, a great game is a game you can never truly "beat". A great game makes you want to play it, even after you've finished the primary objectives of the game. Shooters do this by boasting highly addicting multiplayer content; enticing you further by implementing rewarding content such as ranks. Role-playing games do this by immersing you in a world that you can conquer in so many different ways that you could spend the better half of the next couple of years staring at your screen trying to accomplish the task in question.

Straight up single player action games don't really have the content to savor this type of longevity. Prince of Persia, God of War, God of War 2, what do all of these games have in common? They are all award winning action adventure games that lacked support for multi player. Games like Quake, Doom, and in a more linear sense, UT were sort of a hybrid shooter/action adventure much like bioshock except they learned more towards the shooter genre and had multiplayer content in their arsenal.

The gaming scene, as it stands, is fueled heavily by competitive multiplayer games, as well as games that offer total RPG style immersion; these successful game styles inform the most deadly and seductive of all gaming genres - the MMORPG.