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Home : Games : Reviews : Xbox 360 : BioShock
It’s these kinds of interactions between your plasmids and the environment that constantly keep combat in BioShock fun and fresh. This is fortunate too, because the guns in BioShock honestly aren’t that interesting. You have a pretty basic assortment of standard weapons here: Wrench, pistol, shotgun, machine gun, grenade launcher, crossbow, and flamethrower. One of the cooler things about the weapons in Bioshock is that they are all pretty well balanced. Even the wrench, which is the first weapon you acquire in the game, still remains fairly useful throughout the entire game when used in conjunction with plasmids like electrobolt and winter blast.
This is thanks to the fact that for the most part, every single aspect of your character, your weapons, and your plasmids are upgradeable. Weapons can be upgraded via upgrade stations that are strewn across the map, most plasmids have stronger versions that can be bought using the Adam you receive from Little Sisters (more on that coming up next), and tonics can be found or purchased to enhance certain aspects of your character. The catch is that there are only a certain number of upgrade stations to upgrade your weapons, you only have so much Adam to upgrade your plasmids, and you can only equip a couple of tonics at a time unless you use even more Adam to purchase extra slots.
Adam is what makes these genetic modifications possible. I’m not going to go too much into it because finding out what Adam is and what it does is a big part of the story in BioShock, but let’s just say that everyone in Rapture is looking to get their hands on it. Unfortunately for you, the only carriers of Adam in the game are these little girls with creepy glowing eyes called Little Sisters. Now, the Little Sisters themselves aren’t much of a threat. While they do look kind of creepy in a Linda Blair kind of way, they are still just little kids and won’t put up much of a fight. The problem is who’s guarding them. Every Little Sister is guarded by a hulking Big Daddy who will stop at nothing to make you dead if you so much as touch a strand of hair on a Little Sister’s head.
The Big Daddies come in two varieties, both equally fearsome and dangerous. Bouncers will most likely make for the most intense battles as they are deceptively fast for their size and will perform a high speed charge at you without hesitation should the distance between you two become too large. Once in range, you are completely at the mercy of the Big Daddy’s extremely powerful melee attacks which will knock you around and blur your vision each time you get hit. The other kind of Big Daddy is the Rosie, which prefers to play it much safer than the Bouncer and likes to stay back and shoot you with his rivet gun and throw proximity mines in your area.
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