Well, for FPS fans like me, it is pretty much the most awesome game ever, because it's got airtight design that relies on modular game elements and not just theme-park style scripting, a great plot, AI that adapts to what you do and what other enemies do, environments that you can use, a good stealth model, some very scary moments that rival the best horror games I've ever played, and so on.
It's an FPS, but another FPS the way the Who are just another rock band. It's obviously going to be a game within the confines of its genre, Ken Levine and co. never denied that it's a FPS at its core. They're not subverting or reinventing the genre (really, Bioshock is a refined and perfected update to System Shock 2) that was never their goal. I can't really put it across how much better it is than most every other FPS I've ever played, if you already dislike FPSes. Much the way that I can't convince someone who simply doesn't like heavy metal how good Mastodon is. They are "another heavy metal band", one among many thousands, but they're the best.
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Date: 2007-09-04 08:03 pm (UTC)It's an FPS, but another FPS the way the Who are just another rock band. It's obviously going to be a game within the confines of its genre, Ken Levine and co. never denied that it's a FPS at its core. They're not subverting or reinventing the genre (really, Bioshock is a refined and perfected update to System Shock 2) that was never their goal. I can't really put it across how much better it is than most every other FPS I've ever played, if you already dislike FPSes. Much the way that I can't convince someone who simply doesn't like heavy metal how good Mastodon is. They are "another heavy metal band", one among many thousands, but they're the best.