Bioshock

Well, I just finished this game, and it was pretty cool, so I recommend it to anyone with a good enough PC to play it. Sadly I'm not one of those people... LOL! :)

The game only supports Shader3 cards, so that left my old RADEON 9600 out. Luckily for me, there were a lot of the people in the same boat, so someone came up with a fix for the Shader2 cards. You can read about it here: Shader Shock Project
It works like a charm!

The only downside is that I was not able to experience the full beauty of the game and all the water effects throughout. I wish it looked like the screen shots you can loot at on any gaming site, but at times it looked like I was playing an old-school game. Also, it would only run quick for me at 800x600 at Medium resolution, so that further dithered it down :(

It was still a fun game to play, and I found a good Walkthrough for the game by Brokaliv which you can find here: Brokaliv's Bioshock Walkthrough

One thing I did not see mentioned ANYWHERE is how to get a helper for yourself on the levels! Yes, there is the whole Hacking the Security Bots (2 at a time max), but they are VERY annoying and tend to get killed off quickly :( Eventually I just stopped using them. But later I discovered something on accident that I used for the rest of the game! :)

If you have already harvested/rescued all the Little Sisters from a zone, you will still see Big Daddies walking around. If you hit one of these solo Big Daddies with the "Hypnotize Big Daddy" plasmid, he will suddenly turn Green in the face and follow you around as your own massive personal bodyguard, killing anything that you attack or attacks you! The only thing you have to watch is accidentally shooting or causing AOE damage to the BD, because he will immediately turn on you and you can't make him friendly again with the plasmid :( If that happens, just go find another! :)

It's always nice to have extra firepower alongside yourself in those multi-splicer attacks :)

All in all, a great game (which I guess is why it won all those awards), and when I build my new computer I will probably play again to get the full effect.