Bioshock system shock crossover1/30/2024 ![]() ![]() OMG, America’s history includes bloodshed and racism. But what it says is so dopey and worn out that it’s not effective. The only reason the game is getting such raves is because of the Maxfield Parrish-like visuals, the whole Elizabeth thing (which should read as pretty dumb to anyone over the age of 18), and that it Has Something to Say About America. I’m still trying to figure out a) what the hell the Skyhook does, b)how DeWitt can jump like 50 feet to a Skyhook point and c) where the hell Elizabeth gets her Skyhook since she just suddenly has one out of nowhere. The vigors are pretty much exactly the same as what was in Bioshock, and the whole “magic left hand” thing doesn’t fit in with the concept at all. The looting is tedious, the gunplay is terrible. ![]() In this, I’m literally going into populated ice cream shops and digging in the trash for hot dogs to eat. It’s one thing to root around scavenging in System Shock 2 and the first two Bioshocks because they were places in ruin. The movie parts are OK (even though Elizabeth is exactly a cross between a Disney princess and one of the kids from Akira and her voice actor sounds straight out of drama school) and the Something to Say About America parts are trite but sort of funny in that “oh my god, old timey racism” way…but the gameplay is fucking awful. But never have I seen a game so horrifically blunder that line between movie and video game. I’ve been playing Bioshock Infinite, and it’s terrible. I mean, how dark can you make Shazam? It’s a great fighting game, TONS of single player content. It is definitely Mortal Kombat with DC characters, and that works for me even though I’m not really into the “dark” superhero thing outside of characters that were already dark. Reviewed Injustice at NHS this week- I love it. ![]() Yay, new Star Wars LCG deck this week…ordered it and the BBTM expansion, finally. Trying to get review copies for Triassic Terror and a couple of other things. Z-Man is kindly sending a copy of Terra Mystica, really looking forward to it. Read it at NHS, but long story short, I won’t be selling off my Talisman set any time soon. Not so much a review as a disappointed observation. I played it a bunch last night and wrote about it. ![]()
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