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Xbox 360 | Action | BioShock

Boxart for BioShock
BioShock 103 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 5.00
  • SOUND: 5.00
  • CONTROL: 4.75
  • FUN FACTOR 5.00
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.7
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.9
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

BioShock Description

From the same minds that brought the unique FPS, System Shock 2, comes this science fiction shooter. It will be released sometime in 2007.

Mature Titles rated "Mature (M)" have content suitable for persons ages 17 and older. These products may include more intense violence or language than products in the Teen category. In addition, these titles may also include mature sexual themes.

Recently Added

News: Take Two confirms BioShock 3

It's trilogy time: Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick confirmed BioShock 3 would likely arrive just in time for the feature-length film.

News: BioShock confirmed for PlayStation 3

Rumor became fact today after the July issue of EGM confirmed BioShock was heading to the PlayStation 3.

News: BioShock movie officially announced

The film adaptation of the critically-acclaimed game will be produced by Universal Pictures, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), and written by John Logan (Gladiator), confirmed 2K Games on Friday.

News: BioShock 2 confirmed for release in fall of 2009

Take-Two Interactive on Tuesday announced the follow-up to the critically acclaimed BioShock, but the sequel is being developed by a new studio.

News: Bioshock team seeks coders with 'PS3 experience'

Despite listing three job opening for developers with "PlayStation 3 experience," 2K Games says it has "nothing to announce at this time."

Review

Review: BioShock EP

Part of what made Rapture such a creepy place to romp around in was the eerie and unsettling music found throughout.

Review: BioShock for Xbox 360

This neo-horror shooter will make your blood run cold, and it's one of the best games of the year.

Previews

Screen Update: Bioshock

It's shocking how you can never get enough Bioshock screens.

Screen Update: Bioshock

We've got 37 new, juicy screen shots of our exclusive game play of Bioshock.

Preview: E3 Impressions: Bioshock

We got an in-depth look at one of the most hotly anticipated titles around and here's a shocker: it looks damn good.

Hands-On: BioShock

The year is 1960. I'm flying home on a red-eye transatlantic flight. Packed into my coach seat I flip through my passport as I finish off the last of my burning cigarette. Turbulence gently rocks the cabin as the fasten seatbelt sign illuminates the dimly lit cabin. From behind a stewardess is calling out to me in a rather contemptuous voice.

Preview: BioShock: FACTSHEET

2K Announces Bioshock As an Exclusive Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Title

Screen Update: Bioshock

These new screens will scar you- truly shocking stuff.

Screen Update: BioShock

Updated BioShock Screens!

Screen Update: BioShock

3 new exciting screens of BioShock to hold you over!

Screen Update: BioShock

Magnums are good for painting the walls with blood. 2 more BioShock screens to see.

Screen Update: BioShock

Twelve new screens to drool over...

Screen Update: BioShock

26 new screenshots for the FPS everyone is talking about!

Screen Update: BioShock

BioShock is loaded with vintage posters and other advertisements. Here's a look at some of them.

First Look: BioShock: A Classic in the Making

BioShock is the spiritual successor to System Shock 2, a groundbreaking but survival-horror shooter designed by Irrational Games in 1999. Judging by our early experience with BioShock, the game might be even more risky and inspired than System Shock 2. Needless to say, it looked phenomenally promising.

Cheats

Cheats: Xbox Achievement List (+ Secret Achievements)

Check out the Xbox Achievements list for BioShock (including secret Achievements!).

Cheats: Hack Like a Pro

Haxx0r tricks for BioShock!

News

News: Take Two confirms BioShock 3

It's trilogy time: Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick confirmed BioShock 3 would likely arrive just in time for the feature-length film.

News: BioShock confirmed for PlayStation 3

Rumor became fact today after the July issue of EGM confirmed BioShock was heading to the PlayStation 3.

News: BioShock movie officially announced

The film adaptation of the critically-acclaimed game will be produced by Universal Pictures, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), and written by John Logan (Gladiator), confirmed 2K Games on Friday.

News: BioShock 2 confirmed for release in fall of 2009

Take-Two Interactive on Tuesday announced the follow-up to the critically acclaimed BioShock, but the sequel is being developed by a new studio.

News: Bioshock team seeks coders with 'PS3 experience'

Despite listing three job opening for developers with "PlayStation 3 experience," 2K Games says it has "nothing to announce at this time."

News: 2K Games quiet on expected BioShock...prequel?

Publisher says "nothing to announce at all" amid a Czech-based rumor suggesting that a sequel is already in pre-production.

News: BioShock update provides fixes, adds plasmids

Some great news arrived for diehard fans of first-person shooter BioShock today in the form of an eagerly anticipated update and new downloadable content.

News: Speculation: BioShock launching on Wii, PS3 in 2009

Given BioShock's hit success, 2K Games would be crazy not to release the shooter as a multiplatform title on Wii and PS3 says one analyst.

News: BioShock draws attention for 'killing' little girls

The local Massachusetts paper where Irrational Games is based examines the shock value and moral dilemma of killing characters that resemble young girls in the recently released BioShock for Xbox 360 and PC.

News: Source: BioShock likely coming to PS3

An inside source tells us that the critically acclaimed BioShock for Xbox 360 and PC is, in fact, on its way to PS3 after all.

News: Take-Two readies Bioshock for Xbox 360, PC release

Take-Two announced today that BioShock has gone to gold master for Xbox 360 and PC this week. Translation: The game is being pressed on discs and will ship in time for its anticipated August 21 release.

News: GamePro Q&A: BioShock Creator Speaks

BioShock is shaping up to be one of the most intense, psychologically disturbing games ever created. We spoke with Ken Levine, the president and creative director of Irrational Games, to glean a few more dark secrets from the waterlogged world of Rapture.

News: BioShock Director: EA "Didn't Give a Sh*t"

In an interview with PC Gamer, BioShock creative director Ken Levine expresses his feelings about EA's alleged disinterest in making a sequel to System Shock 2, saying that "they didn't give a sh*t about [the] game."

Features

Feature: Interview: Ken Levine

Creative Director of BioShock Ken Levine speaks on working with AI, the Creative Process, and what nearly didn't make it in the game...

Feature: BioShock vs. Halo 3

GamePro pins two obvious Game of the Year candidates against each other. But which one emerges victorious?

Feature: GamePro BioShock Roundtable

Welcome to the GamePro BioShock roundtable, where we ask the GamePro staff some questions and gather their thoughts on BioShock, the dark horse of 2007.

Videos

GP Original Series: Chenda Ngak Reacts to BioShock!

Chenda Ngak takes a stab at the FPS BioShock and lives to tell the tale. See how a casual gamer reacts to a hardcore shooter.

Humor: Nando's Pick of the Week!

Guess what Nando's Pick of the Week is? You'll be shocked (shameless pun)!

Trailers: BioShock Rapture Trailer

Get to know the coolest undersea community since Atlantis!

GP Original Series: BioShock: A Hero's Journey Part Three

BioShock is Here! Watch as these two lucky fans make it to the BioShock release party and mingle with the game's creators!

Trailers: BioShock: Plasmids Demo

Plasmids are in.

Trailers: BioShock: Interview

BioShock Creative Director Ken Levine discusses the various power-ups, including Plasmids and Gene Tonics.

Trailers: BioShock Trailer

Check out the trailer for Bioshock. A first person shooter, under the ocean!

Trailers: Straight from Germany: Bioshock Gameplay!!!

You may not understand what's being said, but you won't have to. This game is going to change the way we think about shooters forever. Dankt GamePro Deutschland!!