Bioshock demo is now up!

Sad Professor

What you reading this for? Go get it!

Lamposts

Legend.

Smellyirishman

Bast*rds.

Mr E

New trailer up too.....

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23435.html

Can't wait for this game!

Mitch Connor

Really looking forward to this, so I am going to avoid the demo.

Gran Hermano

Any confirmation of the region-free status on this?
This makes me think it will be.

I think I'll risk ordering the NTSC version on Play-asia, The Darkness
was from the same publisher and the NTSC version worked fine over here.

Kinetic^

DLing now:)

Sad Professor

I haven't had a chance to play it yet but according to Major Nelson's interview with Ken Levine the demo is a slightly tweaked version of the first level, they moved a few things around so the real game won't play the exact same. Anyway all the word is positive so far... can't wait .

johnny_ultimate

Ah! This demo is taking an insultingly long time to download. It has stalled two times now. Anyway, hopefully Ill get to play it in the next week .

Zapp Brannigan

Aye this is ridiculous. Been downloading since half 1 and I'm only 53% in.
I better get to play this before Prison Break.

johnny_ultimate

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

Aye this is ridiculous. Been downloading since half 1 and I'm only 53% in.
I better get to play this before Prison Break.

It reminds me of Half Life 2 launch day: thousands of nerds trying to download the same couple of gigabytes of material at the same time
I think Ill write that novel Ive been meaning to work on while Im waiting.

Zapp Brannigan

johnny_ultimate wrote:

It reminds me of Half Life 2 launch day: thousands of nerds trying to download the same couple of gigabytes of material at the same time
I think Ill write that novel Ive been meaning to work on while Im waiting.

I got home, stuck HL2 on and went to play a gig. When I got home at like 2 in the morning it was still going!!

johnny_ultimate

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

I got home, stuck HL2 on and went to play a gig. When I got home at like 2 in the morning it was still going!!

I remember sitting there watching the numbers go up really really slowly, only for a new download to start as soon as one was finished.
And it was all on dial up too.

Sad Professor

Yeah a lot of people are having trouble downloading. I heard Marketplace went a few times last night with all the traffic. I left mine running all night and thankfully it had completed when I woke up this morning.

Anyway terrific demo, even better when you consider it's really only the training level that introduces you to the world. I'm even more hyped about the game now. The design is fantastic.

Zapp Brannigan

Sad Professor wrote:

Yeah a lot of people are having trouble downloading. I heard Marketplace went a few times last night with all the traffic. I left mine running all night and thankfully it had completed when I woke up this morning.

Anyway terrific demo, even better when you consider it's really only the training level that introduces you to the world. I'm even more hyped about the game now. The design is fantastic.

I hate you! Rub it in why dont ya?

Lamposts

Bioshock... 10/10

It was very short though

Zapp Brannigan

Just turned on my xbox there. The download crapped out and now I'm starting all over again.

This better be worth it (who am I kidding of course it will be)

johnny_ultimate

56% at an average of one percent every 10 minutes.
Only around 8 hours to go then. Huzzah!
If my Xbox 360 doesn't overheat and explode by then, of course.

pljudge321

Most athmospheric game I have EVER played.

If you remember the E3 cgi trailer from last year it looks almost exactly like that,
even the way you move is the same. The story seems like it's goin to be brilliant,
sucks you right in from the get go.

They hit the nail on the head where the gameplay is concerned, it feels right, the character moves fluidly, like a real person unlike some fps's where it feels like you're trawling through mud. The fighting is fun,frantic and deep, which is an odd combination. There are tons opportunities for strategy using the environments (and the security bots) to your advantage. And this is with the two plasmids available to you from a total of 8 in the full game.

You really have to play it to understand. Day one purchase for me and I wont be surprised if this game gets loads of game of the year awards and goes down in gaming history with a place beside HL2.

ciano1

download stuck on %53 :mad: :mad: :mad:

Zapp Brannigan

My download went from 76% to 62%.

How!?

ciano1

mine went up to 62%

koneko

It didn't actually take very long for me, for some reason.

And.... wow. I was going to resist and wait for the full game but... you know... I couldn't wait

Vic Vinegar

Definitely buying this, just as soon as microsoft repair my 360! :mad:

Sad Professor

You're not still downloading this are you, Zapp?

Zapp Brannigan

Download stuck at 97% for the last hour. Going to have to try for the third time to get it. It really shows up MS that they can't get their servers to cope with popular demos.

Sad Professor

That's really annoying. And the download counter isn't always accurate and sometimes gets stuck even though it actually still is downloading. I had a terrible time trying to get The Darkness demo a while back. I had to delete and restart it about 3 times.

Zapp Brannigan

Looks like I wont get to play this until tomorrow at this rate. Ah well, it should be worth it! And I will get it on my birthday! Whooo!!

McDermotX

pljudge321 wrote:

Most athmospheric game I have EVER played.

You really have to play it to understand. Day one purchase for me and I wont be surprised if this game gets loads of game of the year awards and goes down in gaming history with a place beside HL2.

Its gonna be good alright.....early print reviews from the likes of PC Gamer have placed the title right up in the upper echelons of recent gaming (95% etc )..

On a few different forums a while back, I was saying how this was the game to wait for on the 360, when people were going gaga over the increasingly routine looking Halo3.. Its going to be a game which should hopefully find a large audience.......something that was never reflected in the relatively low sales of the Thief and System Shock series, but would have been fully deserved..
PC Gamer also made reference to a later level in Bioshock, which brought back memories of "The Cradle" level in the last Thief game (only good thing about that particular title)......the same levels were designed by the same person for both titles. So anyone who had the fortune of playing "The Cradle" will probably have a good idea of the type of atmosphere to expect from Bioshock..

Will probably plump for the PC version for graphic performance reasons, but the 360 version is looking top notch and this demo only reinforces that..

kensutz

10 hours downloading so far on a 6mb connection

Zapp Brannigan

Class! Pure class! Oh man I really can't wait until the 24th!

CarefulNow

Great game. I can't wait to get it.

Spanish Guitar

All I can say is wow.

This has to be the most atmospheric game ever.

Pure brilliance.

This is a 360 game that does not disappoint.

johnny_ultimate

I am actually in a state of utter shock. That demo completely blew my mind. The graphics are without a doubt the best I have ever seen, the setpieces are jaw dropping, the combat intense as anything and the atmosphere pulls you in from the very start (

when those lights came on in the lighthouse, I just sat there gaping

. The demo alone had many fantastic moments - when I sent that first electro shock into the water... Wow.

I was thinking for a while that I was perhaps overhyping this, but no. 10 more long days until I get to play more of this.

Just stunning. Best five hours Ive ever spent downloading.

Qwertyboy

Simply Fantastic. Loved it. Strangely even tho its stalled 3 times I still had it in 3 hours I really like the way at the start of the demo theres the brightness test so it maximizes the crap-in-your-pants factor.

One thing tho i found it hard to pinpoint enemies in frantic situations, but i suppose thats part of the game :cool:

ciano1

had it downloading since 1pm and at 10 it was only at 66%...hopefully ill have better luck tomorrow

evad_lhorg

while its definitely not the most graphically amazing game it certainly is one of the most intense game ive played for a while. I was on edge all the way through.

grizzly

MHO;

PROS
Great artwork
Fantastically atmospheric
Lovely use of music
Brilliant physics

CONS
Repetitive combat
uninspiring weapons

Branoic

Couldn't believe when I was browsing the marketplace yesterday and saw the demo! And didn't have any trouble downloading it either.

Absolutely fantastic game - blew me away. Let all naysayers and cynics in that "other" BioShock thread be silenced!

0ubliette

McDermotX wrote:

Its gonna be good alright.....early print reviews from the likes of PC Gamer have placed the title right up in the upper echelons of recent gaming (95% etc )..

Lest we forget, PC Gamer gave doom3 90%. Not that ive anything against D3, i love that game, but just to put things into perspective.

I was downloading this for 4 1/2 hours yesterday and only got 52%, pain in the swiss roll.

WellyJ

evad_lhorg wrote:

while its definitely not the most graphically amazing game it certainly is one of the most intense game ive played for a while. I was on edge all the way through.

Eh.... What???

Name one title that looks better on the 360?

Nothing looks as good as this on the system sorry.

00sully

my dl stuck at 62% so i restarted and came down in about 3 hours last nite so not too bad!

graphically, maybe gears is better (COD4 probably will be). Its difficult to tell since its so dark but who cares when the atmosphere and setting is soooooooo good its gonna be one sweet game

WellyJ

00sully wrote:

my dl stuck at 62% so i restarted and came down in about 3 hours last nite so not too bad!

graphically, maybe gears is better (COD4 probably will be). Its difficult to tell since its so dark but who cares when the atmosphere and setting is soooooooo good its gonna be one sweet game

COD4 maybe,

Gears isn't even close though.

Vegeta

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

Looks like I wont get to play this until tomorrow at this rate. Ah well, it should be worth it! And I will get it on my birthday! Whooo!!

Happy birthday Zapp!

Zapp Brannigan

Vegeta wrote:

Happy birthday Zapp!

Thank ye, but I meant the full release is on my birthday. Hope you haven't sent the card already!

Vegeta

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

Thank ye, but I meant the full release is on my birthday. Hope you haven't sent the card already!

dam it, the strip-o-gram was already dispatched, he will not be pleased

Zapp Brannigan

Vegeta wrote:

dam it, the strip-o-gram was already dispatched, he will not be pleased

Not another one! :eek:

Batesy

Is Bioshock a 360 exclusive? Can't wait to get it meself. The demo is quality!!

Ri_Nollaig

PC and 360 so far, but because games cost so much to make it will probably be released on the ps3 at some point.

Fnz

Great demo. I'm hungry to find out more about Rapture and her noble peoples.

... and to kill those GM freaks... err... of which I am one.

Vegeta wrote:

dam it, the strip-o-gram was already dispatched, he will not be pleased

Just keep him sealed in the cake for another few days.

ntlbell

That guys Irish accent drove me up the wall, seemed to be very start/stop, graphically I don't think it's anything special.

all n all, I thought it sucked.