Bioshock: First Impressions

Today I finally chucked Bioshock into my 360's disc drive for the first time.

I know, I know...like a year after it first came out...in fact, almost a year since I received it, which was last Christmas, but I've barely had time to game at all this year so it just sat on my shelf squished in between a couple of Avril Lavigne CDs and Viva Pinata.

Also, in case I haven't mentioned this enough, I suck at shooters. In fact, I am still on level two of Gears of War. My manager bought a 360 console three days ago with Gears and in less than 72 hours he's ALMOST FINISHED IT.

This is how much I suck.

Anyway...so I popped it in and sat through the opening bit, and was quite uninspired by the blocky cartoony graphics in the first five seconds in the plane...and then the plane crashed and there was fire on the water everywhere and I was blown away by the sparkles and the light dancing off the water surface.

And then I heard a pained scream as I accidentally swam my character into a wall of fire.

I only played for an hour so I'm still only at the Medical Pavilion- which I suppose is Level Two, or The-Level-After-the-Introductory-Level. The whole concept is just fascinating and the artwork and advertising is really really amazing but I am very very freaked out.

I haven't battled a Big Daddy and a Little Sister yet but I've seen them harvesting from the safety of a high beam.

And yup...still freaked out.

Favourite moment so far is finding a pool of water with two Splicers standing in it and using my electroshocky plasmid and frying everything in it.

Childish giggling ensued.

But not the kind of creepy Little Sister giggling...*shudder*

The Trouble With FPS

You may have heard me whine a lot on this blog about how much I suck at FPS.

Now, here is further proof!

I had a spare hour today to start Rainbow Six Vegas on my 360. I know it's a shooter so I probably shouldn't have bought it, but it was only $25 and hey, you blow up shit in a casino. Who hasn't ever wanted to leap onto the blackjack tables at Crown with an AK-47?

Anyway...here I was, happily trotting into a Mexican alleyway with my very large gun, when I reach a doorway. It happens to be one of the doorways that I can't open, since at this point in the tutorial I have not learnt the dubious joys of Snake Cam- but thinking this is Gears of War, I try to smash the door down with one meaty fist.

Except this does nothing. This is not Gears of War.

So I press the pretty little circle button on my controller.

A merry tinkling sound ensues as a teeny little round grenade thing drops at my feet.

Daphne has two seconds to go, "Oh...shit," before the grenade explodes in spectacular fashion at my feet and the whole world goes red.

Game over.

Whoops.