scary and fun
This is one of the scareist games I have ever played next to obscure the aftermath. It has a great story line that is easy to folow. It also has alot of cool enemys to fight like the big dady. you can also get cool powers like shooting fire out of your hands. This is a great game to bye if you like scary games.

Very Creative and Fun
This is one of the better xbox 360 games out there today. This game is very different and more creative then anything i have ever played and for that it deserves 5 stars. The gameplay is great combining upgradable weapons along with plasmids and the environments are soo amazingly detailed its unbelievable. Probably the best water graphics you will ever see in a videogame. Overall great game, sick story awesome graphics and good voice acting. Definatly worth your money.

Interesting and unique
I held off on playing this game for a year because I had read the reviews where it revealed that you can kill the little girls who collect ADAM. I found that revolting. I recently read more on the background of the game and it's being based on Ayn Rand's books and her philosophy of objectivism. My curiosity finally got the better of me and I decided to give it a try. I was impressed by the literate depth of the story and the unique and beautiful(but creepy) setting. There wasn't always much time to explore, but when I could, I enjoyed that.

For me, there were several weak points that diminished my enjoyment of the game. The first one, and this is entirely my subjective opinion, is that it was entirely too bloody and gory. It made me feel ill to hit a person with a wrench and have blood spatter everywhere. I was disappointed that there was no option to turn off the gore. I mainly play PC games and there is often a choice to turn off the gore--which I always do. For me, it doesn't add anything to the game whatsoever. Another problem was the constant dying, coming to in the Vita chamber and having to trudge back to my previous location, whack the Big Daddy a couple of times before dying again, then repeat endlessly. Very annoying. I also found cycling through weapons and plasmids awkward and often ending up with the wrong one. Another frustrating thing was that the game was very buggy in one of the sections and it often froze up or lagged really bad. Fortunately when I finished that section, it ran smoothly all the way to the end.

The great things about the game were the refreshing storyline and atmosphere, the intelligence of the story, which clearly showed the disastrous results of such a ruthless philosophy and the resulting dystopia or anti utopia. I liked the puzzles and the Vita Chambers(and I used them a great deal.) There were unexpected twists and turns in the game that were not predictable and I like that.

Overall, they did a great job with this game, but I really do wish they would let me choose to turn off the gore like Far Cry and some of the older Star Wars games. I only went with one ending and that was the one where I saved the little girls, so I can't comment on alternate endings, but I was pleased with my ending.

This game is very good, but definitely not for children, the squeamish, or easily shocked husbands who don't play video games.

I wish I could find other games like this!
I don't have tons of time to memorize 4000 button combinations and practice crazy complex team management commands and strategies and stuff. When I play games, I just want to play and I want it to be interesting. I don't want to have to read and memorize some gigantic manual.

This game was so fun to play and was a pleasure to play. Crazy addictive.

game of the year
This mind-blowing game is a thinking person's hybrid shooter and one of the greatest I've ever played. It has a deep, compelling, and unique story that I didn't want to end. I love the retro atmosphere and the graphics are amazing. There's lots of things to do within the lengthy timespan of the game so if you like finding things you'll be in heaven with Bioshock. My few complaints are that it's hard to aim effectively and difficult to use cover but this isn't a game where those things are really important. Also, one ending is much better than other (save the girls).