{"id":144,"date":"2007-08-16T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/bioshock-demo-impressions\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:46:00","slug":"bioshock-demo-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/bioshock-demo-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"BioShock Demo Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/2007\/193\/931329_20070713_screen003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/2007\/193\/931329_20070713_screen003.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I know I&#8217;m about to get flamed for this, but I&#8217;ll not be getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F2K-Games-BioShock%2Fdp%2FB000MKA60W%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1187279461%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=jighcsranrev-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">BioShock<\/a>.  Before trying the demo I was not planning on playing it and now that I have tried it I&#8217;m still not planning to play it.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think it looks beautiful.  It is some of the best look water and lighting I&#8217;ve seen in a video game.  My issue with it is with the game play.  I&#8217;m not really into the whole dark, hope when you go around a corner you don&#8217;t get hit in the back before you can respond, shooter.  I like both run-n-gun shooters and tactical, strategy based shooters.  This is neither.   I was not even going to bother with the demo because I did not think I would like the game, but everyone was raving about how great it was so I gave it a try.  I will say if you&#8217;re looking for a shooter that is different than most of the stuff out there then BioShock is worth a look. Just be ready for a dark gritty game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m about to get flamed for this, but I&#8217;ll not be getting BioShock. Before trying the demo I was not planning on playing it and now that I have tried it I&#8217;m still not planning to play it. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think it looks beautiful. It is some of the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,5],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}