When I think of BioShock, I have to wipe away pages of forum nit-picking and genuinely bitter pub-based rows before I can even start thinking about, at its best, how clever and elegant it is and how on its own grounds it makes everything else released in this incredible year for videogames distinctly second-rate. I'm also aware that perhaps the intensity of discourse around the game had something to do with it. You see, I was surprised to find BioShock's not my favourite game of the year. That I haven't done so yet saddens me a little. People bought it on the strength of the reviews (and the hype - always, the hype) and then, when this random selection of gamers played it and compared their response to the ejaculate-smeared reviews, a larger proportion went "I don't think so" and pointed at the flaws.īut a game having flaws doesn't mean the emperor has no clothes, and the prevalent forum attitude to BioShock has wandered so far away from its merits to require a stern riposte. In other words, a BioShock backlash was inevitable as it's new. There's much to hate in both games, but their fans simply don't care and those who aren't fans will never throw away forty quid for something that isn't to their taste. If you can't choke down the saccharine standard Mario world or aren't convinced that Halo's combat mechanics are anywhere near as elegant as its devotees make them out, you're highly unlikely to play them. Everyone, to a lesser or greater degree, has made up their minds already. You'll note, bar minor sniping, their status hasn't been questioned anywhere near as much as the adventures of a man with a wrench in Rapture's.
In terms of Metacritic average, its only peers are Super Mario Galaxy and Halo 3. BioShock is amongst the most critically acclaimed games of the year.
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