21st August

Another brick in the wall I guess. Today was an average day with nothing really spectacular happening, as my self written horoscope predicted there wouldn’t be. Instead of going on about big issues I'm gonna talk about a smaller one. See… theres this game I've been looking forward to getting for ages now, indeed well over a year, and it comes out on Friday. The game looks amazing, and the story seems quite good too. Heres a summary for you interest:

Bioshock

It’s the 60s. After your plane crashes in the Atlantic ocean, you swim and find a lighthouse nearby, with a submarine type vehicle inside it. You climb into the vehicle and are taken below the surface. It takes you to rapture.

Rapture is a city, a mile under the sea; built by the rich and powerful, a world where normal rules were deemed a hindrance and cast aside, as man sought to better himself. Artists were freed from the censor, science freed from morality. Life became better, new forms of art and expression dominated, and soon science was making unstoppable headway into genetic engineering. You could buy genetic upgrades to make yourself faster, smarter, and even more attractive.

And soon science could not be stopped.

As the people changed their bodies to their own desire, or even the latest fashions, they lost parts of their identity, parts of their mind. The glamorous art-deco corridors and buildings are full of debris, and deranged monsters. There are little girls walking around with their metal tank-like “daddies”, monsters of iron, with a fist on one hand, the other a 2 foot drill. The mastermind of the city is still controlling everything, and to top it all off, the water is coming back through the cracks of the falling city, to claim the space again.

In order to survive you must conquer these enemies, and you aren’t going to be able to do it without re-engineering yourself, without changing part of your soul.

It sounds exciting doesn’t it? Well it would be, but it doesn’t work on my computer very well at all. I downloaded the demo, and it is good, but it’s not really playable. I waited ages for it and now it wont work for me. That’s not a good feeling. What is, though, is that a lot of others are having problems too. Lots of problems, so hopefully the game-making people are going to make some changes for the better for me! They better or I wont buy the full thing. And I know they would be ashamed if Chris Drinkall didn’t like it!