03.05.2007 NEW BIOSHOCK GAMEPLAY TRAILER
This new trailer shows us a lot of what Irrational Games has been working on in BioShock. The majority of the seven minute video is just one battle against a single "big daddy" enemy. You have to outwit the guardian of the little girl by doing more than just aiming and shooting, a speaker at the start of the clip talks you through what special items are involved in slaying the beastly looking scuba diver. The blood and fire particle effects look decent, but my favorite part is how well they worked shadows into the underwater environment. The translucent lighting combined with a creepy little girl who drinks blood makes me think the game will be a mix between Myst's setting and Silent Hill's gameplay. Irrational Games has done a great job keeping the story pretty mysterious, I plan on picking this up as soon as it comes out to see if it'll live up to the hype. The video ends with a narrator telling you that you'll have to make the choice between saving yourself or saving everyone else, so hopefully there will be a bunch of branching paths in the story and a few different endings for more interesting replayability than your typical shooting game.