Oh.My.God.

I have just finished playing the Bioshock demo. Out on Xbox Live this am, the servers were so hammered that it took me 13 hours to download the 1.35gig demo, something that normally takes about 40 minutes.

And man was it worth it! Bioshock is a shooter, a FPS to be exact. Bringing nothing new to the table whatsoever: Guns, Magic (or genetics as it calls it), even hacking devices and turrets is old territory. What it does have though is AMAZING atmosphere! It recreates a 60's utopia like nothing before it, really giving the underwater city a feeling that it was once a great place. Now turned in to hell. Everything has character, every single detail in the game has been meticulously crafted. And nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING has been overlooked. I spent ages reading the posters and adverts from when people lived in Rapture.

Add to that the great graphics (Unreal Engine 3), and really good sound (period music, freaky sounds, conversations overheard, people muttering to themselves, and of course the "little sisters" babbling or singing nursery rhymes while they suck the blood out of a corpse-all VERY unsettling!) and this is a game that has the potential of being the best shooter, setting a landmark for all future games.

Half Life 2 move over. Your time as best FPS is over. Bioshock is here to stay.

Full game out 24/08/07 (PC/360). Get it. You owe it to yourselves.