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THE CRACKS FOR BIOSHOCK

Cheats to get Free Health Packs

You can get the health packs without spending 10$ by smashing the machines with the help of your wrench after which 1 to 3 health packs will fall on the floor so that you can take them for free.

Unlock for the  Good Ending / Bad Ending

The game has 2 endings that are dependant on the way you treat the little sisters. If you “harvest” one little sister or more then you get the bad ending and of you “harvest” a single little sister and “save” the others then you get the good ending.

Hint for the Big Daddy Battle

To doing this, one has to hypnotize the Big Daddy Plasmid first as well as the Natural Camouflage Tonic which can be done by using the Hypnotize Big Daddy Plasmid on a Big Daddy so that he mistakes you for a little sister and starts to protect you. For the fun and adventure, find another big daddy and attack him, when he will attack you in return, your big daddy will kill him to protect you.

Hint for the Sander Cohen

Sander Cohen is a crazy artist who is found in the middle of the game after that level, you have the option to kill him or leave him to his fate. In case you choose to kill him then you will be deprived of the Achievement “Find Cohen’s Room.” Go to the Cohen’s room where if he is alive then two Splicers will dance in the room with Cohen looking at them from his locked private room. You have to kill the Splicers leading to the Cohen coming to fight; thereby letting you unlock the door and earn this Achievement.

Hint for the Big Daddy Kills

You should use an armor-piercing round while fighting with the Big Daddy because they deal a high degree of damage.

Hint for Security Drone Manipulation

Using the blast of the Electric Shock Plasmid for disabling the security drones before doing any other thing in a room. Then, you have to reach up to them within the time of five seconds and hack them as soon as possible.

Hint for the Big Daddy Kills II

After getting the Grenade Launcher and the Proximity Mines, you should try to find a red fuel tank covering it with 6 Proximity Mines. Then the Telekinesis should be used to pick the explosive device and hit it at a Big Daddy leading to a massive damage.

Hint for the Telekinesis Drop

At the time you use the Telekinesis Plasmid, you should drop the item in your hand instead of throwing it for which you will have to have an item in hand. Pick any item selecting the Telekinesis Plasmid. Continuously hold them using the LT button without letting go of the button. Press the RB button when you are ready to drop the item so that the weapons menu opens up and in between leave the LT button. The item falls onto your feet as you leave the button. If it is not done correctly then the item will be thrown far and you will have to find it all around.

Hint for the Quick Reloads

At the time of shooting wither the crossbow or the grenade launcher, you have the ability to reload by pressing the left trigger and then the right trigger letting you shoot without waiting for the reload of the weapon.

Hint for the Big Daddy Kills III

You can use the Electric Buck switching between it and the Electro Bolt Plasmid after every few seconds.

Hint for the Big Daddy Kills IV

After getting the Dart Gun, use the Electrical Trap Darts lining down a hall or near the Big Daddy with the path he undertakes fully covered after which you should shoot the Big Daddy gaining his attention and keeping him run towards you where he will run into each dart, thereby killing himself.

Hint for the Big Daddy Kills V

After getting the Trap Bolts for the Crossbow, you have to give yourself 20 feet, shooting the Trap Bolts letting them hang between you and the path the Big Daddy would undertake after which you will have to shoot another weapon at the Big Daddy to gain its attention and make it run after you making him stumble on the Bolts and die.

Hint for the Easy Splicer Kills

Using the Telekinesis to hit the body at others in the area will help you easily kill the Splicer resulting in a single hit kill.

Hint for the Power to the People Station Locations

The Power to the People stations are mentioned used to garner weapon upgrades:

• Pt. Prometheus – Atrium

• Pt. Prometheus – Optimized Eugenics

• Apollo Square – Hestia (4th Floor)

• Arcadia – Tree Farm

• Fort Frolic – Le Marquis D’Epoque

• Hephaestus – Across from Gatherer’s Garden

• Olympus Heights – Fontaine’s Apartment (opposite side)

• Olympus Heights – Sander Cohen’s Private Chambers

• Farmer’s Market – Winery Cellar (Bottom Floor)

• Fort Frolic – Sinclair’s Spirits (Basement)

• Hephaestus – Kyburz’s Office

• Neptune’s Bounty – Freezer (Bottom Floor)

THE UNBEATABLE SALES OF BIOSHOCK

The version of Xbox 360 of Bioshock was third best-selling game of August 2007 that sold around 490,900 copies. Till 5th of June, 2008 the game had shipped over 2.2 million copies and over a million copies sold for the PC version till 10th of June 2007.

CATCH THEM BEFORE THEY POOF

The developers of the game wanted to introduce a special edition of the game if the signatures of the authority reached 500 which was done within the limit of 5 hours. They then conducted a poll on the website asking the viewers what features they would want in the game and what it lacked so that all that could be renewed in the game. On the 23rd of April, 2007 the Cult of Rapture website announced the Limited Collector’s Edition that came with a 6-inch/150 mm Big Daddy figurine, a “Making Of” DVD and also a soundtrack CD which was before its release replaced by the Rapture EP.

THE SOUNDTRACK

The soundtrack was released on the official homepage of 2K games on the 24th of August, 2007 which is available in an MP3 format composed by Garry Schyman having around 12 out of the 22 tracks.

The Rapture EP composed by Moby and Oscar The Punk had its remixes including the three tracks of “Beyond the Sea,” “God Bless the Child” and “Wild Little Sisters”.

The phonographs are seen in the in game play which include music from the year of 1940s and 1950s as the background. The game has a total of 30 songs.

NOW INTRODUCING- THE BOOK AND THE FILM OF BIOSHOCK

BioShock has released its book on the 13th of August 2007 named BioShock: Breaking the Mold consisting of the artwork available in low as well as the high resolution in PDF format.

For the film, it is expected having the green screen filming technique for recreating Rapture’s environments. The game is expected have Gore Verbinski as the director who has earlier, directed Pirates of the Caribbean and The Ring and John Logan as the writer who earlier has worked with Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and is rumored to be released in the Summer of the year 2010.

HAVE A PEEK AT THE ENGINE OF THE GAME

BioShock uses the engine of Tribes, Vengeance game engine which is a modified Unreal Engine 2.5. BioShock’s MS Windows version uses a Direct3D 10 card that has the best features. Then the game BioShock comes with Havoc Physics that is another engine for enhancing the physics, integration of rag doll and lets you see more of the movements of the creatures in the environment.

BioShock is considered as a multithreaded game as it runs on the following:

 Rendering (1 thread)

 Physics (3 threads on Xenon, at least one on PC)

 Simulation Update (1 thread)

 UI update (1 thread)

 Texture streaming (1 thread)

 File streaming (1 thread)

 Audio state update (1 thread)

 Audio processing (1 thread)

GET UPDATED HERE

The Xbox 360 version of the game was updated on the 6th of September 2007 which was improvement in the general stability of the game at the time of loading the auto save, the update changed the way enemies used their health stations and the last one was fixing an audio glitch. One could very easily download the update automatically when they started the game next. The update however has led to many in game problems for which it had been criticized like the occasional freezing of the game, bad frame rates and certain other audio issues which can be corrected by the user as it is related to the caching of the game.

Another update was released on the 4th of December 2007 for the Xbox 360 version and the MS Windows version.

THE VARIOUS OTHER VERSIONS AND SEQUELS

The game is expected to have a sequel which will be released in the holiday season of 2009. The release of the game BioShock 3 is also expected which would probably be released at the time of the release of the film of the Bioshock. The sequel to the game will be titled BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams which will be a part of the prequel as well as a sequel.

THE REVIEWS OF THE GAME

1UP.com gave the game an A+

Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it a full 10 on 10

Euro gamer gave it another 10 on 10

Game Informer also gave it a 10 on 10

Game Spot gave the game a 9 on 10

Game Trailers gave it 9.5 on 10

IGN gave it 9.7 on 10

Official Xbox Magazine gave it a 10 on 10

PC Gamer UK gave it the aggregate score of 95%

PC Zone gave it a 96%

Game Rankings gave the Xbox 360 version of the game 95% and the PC version 95%

Met critic gave the Xbox 360 version of the game 96%  and the PC version 96%

Moby Games gave the Xbox 360 version 95% and the PC version 94%

The game also received many Awards:

Spike TV gave it the Best Game of 2007

BAFTA gave it the Best Game of 2007

X-Play gave it the Game of the Year of 2007

IGN gave it the PC Game of the Year of 2007

At the conference of E3 for 2007, BioShock got the award of the “Game of the Show”. At the Leipzig Games Convention, the game was given the award if the “Best Xbox 360 Game”.

The game got a few criticism like the recovery system of the “Vita-Chambers,” that do not have the capability to change the health of the enemy to wear down enemies and having a flaw in the game play. IGN pointed the controls and the graphics being little backward of the Xbox 360 version as compared to the PC version.