![]() ![]() THEMATIC DEPTH: M is about a child murderer. Bioshock has over 20! BIOSHOCK IS THE CLEAR WINNER. VALUE FOR MONEY: M has a running time of around 2 hours. Bioshock also has no sharks, but its underwater setting makes their lack evident. SHARKS: M is set in Berlin, and features no sharks. She's eerily lumpy in person but nevertheless represents a CLEAR WIN FOR BIOSHOCK. Bioshock, leaving firmly aside the deliberately queasy presexuality of the Little Sisters, has Dr Tenenbaum, who smokes languidly and looks sort of pretty in the radio mugshot. NECK AND NECK.ĬHEAP TITILLATION: M is entirely unerotic throughout. GERMANS: Bioshock contains exactly one German, quasi-war-criminal Dr Tenenbaum. M has more variety in gameplay than Bioshock's combat and hacking. In Bioshock, when you die, you resurrect painlessly. Bioshock is a giant box of toys, with upgradable plasmids and a myriad of combat tactics, but it gets repetitive. The resource management model is nonexistent. GAMEPLAY: The combat mechanics in M leave much to be desired. Bioshock is, moreover, a skinned XBox port of System Shock II. So does Bioshock, not least in its enthusiastic reinvention of specific shots from Murnau's Nosferatu. INNOVATION: M was only the tail-end of a epoch. M's soundtrack has the underwater quality of a last-but-three-generations production. NECK AND NECK.ĪUDIO: M has a striking score and a memorable leitmotif. M is stunning, but only in black and white. M AHEAD.ĬINEMATOGRAPHY: Bioshock is stunning: New York in sepulchral aquarium light. ![]() Bioshock is a last-year's-game that will run well on an aging gaming rig. PERFORMANCE: M was produced in 1931 and will run on anything. A predator stalks a twilight city, driven by unrelenting internal demons to hunt down children. M and Bioshock, the last great flowerings of German expressionism. (Alternative title: Alexis will do anything to skive off rejigging cashflow projections.) ![]()
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