Product Description

Can You Survive a Madman’s Utopia?

 

You are a cast-away in Rapture, an underwater Utopia that has been torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces, and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, you have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters.

 

Comprehensive Walkthrough

Horror is waiting around every corner; use this guide to survive unscathed. Learn how to fend off the Splicers, bring down the Big Daddies, and overcome the lunatics that populate the underwater metropolis of Rapture.

 

Illustrated Maps

Discover the best route to each of your objectives and learn the location of every safe, secret, and enhancement that this strange world holds.

 

Evolve Today

Uncover the secret powers of plasmids and unlock your genetic potential. With these genetic mutations you can shock, freeze, and incinerate enemies, use telekinesis to move objects, and enrage foes to make them fight against each other.

 

U-Invent

Use our guide to create valuable upgrades to all of your weapons.

 

Exclusive Foldout

An exclusive poster features art from the game and a full list of Xbox 360 achievements on the reverse.

 

Platform: Xbox 360 and PC

Genre: Shooter

This product is available for sale worldwide.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77634 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

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Customer Reviews

A great strategy guide for a great game
Bioshock is a videogame masterpiece. This strategy guide is complete and will help you if you are lost or want to know the best way to survive in Rapture.

Pretty Good
It is a fun game, though the final boss is the easiest part of the game. I could not bring myself to play it a second time to get the few achievements I'd missed. Even changing the difficulty does not do more than affect how fast you kill and are killed. The surprise 3/4 of the way through was great, though the ensuing battle is on autopilot. Being able to hack the automatic defenses around town to use against the bad guys adds some interesting strategy against the infinite stream of evildoers. That was the most annoying part for me, to be sent back to a rez chamber (thankful that damage on enemies persists when you die) only to find an enemy right outside the chamber who esnds you right back in. Second most annoying is when you die while firing a weapon and you just keep on firing and wasting ammo against the chamber door when you come back to life. There is an option to turn the chambers off with a download, but I never did.

Focuses on how NOT to give answers
This is the offcial guide to one of the greatest video games in years. Unfortunately, it seems they focused on how NOT to give answers as much as possible. It is full of hints, but hardly any answers. If you want to pay money for a book to get hints and clues to the answers, then this book does its job. If you want the answers (such as the combinations to locks) then try the internet.

It even does not give a good summary of the storyline. I have found the Wiki's version of the story to be much more comprehensive.

The book provides good illustration of the game. It provides some good advice, such as the 5 best Plasmids and how one should spend the money at the Circus of Values. Other than that, its clues are very skimpy and even stingy. For example, I have tried to obtain the keys to the Chomper's Dental for many hours. This book merely says to look for it using newfound plasmid (Telekinesis) in the Dandy's Dental. It wasn't helpful.

I suggest using the internet as the guide, and not this book, which annoyingly tries to be cryptic and give as few answers as possible to the paying reader.