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Bioshock Demo

Well I stayed up quite late last night to play the demo on my 360, and it was worth it. I think I started the download around midnight and got it done around 2 am or so. It was one of the longest demo downloads I have recently done, I assume due to the high ammounts of hits the demo was getting.

Anyways, about the demo. It was visually impressive, and fun to play. I would not say that the gameplay was hard, but rather challenging. But then again it was only a demo, so perhaps in the full game things may get hard. As for the gameplay it was neat to use both left and right hands of the character to perform combat actions. The only thing that felt a bit odd was shooting the guns. Not sure what it was exactly but for an FPS on console it felt natural to play but the visual feedback perhaps was not as responsive to the actual button input. Or perhaps it’s just my feeling since I played it during the early hours of the day. Need to play it again tonight.

I am quite sure I’ll get this game, but not on console. I’ll get it for PC, becuase that is why I built it is to play new games this fall.