Thoughts on finishing bioshock (xbox 360)

I recently bought Bioshock for the xbox 360. It's already been out a while so I was able to pick up a copy for £10, which is a bargain for a next-gen game.

Bioshock is only the third game i've ever played on my xbox 360 so the next-gen charm is still fresh to me, and this game is full of it. Everything about Bioshock oozes next-gen, the graphics, the sound and the control is state of the art, and teh sci-fi atmoshpere really hooked me... at first.

Yeah, I had fun with this game but ultimately I spent the whole time thinking 'whats the point?'.

The story is revealed in short radio conversations... the only problem with this is that half the time whilst your trying to listen to the radio message you'll be being attacked and won't be able to understand a word thats being said to you. And there is a way to play back these messages, but you're never expilicitly told about it, and I only found it by accident later on.

In an effort to be able to decipher these messages the first time their played I put on the subtitles... which were horribly bad. Half the time the messages will be displayed long enough to be read but are NEVER in time. Once or twice the wrong subtitles came up entirely, or half way through a radio conversation I'd walk into a different scene and the subtitles would vanish all together.

Yeah.

But anyway, relating back to the title of this blog.
I finished the game earlier on today. I sat back and got ready for a nice long video scene explaining everything that had happened durign the game and clearing up any loose ends. Imagine my surprise when all I got was 40 second montage of the little sisters growing up and blah-de-blah.

Seriously. When a game has a confusing story, you can't end it by just leaving the player with more questions. Assassins creed, the first game I played on my 360 did this too, but in a much worse way... (I was utterly convinced that I hadn't finished the game until I checked gamefaqs and found out there was nothing else left to do, besides collect a load of flags, which in my opinion is the most lame attempt at artificially increasing a games length ever).

My play time must have been between 10-20 hours, but im not sure of the exact time.
So it's kept me entertained for a fair amount of time.

Next up: Lost Odyssey