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Yes.

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Incredibly good!

As a shooter? Okay
As a first person adventure game with shooting and stuff and social commentary and style? Outstanding :)

Bioshock is the kind of game every little game wants to be like when they grow up.

I have played few months ago, not exactly a FPS, more an first-person-adventure, you shoot enemies, listen to a few tapes with stories, and collect adam. Looks generical, because it kinda is, but I believe the story hides some deep shit. I don't know, since I gave up few hours later.

If you're looking for a challenging game, no. Even on the harder difficulties it's pretty easy. However, the story and atmosphere is one of the best ever in a game. Unfortunately, the Remastered Edition apparently broke a lot of things. Buying it will give you the old versions though, so I recommend playing those.

I truly don't know why people drool over this series.
The setting was great, but everything else was mediocre to just bad.
The optimization is complete horseshit, the combat's barely ok and the story in most part is pretty uninteresting. Not to mention the level designs that are sometimes just maze-like.

There are good parts to the game, for sure, but otherwise... It's just ok.

1 is OK. 2 is MEH. 3 is hell of a crap.

System shock yeah but Bio....

I would not go as far as to say that they are masterpieces, but they are good games. And if you enjoy them, check out the games that inspired them. I personally find System Shock 2 to be better than Bioshock, despite its age (System Shock 1, well, not so much. I like it, but it has not aged nearly as well, mostly due to the controls).

Stupid question is stupid.

Bioshock is not "good".

Bioshock is "fantastic".

it's "ok" tbh, a bit overhyped, HL is masterpiece, Bio is ok

The first Bioshock is one of few games that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Some people love it, some don't, but I think every "gamer" should at least give it a try at some point.

The Bioshock games are amazing. My personal favorite is 2 (don't kill me please) followed by Infinite then 1. Definitely worth your time to play all of them.

Good artistic design and the soundtrack is not bad...

I know some people will hate me for it, but I was only able to enjoy Bioshock when I stopped listening to the tapes. I don't know, they're just not my thing. The first time I tried the game I was decided to listen to all of them, but I stopped midway through because I just didn't have any interest in the game. After a few years I came back and said "screw it", and just skipped through the tapes. Good game with great atmosphere and plot.

I've been playing adventure games for 20 years, but it was only about a year ago when I finally started experimenting with other genres again. It turnes out that I enjoy RPGs with high quality narrative as much as good point-and-click. So the question is: would Bioshock be a good place to give a chance to the FPS genre? The last one I've played was Doom 2, I think :)

I remember the first time I played Bioshock I too was not too amazed (granted, it was the x360 version and I had trouble with controller aiming for some reason), later on when I gave a second shot on the PC I loved it. Great story great atmosphere, the only downside I'd give is that by the end the enemies turn into quite the bullet sponges even with upgraded weaponry, which made some fights drag out (but not more challange as you can't really die).
Bioshock2 was good as well, though it was not as good as the first, granted I did not play minerva's den which everyone regards pretty highly (I have had it for a while, might go back to it)
Infinite also has an interesting setting, though the story is not as awesome but there are a few things that will make you wonder about stuff so long story short I liked it as well. Unfortunately, bullet spongy things happen there as well by the second half.

However good it is, it's still no System Shock.