Bioshock, the Game of the Year?
2K Games’ recent blockbuster at the top of the charts after just a month of its release.
Things are looking good for 2K Games(ex Irrational Games, creators of the critically acclaimed System Shock series) with their latest game release. Bioshock promised a lot through timed screens, tech trailers and the highly-acclaimed demo, and boy! did it deliver!
The facts (so far):
- nr.1 (360 version) and nr.4 (PC version) in Australia sales charts.
- nr.1 overall in British sales charts.
- an overall rating of 96/100 (!) at Metacritic (for those that don’t know it, Metacritic automatically calculates an average of the most important reviews on the web), based on 25 reviews.
- an impressive #1 in both “Top Rated” and “Best Sellers” categories on Steam (Valve’s electronic game distribution system, www.steampowered.com).
It is interesting to note that almost 88 percent of the entire sales have been achieved by the Xbox 360 version; this could mean, at least on a short term, a substantial increase in 360 sales. On a side note, this also reflects the rather poor state of the PC games market in view of the booming console market.
Personally, I think that Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament, Bungie’s Halo 3 or Blizzard’s Starcraft 2 (not likely to come out this year, but I believe in miracles), are the only games due this year that stand a chance of dethroning Bioshock in both sales and positive reviews, but in view or recent developments, they have a tough fight ahead of them.