Seeing as how today is Halloween, I will be posting some reviews for games that I think fit the spirit of this holiday!

First up - Bioshock!

Now, why Bioshock you might ask? I am aware that it is not the scariest game around, but it sure is creepy.

Bioshock is definitely one of the most amazing games I have played. A game that's theme is choices, both in gameplay and in story.

The game begins with the main character, Jack, aboard a plane looking at a picture of his family... when suddenly the plane crashes into the ocean. He manages to escape the wreckage and is stranded in the middle of the ocean.

Then, off in the distance, Jack sees a structure that appears to be a tower in the middle of the ocean. The player then assumes control of Jack and swims to the tower. Stepping inside we are invited to step inside of a bathysphere. The one-man submarine plunges us into the ocean, where a see quite a strange sight. Not only do fish, sea turtles, and at one point a whale swim overhead, but a city stands at the bottom of the ocean. Upon gazing on the structures with neon lights advertising gas stations and restaurants, the player is struck with awe at such a fantasy come to life. The thought "how could this go wrong" has not even crossed our mind yet.

Once they bathysphere docks in the underwater city, however, we learn that nothing is right. The submerged city of Rapture, one man's dream of creating the ultimate land-of-the-free, has fallen to pieces.

Andrew Ryan, claiming to have created a utopia far from the so called "civilized world," has allowed his city to fall into utter chaos, becoming the polar opposite of his vision. The citizens of Rapture have spoken out against Ryan, as well as attempted to physically perfect themselves with genetic splicing, causing them to become disfigured and driven insane. Riots left the city destroyed, with only the insane now walking it's floors.

Jack, now the only sane human in Rapture, aside from Atlas who contacts him via radio and acts as his guide throughout the city, must wander the city alone and observe the brutal aftermath of a not so distant uprising. Armed at first with only a wrench, he must either fight his way through the demented splicers, or attempt to sneak past them.

Tell me that this isn't creepy...

Upon accumulating other weapons Jack will come across Big Daddies (men that have had their bodies forever grafted to heavy armor suites) always accompanied by the Little Sisters (young girls that have been genetically modified to collect ADAM, the source of genetic modification on Rapture) that they were created to protect. The player has the option to CHOOSE to take the Big Daddy down (it is always a tough fight) and either save or harvest the Little Sister. Of course, saving is the morally correct option, however harvesting grants more ADAM, which allows the player to upgrade faster (similar to the splicers...).

Eventually, Jack discovers Andrew Ryan as well as a horrible revelation. Atlas is truly Frank Fontaine, the man who engineered Rapture's downfall. Jack, who was created to obey any order as long as said order is followed by a certain set of words, has been doing Fontaine's dirty work. The words: "would you kindly?"

Jack was created to be mind controlled. He has no family. No memories that are true. Ryan is the one who had Jack created, however. Fontaine merely learned about his secret.

Ryan, realizing his ultimate failure that is Rapture, asks Jack to take a golf club and beat him to death, of course adding "would you kindly?" at the end.  He is rescued by Brigid Tenenbaum, a non-splicer who has been watching over the Little Sisters (mainly the ones that the player has saved... if they have). She is able to undo the mind control and with Ryan out of the picture, Jack sets off to gear up in Big Daddy armor and soon finds a now grossly genetically mutated Frank Fontaine.

Jack attempts to fight him, but is in the end no match for the brute. Now, this is where choices truly define the game. Jack has been a slave to choices since his inception. However, he has made a few of his own.

If the player saved the Little Sisters throughout the game, then all of them gang up on Fontaine and drain his ADAM, rendering him helpless and saving Jack. Jack then escapes Rapture with the Little Sisters and they live out their days together above the sea, and Jack dies knowing that he has the only thing he's ever wanted - a family.

If the little sisters were harvested by Jack, then, well... he dies, having no one to save him and Fontaine allows the splicers to flee Rapture and spread throughout the world... So choose wisely.

Remember, a man chooses, a slave obeys.