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PC BioShock demo incoming
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 20th August 2007
The BioShock PC demo will be available at 11:00 GMT tonight, so get your downloads ready.
If you've got an Xbox 360 then the chances are that you're nodding your head here, agreeing that BioShock really is the best game since Jenga was first invented. If you're more of a hardcore PC gamer though, then you'll be silently weeping and lamenting the fact that you still haven't had a chance to play the demo.
Well, come 11:00 PM GMT (or 7:00PM EDT, if you prefer) you will no longer have to cry those tears of BioShock-deprived misery. The PC demo will officially be landing later tonight.
Even better, the demo won't be the same as the 360 demo. Well, actually yes, it will be the same but apparently one of the plasmids is in a slightly different location. Still, it's more than enough reason for 360 gamers to download the PC version too!
All we care about though is whether the dead cat is still there, hidden in a corner about half-way in.
If you've been living under a rock for the past four or five years, or if you're just new to this whole games business, then you should know that BioShock is the brand new FPS/RPG hybrid from 2K Boston. The game casts players as a man whose plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean is only the start of an adventure into a massive underwater city called Rapture, where genetic tampering has pushed the citizens to war.
Our full coverage of the game, covering two reviews (one gameplay, one hardware) will be coming within the next day or two. If you still haven't managed to get your head around the game's story though, then you may want to use our multi-format, hands-on preview to get up to speed.
The demo will doubtlessly be all over the internet, but eager-beavers may want to keep an eye on the official website
Which version of the game will you be picking up, or do you think the whole thing is just hyperbole and over-excitement? Let us know in the forums.
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Wooo! get it now!
Seems to be down for me.
Bugger.
I've been a little out of the BioShock news, what are the minimum and recommended specs?
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single Core processor
System RAM: 1GB
Video Card: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).
Sound Card: 100% direct X 9.0c compatible sound card
Hard disc space: 8GB free space
Recommended;
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
System RAM: 2GB
Video card:
DX9: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better)
DX10: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better
Sound Card: Sound Blaster® X-Fi series (Optimized for use with Creative Labs EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0 or EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 compatible sound cards)
Ooooo thanks, getting it now :D
I'm a bit worried about the recommended graphics card tbh, mine has just 256mb so hope it won't make too much difference.
I can run it with everything on high at 1280x1024, except actors at medium, vsync off, and high detail post processing off...
All things considered it runs great and looks great.
http://chonnom0.filezaru.com/BioShockPCDemo.zip
~700KB/s
Nice thanks. I'm getting about 300KB/s and at 32% so not bad atall. Looking forward to it now:)
Really?
That's excellent news.
grabbing it now, thanks :D
getting about 80-100kbps atm
will try mirror it for yall :)
will repost when done.
Pretty good mirror of the demo there :)
shame my pc isn't actually good enough to run it :(
241.1KB/sec (my connection's max speed :() 2 hours to go.
Excellent mirror, I could only get about 20KB/sec from other sites.
Oh, and mad respect for the avatar.
I've actually just installed it and despite me worrying about my pc's specs, it runs admirably.
AMD64 3200+ Venice, 2Gb OCZ Platinum, XFX 7800GT OC and it runs fine, maybe not seamless, but definitely 20fps+.
I'm upgrading to a C2D with 8800 at the end of the month, will lap this game up then :)
VM has already capped me, *******s.
lol scratch that, the one thats complete is broken
the other is nearly done though :\
i was getting about 40-50fps with an oc'd x1900xt and 4400+
1280 and everything on high
couldnt see any AA/AF settings so i assume they were off
Performance is fantastic, practically no slowdown at maximum settings, 1680x1050 on C2D E6600 (stock) and 2x 7900GTs in SLI.
The graphics aren't quite as good as I expected, though (some sharp polygonal edges to objects that should be rounded), which is the fair tradeoff, I guess - except for the water effects, which are stunning.
The foley/SFX, music and overall sound production of the game is some of the best I've heard in years from a game - very satisying SFX.
I'm undecided on the gameplay of it, though - It seems a little uninspiring and too action-oriented for my tastes.
Though I knew it wouldn't be a new System Shock, a little part of me is terribly disappointed that it doesn't seem to have the gameplay depth of SS2 (Inventory please) and it's a bit frustrating that things like hacking turrets and throwing objects are still being lauded as incredible gameplay innovations, but I'll hold back final judgement on the gameplay mechanics until I play the full game.
I just get the feeling that it's yet another "dumbed-down for the Xbox generation" game - Makes me think of Deus Ex: Invisible War, though it'd be insulting to liken BioShock to that atrocity.
'Streamlining' is what I think they call it..
There's no save in either the PC or Xbox 360 demo, but there definitely is in the game. :)
Looking forward to receiving the Collector's Edition in the post on release day.
http://www.gamedaily.com/games/bioshock/pc/game-downloads/bioshock-demo/4903/7007?ncid=AOLGAM000500000000020
Getting about 5mb/s from here
lol, complete in under 10mins \o/