BioShock scares up GOTY honor from AP

by Dustin Burg { Dec 17th 2007 at 12:00PM }

BioShock, BioShock, BioShock ... you successful little monster you. The Associated Press just came out with their annual best and worst video game honors and lo and behold, you've taken the top title as their game of the year. Halo 3, Rock Band or The Orange Box couldn't take your GOTY title, instead they had to settle for "Most Overrated Game", "Best Game That Involves Getting Off the Sofa" and "Best Deal" awards. You have proven yourself to be this year's diamond BioShock, this year's crowning achievement in video game storytelling, immersion and appeal that the industry needs. And you've been rewarded. Congratulations.

[Via The Cult of Rapture]

Tags: 2k-boston, 2k-games, bioshock, irrational-games

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gemini Ace @ Dec 17th 2007 12:13PM

I disagree!

erivera3 @ Dec 17th 2007 12:14PM

What a joke, I disagree completely with almost every choice they made.

Leatherface @ Dec 17th 2007 12:19PM

BioShock is definitely GOTY for me, but to be honest there hasn't been all that much competition.

Knuckles Dawson @ Dec 17th 2007 12:19PM

Ah, my influence is ever present, with "raWr", complete with capital "W".

Dustin Burg @ Dec 17th 2007 12:40PM

raWr

Knuckles Dawson @ Dec 17th 2007 1:21PM

Maybe, in time, you'll start actually using commas properly with consistency. ;)

TORO @ Dec 17th 2007 12:27PM

Bioshock would definitely not win the "longevity" award ;)

But I guess it makes sense since the award IS for this year only

xenocidic @ Dec 17th 2007 12:32PM

haha halo 3 "most over-rated" well played, AP, well played.

p.s. I hate to say 'I told you so' ;> [re Bioshock GOTY]

PilgrimXX @ Dec 17th 2007 12:41PM

Last time I checked Bioshock is not available on the PS3.

AFAI @ Dec 17th 2007 12:42PM

Most overrated should be Assassin's Creed, coulda been fantastic... but ended up being mediocre at best.

Will @ Dec 17th 2007 12:53PM

I agree. Assassin's Creed didn't live up to all the hype. At least people are still playing Halo 3 -- which can't be said for Assassin's Creed or BioShock.

Big Ed @ Dec 17th 2007 9:32PM

@Will

orly? I have Halo 3, and I have been playing Bioshock much more. I'm in the middle of my 4th game right now.

N @ Dec 18th 2007 5:38AM

People aren't playing Assassin's Creed?

I'm pretty sure Major Nelson's Top 10 disagrees.

http://majornelson.com/archive/2007/12/17/live-activity-for-week-of-12-10.aspx

Jon @ Dec 18th 2007 8:16AM

No, Assassin's Creed would be worthy of Over-Hyped, not Overrated. Halo3 is not worthy of half the blind review scores it has received, whereas many reviews for Assassin's Creed aren't very good at all.

killploki @ Dec 17th 2007 12:58PM

how do you know there is no one still playing bioshock or assassins creed?

ChromaTick @ Dec 17th 2007 12:59PM

These awards line up exactly with my feelings.

I might have swapped Mass Effect for Bioshock. They were the top two in my eyes.

dunnypop @ Dec 17th 2007 1:13PM

just finished Bioshock on the weekend. I was pretty impressed... the ending was lackluster... but once you get all the powers. man I didn't want the game to end.

I haven't had enough time to give Mass Effect a run through.

I managed to play Rock Band with a bunch of friends, and I think that game is awesome... once my friends had some courage to use the microphone, hilarity ensued.

xtremesniper @ Dec 17th 2007 1:17PM

The part about Bioshock that kills it for me are the stupid puzzles you have to solve to "hack" things. It wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't make hacking certain things almost required if you don't want to be fried by security bots. I've stopped playing until I'm done playing other games. Not GOTY for me.

J @ Dec 17th 2007 2:21PM

I think Halo3 is the most overly-bashed GOTY..

Of course, I'm too busy having fun playing it to care all that much.

erivera3 @ Dec 18th 2007 2:31AM

Agreed, if these people would take the time to play it and realize how much it has to offer then maybe they wouldn't be bashing the hell out of it. Anyhow, Bioshock got reallllllllll boring and repetitive, and in no way should win game of the year especially with little to no replay value or multiplayer.

Etchasketchist @ Dec 17th 2007 3:20PM

Bioshock should not win Game of the Year. Neither should Orange Box or Mass Effect. This year's prize should go to an online multi-player game. Rock Band, Halo 3 and COD4 should be the finalists. Halo 3 should win because unlike RB and COD4, H3 has online campaign co-op.

iLuvUrOpinion @ Dec 17th 2007 3:41PM

i have to disagree with u, Etchasketchist.
halo3's coop is practically useless unless u coordinate and orchestrate and beg for people to play with u. Coop was the only reason i bought halo3. I wish Bungie would fix it and add in-game matchmaking like Gears of War. I like Halo's long and challenging campaign, but it blows on graphics, sound and coop.
Top games for me are COD4, BioShock, and Orange Box.

TheSh0wstopper @ Dec 17th 2007 3:48PM

Halo 3 is over rated. Overrated does not mean a game is bad, it just means that it is over rated. Look at Gears. Great game but highly overrated. GOTY could go either way between COD4, Bioshock, or Mass Effect. But I will lean towards BioShock. Was a breathe of fresh air in a a genre that is over abused.

-TheSh0wstopper

ccc @ Dec 17th 2007 3:52PM

Halo 3 was little more than a tool to sell 360s.
Even if bioshock didn't win MAss Effect or COD4 would have. In Game Informers awards halo 3 wasn't even in any of the editers top 5 favorite games of the year. Add to this that no one else is handing halo 3 anything except time mag, nuff said.

David(Postal) @ Dec 17th 2007 3:56PM

Congrats game of the year you deserver it... in fact i think it is the best game i have played in multiple years

will fn b @ Dec 17th 2007 4:16PM

OMG, a member of the press actually says something negative about halo? How long do you think before MS fires the writer?

JakubK666 @ Dec 17th 2007 4:49PM

I believe that Yahtzee already made six more reviews for The Escapist :)

JakubK666 @ Dec 17th 2007 4:19PM

People have recently developed a habit for bashing simple, entertaining thus excellent fps'es for being simple, entertaining games.

Halo isn't overrated nor overhyped because to be honest everything we've expected. It's an entertaining, simple shooter.Run & Gun, not much to add about it, yet everybody loves it and it fully fills it's purpose.

I don't believe that any realist here hoped that Halo would be something more than what we got.In fact everybody enjoyed the game and the bitching came later.

Don't compare it to Bioshock because
1.As I already said criticising Simple FPS for being a Simple FPS is a wrong way of thinking.
2. I for example would rather stick with an entertaining Halo 3 rather than Bioshock which is so up it's own ass with messages etc. that at some point you're not sure wherever this game is trying to be a horror, a shooter or a some philosophic crap.

I'm sick of people bashing Halo 3 and claiming it to be overhyped and overrated.It's perfectly what it's meant to be so you can piss off and say that to 5,000,000 copies sold.

Frederick Madera @ Dec 17th 2007 5:15PM

Totally agree with you! If Halo 3 wouldn't have been carrying all the hype it did before launch I bet all the critics would be claiming GOTY. I think critics like to bash Halo because it is:

1.The most fun fps on any console

2.The game people will still be playing a couple years from now when bioshock and COD4 are afterthoughts.

3.The most financially successful fps

4.The most popular game regardless of what they label it.

Trekster_Gamer @ Dec 17th 2007 6:13PM

I think any GOTY or any awards for that matter are useless. It comes down to a personal choice for every individual player. Critics and judges can believe what they want but if you personally think a game is the funnest game overall that you have played this year then that is your GOTY :)

Come on we all know Gyruss beats all of them anyways! ;P (cheezy attempt at levity)

ccc @ Dec 17th 2007 10:16PM

People bash Halo 3 because it fucking sucks, no other reason. If you get off playing the "simple Game" good for you, be a "simple gamer" then.
The market is about competition in quality which Bio Shock has in spades. Halo 3 other than its massive sales isn't worth mentioning in the same sentence with the real games that came out this year that were actually good. The Escapist was dead on with the review for this game. And even though halo 3 got decent reviews, you don't see anyone giving it any awards. Except best multiplayer game which it dosn't even deserve with COD4 out there.

stinger503 @ Dec 17th 2007 11:00PM

I think that most of vga's are trying to compare apples and oranges. This being Best Story/Atmosphere = Best Game. I think they should be two different things, in which, Bioshock would win the former and Halo 3 would be the latter. I mean come on, the multiplayer is spot on, single player is exhilerating finish to the triolgy. In my opinion Bioshock was much like Prey, in that it had a great story and atmosphere, good gameplay, and interesting ideas.

erivera3 @ Dec 18th 2007 2:35AM

What exactly makes Halo 3 a simple game? Is it the 4 player online coop? Is it the massive scaled vehicular multiplayer combat? Is it the epic ending to one of the best video game trilogies around? Is it the Forge? Is it the saved films features? Please, tell me, I am dying to know how Halo 3 can be called simple and a game like Bioshock with ONLY a single player campaign and NOTHING else can be called not simple?

Idiots can't be satiated, no matter how much a great game brings with.

petersjov @ Dec 18th 2007 9:35AM

Hi!

Bioshock deserves the GOTY award, but you have to crank the difficult up, until its hard enough, a true survival horror game - hanging on by the nails.........but had i friend drop in played it on easy-chesesy ...... then the game is fun!! ....but....sucks...big....time. Eww.

Zach @ Dec 18th 2007 10:35AM

Entertainment Weekly picked Bioshock GOTY too:

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20162677_20164091_20166551,00.html

ccc @ Dec 18th 2007 3:11PM

If you wern't around for or havn't played other fps games like Quke 3 or UT you won't understand why Halo is simple. Bottom line is its easy to beat and easy to master online play. PLay Quke 3 online and lets see how long it takes you to actually get good at it. Maybe simple isn't the right word for the Halo series, perhaps casual is more correct.