In what seems like years, I finally got around into buying another PC game. This time it’s for me. Wohoo!

In the past week, I have been reading several raving reviews about BioShock and decided to check it out myself.

The game is set in the late 1950s and is about a rich guy called Andrew Ryan who built an underwater utopia. And like in all games, bad things happens and you find yourself in the middle of it. I think you get the picture.

Since only the PC version was available at the store I thought I might as well buy it as I really wanted to test this game on my brother’s shiny new laptop. It’s quite a steal; his laptop is. All thanks to my uncle. Bought a 1.6K laptop for only 1k.

Yes another laptop. I now have 3 laptops and 2 desktop computers at home. Just to make you envious I do well to gloat that I also have 3 printers, an Xbox, an Xbox 360, a Wii, a PS2, a DS lite, two grandmothers, two external harddisks and lots of hair on my head.

But as soon as I got home. The problems started to emerge. Somehow or rather the game could not run on my brother’s laptop. And after spending an hour in the forum, I still could not get it to work. PC games continue to be bogged down by hardware and driver conflict issues. And to make matters worse there is still Direct X 10 and Vista to take into account.

I decided to abandon my efforts and try the game on my now-dated-but-still-a-monster-Dell-laptop. And would you believe it, it worked like a charm. Okay not exactly. I did reduce the graphics settings so as not to cost my laptop to catch fire in the midst of a unworldly heated exchange.

I am not sure how far I am into the game but from what I have seen, the game looks gorgeous. The art direction is superb. The dialogues are very well written and when you hear what the characters say to each other, it’s just plain creepy. The audio effects excels by sending chills down your spine.

All this talk about not having realistic water effects in computer games can be thrown out of the window because BioShock has nailed it. The water effects in this game are a technical achievement. I don’t say it lightly because you need a monster of a machine to run this game on its high settings.

I wish I had a monster of a machine. Well there’s always the 360 version to look forward to.