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Bioshock Available at Circuit City

Submitted by Midnight on Sat, 08/18/2007 - 12:49pm.

I received a tip late last night (Friday August 17th) that the Huntsville, Alabama, Circuit City had Bioshock available for sale. I arrived this morning to find the rumors were true, and happily purchased a copy. How did the street date get screwed up so badly for Bioshock?

Doesn’t surprise me, they

Doesn't surprise me, they did the same thing for Halo 2 Vista. I heard most Toys R Us stores are selling it too. Is this just the Xbox 360 version or are they selling the PC version too?

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You start playing it yet?

You start playing it yet? How do you like it?

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Yes, I’ve been playing it

Yes, I've been playing it for about 5 hours now. I love it. There is so much to explore. The world is crafted so precisely and interestingly that I spend several minutes searching each room. The way you can use plasmids/tonics/guns/different types of ammo/hacked bots/hacked turrets/hacked cameras creates an endless number of ways to deal with any situation. You also have to make tough choices on what plasmids to carry when you run out of spaces, and you may have to drastically alter your playing style to compensate. The achievements are also well balanced (a few easy, few difficult, and several secret).

This will have hours upon hours upon hours of replay value for me.

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AND I hear it has multiple

AND I hear it has multiple endings...

I'm excited for this game...

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I think the multiple endings

I think the multiple endings will focus on whether you decide to harvest or rescue the little sisters. It's more difficult to rescue them and there's a 100 point achievement for never harvesting one, so I've chosen that route.

Just battled my first big daddy. They are no joke. I'm on medium difficulty and it took me about 4-5 times to find a good strat to beat him.

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Wow, you’ve played >5 hrs

Wow, you've played >5 hrs and you've only met your first big daddy? I know there's a few in the game, so if they're evenly spaced out, you could spend about 30 hrs playing the game.

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$49.99 in CC ad in the sunday paper

It's only 49.99 this week @ CC, so you might can take your receipt and get 10 bucks back since they lowered the price within 30 days.

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I’ll actually get $11 back

I'll actually get $11 back since they have a 110% price match policy. Gonna do that Tuesday after work, then pick up my collector's edition from EB and probably trade in my existing copy of Bioshock at the same time.

BTW, here's a 10% off coupon for EB.

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Thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll pick it up this week, then.

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Well, gigs up

Well, gigs up. Circuit City wouldn't sell me a copy this afternoon. They guy said he had accidentally put them out on the shelves and can't sell it to me until tomorrow.

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At least it’ll still be

At least it'll still be ten bucks cheaper.

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Bioshock CC Recon

Just picked up my copy of Bioshock for 49.99, Circuit City had 4 standard edition copies left. I saw no Limited or Special editions there.

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Limited edition is EB/GS

Limited edition is EB/GS only.

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Got my copy at Best Buy

Got my copy at Best Buy after being shafted next door at Circuit City.

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