Psychotomy

Started playing Bioshock last night! WOOHOO!

Picked the game up the week it released. I had played the demo and figured out that I could control it. Gears of War and Crackdown used independent motion (left stick) and aiming (right stick) navigation; so if I were running forward and turned to my left to shoot something, i’d keep running straight forward. At a right angle to the direction I’m seeing. I was never quite able to figure out how it decided which way was “forward” since I don’t think it was absolute for the whole map. But it might have been that “forward” was “North.”

Bioshock, however, moves logically. If I turn to shoot at things, I keep running in the direction I’m facing. And it’s easier for me rotate aim to the right, and move run to the left to start “strafing”. In fact it’s generally semi-intuitive to me.

Of course, I can only play while Des is out of town, so I have to play fast :o

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