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Bio Shock
While you can buy health packs at health stations for $10, you can get them
for free by simply smashing the machines with your wrench. After a few hits,
between 1-3 health packs should lie on the floor for you to grab, for free.
There are two possible endings for BioShock that depend on how you treated
little sisters throughout the game. If you choose to "harvest" more than one
little sister, you will get the bad BioShock ending. If, however, you "harvest"
no more than one little sister but "rescue" the others, you will get the good
BioShock ending.
Hilary Goldstein
About halfway through the game, you meet Sander Cohen, this crazy artist
dude. When you finish the level, you can just leave him or kill him. If you kill
him at that point, you can't get one of the Achievements "Find Cohen's
Room." A while later you will stumble onto Cohen's apartment. If he's alive,
two Splicers will be dancing in the main room, with Cohen watching from his
locked private room. Kill the Splicers and then Cohen comes out to fight you,
thus unlocking the door and allowing you to earn the Achievement.
Elite Lancer
In order to do this, you need the Hypnotize Big Daddy Plasmid and the
Natural Camouflage Tonic. All you have to do is use the Hypnotize Big Daddy
Plasmid on a Big Daddy so that he thinks you're a Little Sister and protects
you. Now here's the fun part - simply find and attack another Big Daddy and
your Big Daddy will attack it to protect you.
Nunya Bines
SpudsOfSteel
While using the Telekinesis Plasmid, you can drop the item you are holding
instead of throwing it across the room. To do this you must have an item
currently being held. Pick up any item, with the Telekinesis Plasmid selected.
Using the LT button, keep holding the item, and don’t let go of the LT button.
When you’re ready to drop the item, press the RB button to open your
weapons menu, and in the transition of the weapons menu opening, let go of
the LT button. Choose your weapon and the item will drop safely to your feet.
If done correctly, the item falls at your feet, instead of being thrown, which
makes the item easier to find when you need it.
Doogster
n1njaaces
Once you get the Grenade Launcher and the Proximity Mines, this technique
can be employed. Find a red fuel tank (all over the place), and cover it with
about 6 Proximity Mines or so. Next, use Telekinesis to lift the massive
explosive device and hurl it at a Big Daddy. This deals massive damage,
leaving you with minimal effort to finish the job. Just be careful not to have
the bomb blow up before you get there. (The launcher upgrade that deals no
damage to you is a great thing to have just in case.)
Zippi
The following works with both the Crossbow and the Grenade Launcher. While
shooting either, you can rapidly reload by pressing the left trigger, then
quickly after pressing the right trigger. This will allow you to start shooting
without having to wait longer (several seconds) for your weapon to reload.
This is especially useful against powerful enemies like Big Daddies.
Paul Ray
Listed below are all twelve Power to the People stations, which can be used to
garner weapon upgrades.
Here's another technique to take out Big Daddies. Use the Electric Buck on
your Shotgun, alternating between the buck and using the Electro Bolt
Plasmid every few seconds (which will shock and freeze him in addition to
dealing damage). This technique is especially useful on Bouncer class Big
Daddies.
Fanible
Once you've obtained the Dart Gun, you can try this technique. All that's
required is Electrical Trap Darts (4-6 per Big Daddy). Take your 4-6 Trap Darts
and line them down a hall or near where you can see a Big Daddy, making
sure the path he'll take towards you is amply covered. Once that's done,
shoot at the Big Daddy to get his attention and keep him running towards
you. He'll run into each dart and kill himself.
Skop316
If you have Trap Bolts for your Crossbow, you can execute this technique to
kill Big Daddies easily. Give yourself about 20 feet (in-game, of course) and
shoot your Trap Bolts so they hang between you and the location of the Big
Daddy you want to kill. Then shoot a round with another weapon at the Big
Daddy to anger it so it comes towards you. It will stumble across the Trap
Bolts you've shot and die, since it only takes two of them to take one down.
Blacklodge
Here's another easy method to kill Big Daddies easily. Try using Electric Gel
in the Chemical Thrower. It takes about 3/4 of a tank, but the Big Daddy
won't be able to move as you shoot and kill him.
Arch8Angel
For easy Splicer kills, simply use Telekinesis on one to hurl its body at others
in the vicinity. This method usually results in a one-hit kill and is especially
useful against higher-level Splicers.
gamerguy0219
Take a photo of Sander Cohen's dead body for the "Irony" Achievement.
bigman2332
Play to the end of the game on Easy or Normal and get Atlas down to his last
jar of Adam. Pause, go to Options and change the difficulty to Hard. Finish
Atlas off and you should get the Achievements. Note: Don't die if you want
Brass Balls.
Tonic FAQ
This is a list detailing the locations and methods for obtaining all 53 Tonics
in Bioshock. Some are certainly tougher to come across than others, but all
are worth looking for. By collecting all 53 in the game, you get the 360
These are the Tonics you'll find in various places, just right out in the
open. You'll only need to press A next to them and they will be yours forever.
They have been cataloged here by their locations (Tonic name - area - exact
*Medical Pavilion:
*Neptune's Bounty:
-Wrench Lurker - Lower Wharf - Near Gene Bank after Spider Splicer
*Arcadia:
*Fort Frolic:
*Hephaestus:
-Security Evasion 2 - Heat Loss Monitoring - Across from electrical water area
*Olympus Heights:
*Point Prometheus:
*Special Tonics
The Gatherer's Garden Machines and the U-Invent machines have a few
Tonics
apiece, and the last ones will be granted for doing research (taking photos)
of the enemies in the game and saving Little Sisters. This is a list of the
special Tonics.
-Armored Shell
-Armored Shell 2
-EVE Link
-Extra Nutrition
-Frozen Field
-Speedy Hacker
-Human Inferno
-Shorten Alarms
-Hacking Expert 2
-Wrench Lurker 2
-Speedy Hacker 2
-Human Inferno 2 ?
*U-Invent Tonics:
-Booze Hound
-Bloodlust
-Hacker's Delight 2 ?
-EVE Link
-EVE Link 2
-Medical Expert 1
-Medical Expert 2
-Medical Expert 3
-Extra Nutrition
-Extra Nutrition 2
-Extra Nutrition 3
-Bloodlust
-Sportboost
-Sportboost 2
-Natural Camouflage
-Security Evasion
-Security Evasion 2
-Booze Hound
-Hacker's Delight
-Hacker's Delight 2
-Hacker's Delight 3
-Scrounger
-Shorten Alarms
-Shorten Alarms 2
-Security Expert 1
-Security Expert 2
-Alarm Expert
-Alarm Expert 2
-Focused Hacker
-Focused Hacker 2
-Hacking Expert
-Hacking Expert 2
-Prolific Inventor
-Clever Inventor
-Speedy Hacker
-Speedy Hacker 2
-Safecracker
-Safecracker 2
-Photographer's Eye
-Photographer's Eye 2
-Damage Research
-Damage Research 2
-Wrench Jockey
-Wrench Jockey 2
-Frozen Field
-Electric Flesh
-Electric Flesh 2
-Static Discharge
-Static Discharge 2
-Armored Shell
-Armored Shell 2
-Wrench Lurker
-Wrench Lurker 2
-Human Inferno
-Human Inferno 2
If you find that you are missing a Tonic, simply use the Ctrl-F command and
type in the name of the Tonic you need. That will take you right to it in the
This is list of all plasmids in the game (i hope) with description and my
opinion.
I know there are better versions of plasmids, but I don't mention them,
"Basic Trio" - Your base plasmids which you should always have with you!
1. Electro Bolt
Description: Can stun enemies, bots, turrets and cameras. It can also override
My opinion: Your best friend! You'll like it from begining to the end! With it
you can stun and then hack machines! And if you get "wrench jokey" tonic,
which can be found early in the game, you can take out every splicer
veeeeery
easily. Just stun him with Electro Bolt and then quickly smash its head with
wrench. Because you've got "wrench jokey" tonic, they immidiately die. But
watch out, because later in the game you can find "immune-to-electricity"
splicer. It's an ordinary splicer, but you can recognise them by sparkling on
them-
2. Incinerate!
Description: Can set enemies and objects on fire. Can light up oil poodles and
My opinion: Not very good plasmid. Too little damage to enemies and oil
poodles are on bad places. But for melting down ice it's perfect!
3. Telekinesis
Description: Can pull up items even bigger then you and can hurl them in any
direction!
My opinion: Good plasmid. Pulling objects don't cost any Eve and hurling
them
cost veeeeeeery small amount! But there isn't so many places where you can
use
it effectively.
It has best use when you wanna get rid of the trap bolts. Just pull one end
and hurl it into another! Or hurl some object against the wire!
4. Insect Swarm
Description: Send swarm of insects on the enemy. The instects bite them so
enemies won't notice you for a while. Best to use on many enemies.
My opinion: No use. You never find out big group of splicers and when you
find
Descriptions: For a limited ammount of time Big Daddy will see you as one of
My opinion: Not so good plasmid. When there's big need of Big Daddy it's
good
plasmid. Otherwise: No use. It drains all Eve from you, so you have to inject
another Eve Hypo. And when there's a Little Sister with him and you think
you
can hypnotize Big Daddy, so you could harvest/rescue Little Sister, it's
mistake. Why? Because Little Sister won't stay there and cry at Big Daddys
corpse, so she will run and hide from you. Then you have two choices: You
can
kill Big Daddy, but you won't get Little Sister or you can wait until effect
of plasmid is gone and wait until Big Daddy lure Little Sister back. Then you
can kill Big Daddy and you can harvest/rescue Little Sister.
6. Winter Blast
Description: Freeze your enemies and you can then shatter them into
thousand
pieces with one blow! (only weaker enemies) You won't get anything from
7. Security Bullseye
cameras
My opinion: Why use this, when you can stun and hack machines?
8. Cyclone Trap
Description: Sets a trap in the floor. Enemy who will step at it will be fired
in the air!
My opinion: Bad plasmid. Good only against one splicer and you can deal with
them by stunning them with Electro Bolt. This plasmid drains too much Eve.
9. Target dummy
while.
My opinion: No use. If enemies don't know about you their too far to
10. Enrage
Description: This plasim will make enemy attack everyone near him.
My opinion: No use. You never find group of splicers to effectively use this.
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Audiotape FAQ
There are 122 of them, so only the most serious of collectors will get them
all. For picking them all up, you get the 360 achievement "Historian" and the
satisfaction of a job well done. For ease of use, they are separated by which
tapes are found in each level. Remember - this is a rough guide to where they
are located. For a more in-depth look at where each tape can be found, cross-
-New Year's Eve Alone - Diane McClintock - Kashmir Restaurant dance floor
-Shouldn't Have Come - Mariska Lutz - Rolling Hills by the RPG turret
-Stood Up Again - Diane McClintock - Outside Fleet Hall near the stairs
-Musical Insult - Sander Cohen - Fleet Hall upstairs storage
-Requiem For Andrew Ryan - Sander Cohen - Fleet Hall projection room
-Going To Heat Loss- Anya Andersdotter - Last corpse hanging in statue room
-Kyburz Door Code - Pablo Navarro - Heat Loss Monitoring - First room
-Great Chain Moves Slowly - Andrew Ryan - Kyburz's office on the desk
-The Dream - Kyburz - Workshop near Big Daddy corpse
That is all 122 audiotapes. Whew. Again, for a more detailed explanation,
consult the walkthrough. To jump right to the audiotape you can't find, use
Ctrl-F and type in the name of the tape. You'll find it in no time.