Posted on: March 17, 2025

kanamor392

Games: Reviews: 60

Mediocre, disappointing, embarrassing

Lots of crashes, updating my graphic drivers and lowering quality helped but still had to save literally every five minutes. It didn't crash so often, but losing progress in a boring game is a huge bummer. Google where saves are stored -launch the game, delete older saves and close the game so they are synced and you don't have to manually delete/rewrite saves because there's also a fixed save limit. BS2 is set in Rapture a few years after BS1. You are a prototype Big Daddy that moves exactly as a human would but can use Big Daddy weapons (only they mostly suck). The story has some interesting hooks but the low quality writing means they disappoint. Since everyone important died in BS1 they retcon a major player that inexplicably sat out the events in BS1 and wasn't even mentioned, and that's the "villain". These BS2 characters are so bad Burial at Sea, the Rapture DLC for BioShock Infinite, simply ignores them. Some of the spoken lines are so cringe I actually laughed out loud at them. The gameplay is somehow not as good as BS1, and visually the color palette immediately felt "wrong". The levels are physically bigger (I never realized how small the first few rooms in BS1 actually are) but badly designed: linear, clearing enemies both on the way in and out. Predictable and boring. When saving a Little Sister, rather than getting less Adam you escort them to corpses and they pass the extracted Adam to you. During the extraction you have to endure a long, boring, crash-prone mob assault, so I just harvested them. This affects the ending, just like BS1. For DLC, it has a gauntlet mode and a different storyline playing as yet another prototype Big Daddy, but the boring voice acting and base game suckiness made me abandon it. I played BS1 and Infinite several times and love them. I forced myself to finish BS2 for this review and I already forgot most of the story. This feels like a bootleg sequel: familiar but simply inferior if not outright worse. Don't buy.

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Posted on: July 20, 2025

Moredy

Games: Reviews: 4

Play the Classic version

Fantastic game, but the remaster is an absolute mess. Play the Classic version which you get for free.

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Posted on: December 18, 2018

yestok

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 5

GOG did it again, new masterpieces here

Finally after some longer waiting, we can thank GOG for bringing the Bioshock Series here. Now we can finally enjoy playing it DRM Free and without the bad Steam DRM, that doesn't let you play if you don't have your account signed in and client installed. With the current PC Store Publishing War, GOG is IMHO the best place to buy your games if you don't want to lose them in the next 10 years. For the games itself (BioShock 1 and 2), you already know that they are masterpieces and one of the best games in the last decade. I really don't really need to explain that. Just add it to your collection and play it, if you haven't already.

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Posted on: June 22, 2021

limitlessbritt

Games: 1010 Reviews: 40

Better than 1 gameplay wise

Bioshock 2 was a solid game. Gameplay wise, its way better than bioshock one were you dual wield gun and plasmids. I liked the hacking a lot more in this game as well. I liked how they did the tonic slots better in this game. Story wise playing as a big daddy was an interesting change from the first game. Overall worth a play even if people say its worse than the first. 7/10

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Posted on: August 8, 2021

MostDangerous

Verified owner

Games: 69 Reviews: 15

The big kahuna

First thing's first: resolve the crashing issue by forcing the game to render using DX9 With that out of the way, Bioshock 2 is a game that really won me over. For the longest time I regarded it as inferior to the original. On replaying it, I now understand that it's barely even the same game. "But MD, it still takes place in Rapture and features almost all the same mechanics!" True, but it both expands on those mechanics and uses them in a completely different way. The big new thing with Bioshock 2 is that you're a Big Daddy from the get go, and thus you spend the game doing Big Daddy things, namely defending Little Sisters. But this isn't some glorified rail shooter crap like the end of the first game. You're expected to stand against massive onslaughts in fixed locations that you can engage with at will. Thus, you actually have time to set up all kinds of traps and various area defense tools such as mini-turrets and summoned security bots. Traps were present but virtually unused in the first game. The only purpose of this, however, is gaining more Adam. If the player doesn't care, he's free to ignore it at the risk of being underprepared for later fights. There are a number of other really nice QoL changes in the game too. Dual wielding, gene tonics no longer having arbitrary limited slots per category (all are combined into a single ~25 slot board), the hacking minigame being changed to one that goes by so, so much faster (with the tradeoff of occurring in realtime). Even little things like the drill being more balanced and more satisfying than the wrench contribute to the gameplay being incredible While the story is an obvious attempt to rectify the fact that they didn't make an analogue to The Many from SS2 in the first game, it's compelling in its own right and expands on the lore well. The game does all a sequel should, with the only big disappointment being reduced level count. Little Sister defense can feel like padding in light of that.

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