BioShock™ 2 Remastered

At this price (£4.69) it's a steal. Just buy. it. Enough said. Doesn't need a review as it's a must on anyone's gaming list.

The game is still amazing, after all these years. Great story, nice graphics and a real good DLC story. Unfortunately this games crashes around every 10 minutes of gameplay, especially when fighting. Weird, because its predecessor, Bioshock Remastered, never crashed on my machine. But hey, just use F11 (quicksave) frequently, and you'll be fine. Despite all the crashing, this game was wortth every penny of the €5,- I payes in the holiday sale.

Nice game, a followup to the original but not that much different. Feral has a Mac OS version of this but its not here on GOG which is a shame.

Even today nice graphics, nice gameplay and brilliant story. IT a masterpiece like part one or even a little bit better. The gameplay is a little bit easier. Nearly 12h played, 4 crashes (i think memory leaks). It's ok.

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.