Posted on: December 4, 2025

RedXIII

Games: 945 Reviews: 4

Masterpiece of storytelling

What a great adventure this has been! Played both the main game and its DLC (Minerva's Den) and left myself immersed in the Rapture's haunting atmosphere. If anyone challenges you why gaming is an art, point them towards this one as one of the greatest examples this medium can offer. I prefer this one over the original Bioshock for its improved gameplay mechanics and its setting, which was less horror compared with the original. On the technical side, I have experienced my share fare of crashes to desktop, so glad I pushed through these and didn't give up. From what I noticed, lowering graphical settings does help most of the times (antialising, water reflections etc.), the issues mostly happen during busy or hectic fights (lots of visuals or alarms at the time). Savescumming helped with these incidents, sometimes also change of fight strategy was necessary (different plasmids used or staying hidden from enemies sight until their number is lower). In spite of these issues, maximum score from me and a game I greatly recommend for anyone interested in a FPS with a long-lasting story!

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Posted on: February 3, 2021

Zeheer

Verified owner

Games: 93 Reviews: 1

Great, but with problems

The game itself is great, It's definitly a step up from BioShock 1. New mechanics, plasminds, new hacking, it's all well done and maching with this series theme. In terms of technical stuff, it's also well optimised. Even with my ancient GPU (GTX 660) it's running quite smoothly, except for a few drops in some places. But, as others have mentioned, there's problem with crashing. For me, crashes almost exclusivly were happening when accesing or hacking vending machines, and sometimes during fights. Curiously, at the beginning, not in the middle, even when battle was intense. Said crashes are pretty random, sometimes game is running for like 2h with zero problems, and sometimes there's crash every 30 min or so. Honestly, as long as you're frequently quicksaving, you won't lose much of your progress. So to sum this up, I really like it, but I cannot give more than 4 stars, due to aforementioned crashing.

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Posted on: February 23, 2024

xaero47

Verified owner

Games: 132 Reviews: 89

One of the best games ever made

if it wasn't the worst optimized one lmao. Literally had to save every 3 seconds when the screen was flooded with enemies during the Little Sisters Adam things for example and in many other situations. Basically just save every 3 seconds when the screen is flooded with enemies and you'll be fine most of the time.

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Posted on: February 26, 2024

BogyClown

Verified owner

Games: 43 Reviews: 10

Love it

In many ways better than the original. I actually preferred 2's story in certain ways. The first Bioshock overplayed the cliche of everyone betraying each other, which seems to be overdone in movies, TV shows, and games nowadays. 2's story just seemed more grounded and grander in scope. Gameplay-wise, better in almost all ways. More weapons, better hacking minigame, and you can fire weapons and plasmids at the same time now. The only subjective "downgrade" is a seeming loss of imm sim mechanics. Bioshock 1 was somewhat of an imm sim lite and allowed you to use the environment to your advantage (e.g., throwing objects, electrocuting water). 2 still has those abilities, just less opportunities to do so. The level progression also seems to be ever so slightly more linear, although that isn't necessarily better or worse. Multiplayer is fun, if you can get it working. The Minerva's Den DLC deserves separate recognition. It improved so much from the main game, both story and gameplay. Arguably has one of the best stories in a game.

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Posted on: April 18, 2024

Rhinoxster

Verified owner

Games: 144 Reviews: 7

Best Bioshock game from the trilogy

Dive deep inside crumbling Rapture city. This time you experience this journey through out Big Daddy eyes. You are uknown prototype who tries to find out the truth. Walking back inside desroyed and burning down Rapture city never been so awesome. Better and improved combat mechanics from the first game as its lets you to use plasmids and gun at the same time. Killing splicers was amusing and fun. Useful tactics always pays out at the end. Best encounters with Big Sisters as they make you dance and think smart before taking them out. They are ferocious and agile while you are easy target for them cause your slow tanki mobility. Making enemies fight between themself when you use tricks on them makes it even more fun. Great story with twister characters and spin offs aftermatches. Different choices let to desire for replaying this masterpiece. Personally I think this is better game then the first one. One fact that you control Big daddy is a bonus and the story telling is better. Sadly a lot of people had mixed reaction on this title. One of the most forgotten gems in game library. Must play for every Bioshock fan. 10/10

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