BioShock™ Remastered

I loved playing the original years ago. The game has a great story and gameplay. However, you should not bother with this remaster. During my time playing it, I experienced numerous crashes resulting in hours of progress being lost due to the game only autosaving after each level. This led to me manually saving the game every 15 to 20 minutes or so. The final straw for me was when the game crashed whilst saving. It happened before, but I thought it would just revert me to a save of ten minutes ago. With this crash however, it reverted me to a save of several days ago. All my saves of that day had been lost during the crash; no file recovery whatsoever could recover them. Deleted the game and requested a review right after that. Don't waste your time like I have. System used: Windows 11 Ryzen 5 5600X RTX 3060 Ti 16GB DDR4 RAM

But I can't. I'm not even going to talk about how great the game is because I have to acknowledge that you may not get to experience the game if you purchase this remaster. I got it for dirt cheap and I am still filled with regret. I wish I had had an obvious gamebreaking bug from the start so I could make an informed decision. Even ten years after its release, there are still plenty. Alas, I spent hours creeping through Rapture until I encountered the despawning spider splicer bug. After some effort, I've been unable to get the console to work, as 2K disabled it in an update, so I'm trapped in a pub and unable to progress the game. The usual methods I would use to repair an issue like this were taken away from the player. 2K maliciously sabotaged this game. Do not give them money. The original version of Bioshock isn't hard to find elsewhere.

To keep it simple: The game is as beautiful if not prettier than the original. However, it is filled with bugs and errors that are never going to be fixed anymore. I personally wanted to replay the whole series and thought doing so with the remastered version would be a great idea: it offers increased FOV, crisper and cleaner textures and doesn't struggle with animations not tied to fps etc. But then, there were the bugs, especially the one that made me stop playing and uninstalling the remaster. There is a chance that the game might crash the moment you save your game. I read online that people therefor recommend using at least 2 different save files, meaning you should always save twice. Why is that important? Because if the game crashes while saving, your file is corrupted and won't show up the next time you re-launch the main menu. Even using 2 save files might not do it for you, depending on how often that bug occurs. I personally don't want to think about my safe files possibly corrupted all the time. The only saving grace and the reason I leave it at 2 stars is that you're getting classic Bioshock as well with this one. If it is on sale, buy the remaster and play the original. I did and it still runs great, for me personally on Linux and Proton GE 9-4. Textures are less polished but still look great imo and the smaller FOV actually increases the immersion and makes the gameplay more intimate. Still, if you're planning to get it for the remaster, especially on full price: don't.

What else can I say, if you've never played Bioshock before, DO IT. Loved the bioshock games when they first came out and it's great to have them on GOG Also glad they're going to include the original games as I had some issues with the remasters, which I'm hoping are fixed now but if not then at least I'll have the originals to play

It was a fun and interesting game. I didn't experience any crashes on the remastered.