Posted on: January 17, 2025

kenadrian

Jeux: 366 Avis: 78

Great like the first, but less stable

BioShock 2 Remastered is a stand-alone sequel where we play as Subject Delta, a Big Daddy bonded to Eleanor Lamb, the daughter of Rapture's new ruler Sofia Lamb. In this game we travel the ruined city of Rapture again in search of her, meeting friends and enemies along the way. Gameplay is mostly the same, its an FPS with powers. One notable difference is we can dual wield, weapon in one hand, Plasmid power in another. Since Big Daddies are like one of the most iconic characters in the franchise and even gaming in general, it's a nice change that we get to control one of these giants in diving suits. One thing that I find weird however is the fact that Delta seems to take more damage and deal less melee damage than Jack, the first game's protagonist despite him being only a human. But maybe it creates a better difficulty balance, and kinda makes fights more tense. Sadly, for mouse and keyboard players, this game has a pretty big disadvantage: the lack of weapon/Plasmid selection screen. That means you'll have to switch them in real-time, which may be difficult during fights. Luckily, using a controller allows this feature, but for people who aren't used to controllers in FPS games will have to adapt. It's also more unstable than the first game, I experienced quite some random crashes so don't forget to quicksave often. Other than the main story, there's also 2 extra content: Protector Trials and Minerva's Den. The first is a challenge room where you must protect your Little Sister, and the other is a story DLC where you play as Subject Sigma, tasked by genius Charles Milton Porter to retrieve his supercomputer's programming. If you like the BioShock franchise you definitely should play BioShock 2, and especially Minerva's Den which is considered one of their best. The difference between the remastered version and the original is very minor, only the removal of multiplayer and higher textures. Play either one, but I recommend the remaster slightly more.

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Posted on: March 5, 2025

Kobb

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Jeux: 373 Avis: 3

Best entry of the series

Playing on W11 mid-low tier laptop, I played the original (which comes with this) not the remaster, on DX9 graphics settings, not a single crash. Ran perfect beginning to end and looked as lovely as a UE3 game could from that era. Onto the game itself. Without getting into the story, from a gameplay/design perspective this is one of the best Single-Player campaigns I've ever played. Every grievance and peeve I had with the first game was fixed and streamlined. (Hacking, fighting, getting new Plasmids- vastly improved over the first game) Furthermore the combat-sandbox is plain better, being able to have a beefy weapon in one hand and Plasmid powers in the other, allowing for actual build experimentations and re-playability. Simply great design. Without spoiling the story, even though it starts off very heavy-handed in the intro, if you play as a Savior, you'll be in for a very satisfying journey if you also go out of your way to find the logs to form a complete picture. The overall tone of the writing isn't as nasty as the first game- which I understand rubbed a lot of people the wrong way- it irritated me quite a few times too. The overall vibe, playing as a Big Daddy, its amazing. If there is one thing I'd criticize it'd be the enemy roster getting samey by the end of the game. Despite that, it was absolutely fantastic. Also the Minervas Den DLC is also an excellent trip, seriously recommend it!

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Posted on: December 18, 2018

yestok

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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

Jeux: 999 Avis: 39

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

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Jeux: 69 Avis: 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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