BioShock 2: Minerva's Den Remastered
《密涅瓦之室》提供了全新独立的生化奇兵故事,呈现了你从未见过的Rapture的一面。寻找用于解锁新目标和空间的工具,你可以自行选择顺序。在你增强实力的同时面对Rapture各式各样的敌人——挑战无处不在。
使用《密涅瓦之室》独占的实验型Ion Laser和强大的Gravity Well Plasmid扩展你的战斗能力。对抗全新的Lancer Big Daddy,这是Rapture制造的最为先进的保护者。探索《密涅瓦之室》的每一个阴暗角落、揭露The Thinker的发明者的神秘过去以及他创造的冷酷又全知的机器下隐藏的黑暗秘密。
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.
I put off playing BioShock 2 for a very long time, since the original release of the game had me experiencing horrible, constant stuttering. So I shelved it for years. It wasn't until this Remaster made its way to GOG that I finally decided to give it another shot and I'm very glad I did. This is without a doubt the best game in the series from a pure gameplay standpoint. Combat engagements are always fun. Swapping between your drill and your array of other weapons feels great. I wasn't sure how I would find Rapture after revisiting it after all this time, but the Rapture present in BioShock 2 is as incredibly beautiful and mysterious as it has ever been. Some of the levels present in this one even surpass the original in terms of exploration and environmental storytelling. As many others have already pointed out this Remaster is frequently prone to crashing. I must have crashed around 30 times over my 15 hour playthrough. Not exaggerating. It's sad that the game seems to have been left in this state but it surprisingly didn't harm my overall experience with the game. I just had that great a time with it. I definitely recommend BioShock 2 to anyone who has been putting it off.
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