BioShock® 2
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Description
Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture. Players step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as they travel through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and their own survival.
Multiplayer in BioShock 2 will provide a rich prequel experience that expands the origins of the BioShock fiction. Set during the fall of Rapture, players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair Solutions, a premier provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater city of Rapture that was first explored in the original BioShock. Players will need to use all the elements of the BioShock toolset to survive, as the full depth of the BioShock experience is refined and transformed into a unique multiplayer experience that can only be found in Rapture.
Singleplayer Features:
- Evolution of the Genetically Enhanced Shooter: Innovative advances bring new depth and dimension to each encounter. New elements, such as the ability to dual-wield weapons and Plasmids, allow players to create exciting combination's of punishment
- Return to Rapture: Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the story continues with an epic, more intense journey through one of the most captivating and terrifying fictional worlds ever created
- You are the Big Daddy: Take control of BioShock’s signature and iconic symbol by playing as the Big Daddy, and experience the power and raw strength of Rapture’s most feared denizens as you battle powerful new enemies
- Continuation of the Award-Winning Narrative: New and unique storytelling devices serve as the vehicle for the continuation of one of gaming’s most acclaimed storylines
Multiplayer Features:
- Genetically Enhanced Multiplayer: Earn experience points during gameplay to earn access to new Weapons, Plasmids and Tonics that can be used to create hundreds of different combinations, allowing players to develop a unique character that caters to their playing style.
- Experience Rapture’s Civil War: Players will step into the shoes of Rapture citizens and take direct part in the civil war that tore Rapture apart.
- See Rapture Before the Fall: Experience Rapture before it was reclaimed by the ocean and engage in combat over iconic environments in locations such as Kashmir Restaurant and Mercury Suites, all of which have been reworked from the ground up for multiplayer.
- FPS Veterans Add Their Touch to the Multiplayer Experience: Digital Extremes brings more than 10 years of first person shooter experience including development of award-winning entries in the Unreal® and Unreal Tournament® franchise.
Customer reviews
84
Gooooood Game!
kalil | April 10, 2012 | See all kalil's reviews »the story is well made, so as the issue of weapons and variety of objects scattered by Levels.The game engine as well as the graphics, they deserve the highest grade. The city of rapture, is extensive, you can research per hours searching several corpses and objects, plus, I really like the theme to hack the machines that provide objects and bullets, very interesting way to use the little sister to the precious recoletar adan, as the option to extract the adan of little, with the good or the BAD ........ I must say that this title has an on-line, with several types of battles, cooperative or all against all, is not the maximum, but entertains this well, especially how "the law of the strongest" where a place (there are many and change) of rapure, up to 10 player stick a great time, a curious note is that on-line are not big daddy, ma a splicer or a yonkarra mutated plasmids addict, let a of the enemies in the way off.Estaras equipped with a gun and a power of exchanging plasmids can go ...... In closing I want to say it's a very very good game and as of today is very reduced price worth having
80
Be the Big Daddy
Rice77 | April 10, 2012 | See all Rice77's reviews »Bioshock 2 is a good game. It is a follow up to the great hit Bioshock, from whom it takes the setting, story and weapons. Although it has a better gameplay than the first, Bioshock 2's story is considered a bit worse than the first one's but it is not it's fault because getting near to the masterpiece story from Bioshock was really hard, and more if we consider it was another dev team who developed it. Another negative point is it uses GFWL - the worst DRM ever. All in all Bioshock 2 does a great job but doesn't shine as brilliantly as Bioshock.
80
If there was no bioshock...
jojot | Sept. 2, 2011 | See all jojot's reviews »This is a game that suffered somewhat for being second in line to the first game. The first game was fully self contained and had no need of a sequel at all. This game isn't even so much of a sequel as it is an entirely new game set in the same universe (albeit chronologically after the first game).
In the sequel that nobody ever asked for you play as a prototype big daddy, making you smaller, weaker and a bit more agile that the ones you see around. You also have the benefit of being able to use plasmids which makes life a bit more interesting. For the most part everything is as you remember it, but the situation in Rapture has changed a bit since Fontaine and Ryan bit the dust. Being a big daddy you are trying to find your little sister (although that doesn't stop you killing other big daddies and taking there little sisters too) but the new power in rapture is trying to stop you. On top of that Tenenbaum from the first game has you rescuing the other little sisters (or you can harvest them if you want to). Theres also a new big baddie, the Big Sister, who is quite powerful and very agile and frequently shows up when you don't want her to.
All in all the game is easily as good as the first Bioshock, but doesn't add an awful lot on top, so unless you were a fan then just playing the first game will be good enough probably. If you loved the first game and want more of rapture however, this game is definitely worth getting.
75
Story Driven RPG Game
GMGReviewer | Aug. 25, 2011 | See all GMGReviewer's reviews »I read that you don't need to play BioShock 1 before playing BioShock 2, apparently you do. Because the game is very heavy on story telling.
I was not that impressed by this game and how it was marketed as a action RPG shooter. BioShock 2 has very little action don't let the trailers fool you.
What you do in BioShock 2 is go from one place to another while killing whoever that gets in your way (that's the shooting element), all while you collect items and explore the very creative underwater world of Rapture (RPG element). The exploring, collecting, upgrading, audio logs, backtracking, hacking and menu navigating is what you will do about half of the time, the other half, you shoot.
The weapons in BioShock 2 are very unique, the shooting however do feel stiff. You get to upgrade these unique weapons and use them on your foes as they have different effects on them.
It also has separate multiplayer mode that uses GFWL and is pretty fun. You can tell it's developed separately because you need to exit singleplayer to play it, it also has a different aspect ratio than the singleplayer game. You get to set up traps, use the Big Daddy suit (which spawn randomly) and also customize your load out.
BioShock 2 is a great story driven game with lots of different mechanical gameplay. If you like atmospheric story driven game and like to collect and upgrade your weapons, this game does those elements very well. I personally didn't like it.
80
Bioshock 2, A Standalone More Than A Direct Sequel
TheTHing2010 | Aug. 25, 2011 | See all TheTHing2010's reviews »Having the fact that this game appears to be the sequel to the magnificence of its predecessor, Bioshock 2 isn't necessarily as polished. The story in Bioshock 2 feels more linear than the first game, but the world of Rapture still has much potential like the first game. Rescuing/harvesting Little Sisters can't be done immediately--you have to go around and find a dead body where ADAM can be extracted from and guard them while fighting off hordes of splicers.
Here are some of the positive things: The hacking implementation has been changed--improved with a quicktime event instead of it being tedious where you move pipes around for half an hour. Further in the game, you get to look at a backstory and find out when Rapture was founded by Andrew Ryan. You can now use plasmids and weapons at the same time instead of having to switch between your plasmids and weapons which can get quite annoying, especially on the PC version of the game. The new plasmids that are introduced are pretty useful, and you can set some traps on fire.
Here are some of the negatives: The graphics don't look as polished as the first game--they look a little sharp, even with anti-aliasing enabled. There are about six endings depending on how you play the game, so you might as well look the others up if you don't want to play through six times.
If you liked Bioshock, I guess you'll like this one if you play through it, but it's just not as powerful as its predecessor.