Fun to play but it's buggy, and looks dated.
posted by JustinGlen (ROUND ROCK, TX) May 1, 2010
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Bioshock 2 is practically the same as the first - takes place in Rapture, an underwater city. The game-play is nearly the same as the first and it's fun to make progress, especially when you're more than a halfway through and have reached the point of domination against your foes. Then you decide to save your game - overwriting your previous save from 3-4 hours ago and then your saving progress bar freezes on 83% and ultimately corrupts your save file.
Apparently it's a very common bug on multiple platforms including PC. For me, unreliable software is unacceptable and I plan on not playing through it again. So make sure you save often, and creating new saves every time; I didn't and so it ruined my experience.
The graphics in my opinion are terrible by today's standards. Bioshock was a great game a couple of years ago and is one of my personal favorites of all time. I finished God of War III just before I started on Bioshock II and I could not believe the low-resolution quality of Bioshock's graphics. Needless to say I was mortified by it; I almost thought I was playing a PS2 version. For me, this is an epic failure [not sure who to blame so I'm going to point to the developers at 2K] not take the visuals to another level.
Overall I enjoyed making progress [I got as far as saving my second Little sister at Dionysus Park] but the save/crash-bug is unacceptable, and the graphics engine is severely dated and of such low-quality compared to games of the same genre [Fallout III], for me - it's disappointing.
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