Just Ok
posted by Devin1498 (FALMOUTH, MA) Apr 23, 2010
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The professional game media overrated Bioshock 1, in this reviewers opinion. It was a good game, albeit not a particularly deep or revelatory experience. There are other games that have melded the shooter and RPG genres, and posed moral quandaries to the player with greater results (ie---Deus Ex).
That said, Bioshock 2 largely rides the formula of Bioshock 1. Its highly imitative, and the law of diminishing returns applies.
Although you play as a Big Daddy in B2, the mechanics are largely the same, the protagonist merely allowing for some new weapons. The over world of Rapture, which is the real reason the original was so praised, loses much of its luster. Most of the environments, while not exactly bad, don't show any new dimensions to the once exhilarating underwater city.
The antagonist of the game, like that of the first, is basically a big brother type overlord, whom espouses grand, sweeping ideological sentiments. There are apparently differences in the content of the ideology, and this time the antagonist is female, but the differing content renders an identical conflict.
Again, players won't be too impressed by the evolution of Bioshock as a franchise, in the sequel. Hardcore fans may appreciate it through a prism of nostalgia, and it is solidly produced, but it doesn't offer anything substantively new to make it recommendatory.
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