BioShock™ 2 Remastered

Technical aside, this game improve from before with better story and gameplay. But before you playing PLEASE install some modder patch for your sanity (i got 2 crashes before i resort to use fixes to mitigate the issue)

My absolute favorite of the series. The story and new characters used throughout the game greatly expand on the complex and wonderful world of Rapture while still retaining what made the first game so good to begin with. The dual plasmid/weapon system makes gunplay much more dynamic and improves some of the original plasmids I found either basic or underwhelming such as security bullseye or enrage/hypnotize. My only nitpick is that I wish there was a weapon/plasmid menu like the first game where I can choose my plasmid in peace without misclicking or taking to long to select it; eight plasmid slots are lot to keybind. All of the levels in this game play sort of like prequel worldbuilding to the main events depicted in Bioshock 1, and the radio play aesthetic of the audio logs are just as good! Seriously, most games tend to have collectible logs that either bland exposition or just outright suck (like Horizon Zero Dawn for example). As for Minerva's Den, it's an amazing story and packed with new content for its' small size, but there's definitely a lack of story beats in the moment but rather explained through audio logs in the past, which might make it a little underwhelming for some. However, instant amusement can be attained via spamming gravity well lol. I wish there were more "political" games that revolve around a fictional setting and challenge the player to think about its themes and nuances like Metal Gear or this. Most new games that attempt to do so cling to contemporary issues to lecture and scold about, which is about as pleasing to observe as a modern day political cartoon (ugh... just UGH!). I cannot recommend the series enough, except for Infinite which in my mind really dropped the ball in a lot of aspects except for Elizabeth until the big ending. P.S The remaster surprisingly runs more stable than the original version which I suppose makes myself quite fortunate compared to a lot of others.