BioShock™ 2 Remastered

The game is solid, if a bit shorter than BS1. Plot and characters all good. But I give a negative review because of the crashing: during the ten hours or so it took me to finish it, it crashed probably a hundred times. Got to a point where when defending little sisters, I had to stare at the ground and rely on turrets and bees to defend them because actually fighting the splicers seemed to trigger the memory failure causing the game to fail. Tried all listed techniques - one most stable was the DXVK directx-to-vulkan library. Didnt fix it, but the game became stable enough to finish (still with frequent quick saving, i.e. once every 30 seconds to a minute). Some core issue buried in the code there, somewhere.

The story is a bit less interesting than the first one, but the overall gameplay is much better. So much fun. 10/10

This game is tedious. Collect the little sister. Take her to the gather point. Set up traps. Okay, kill boring bullet spongey enemies. Okay. Now. Do that again. Now do it 6 more times this level, then do it again but harder. Oh, and use the research camera, no, not like that, do it better. This game has about 30 minutes of content per level, but forces you to spend 2 hours on each if you don't want to be resource starved.

Mejor que el primero!

Story mid. DLC good.

I think that this game is what that one clip about how video games "induldge the male fantasy" was about. I sure as hell want to be a sick-ass robot girl-dad who would do anything to save his adopted-daughter. Maybe if we were all a bit more like (good-ending) Delta, the world would look the utopia both Ryan and Lamb wanted to achieve, but were too selfish to bring about. Seriously though, Lamb is such an evil witch, an excellent villain, and an excellent foil to both Ryan and Delta. An excellent villain is basically everything you need to have an excellent story for a video-game, but then the devs went and bioshocked all over the place and made a masterpiece in both story and gameplay. It's criminal that this game isn't held up as one of the all-time greats.

The game itself is amazing, but sadly crash-ridden. Downloading a fan-made patch from Nexus Mods fixed the issue for me.