I flick through this tome of delights and horrors, and I feel incredibly sad. None of these things were in there - the Big Daddy with arms like tortured tentacles, another which looked like a spaceship on legs, the Splicer whose grotesquely mutated face had become a fleshy whirlpool, a hideous sea-beast halfway between a merman and giant phallus, a frail, frock-wearing Big Sister who carries her hulking oxygen tank around on a rickety hand cart. Earlier today, I was idly browsing through the art book that comes with the special edition of the game, and repeatedly I spotted designs that made a boyish thing in my brain exclaim "ooh, that looks ace! I can't wait to play Bioshock 2!" Only. Let's go into the less-good now though, as there's some stuff I want to get off my chest. I'll come back to why later, but I just wanted to state up front, before I have a big old whinge, that it's a really solid game in terms of killing nasty people in entertaining ways.
To start with the good: the combat's so much better. Let's accept that decision, and see where it leads to instead of forever thinking of the road not taken. Now, I have some real problems with that, which I'll get into shortly, but nothing is achieved by holding it against Shock 2 et al now - this is the path these games have chosen. Bioshock 2 is, lest it were not obvious, more of the same. well, it's not that easy, as we're spoiled for excellent choice, historically at least. When I reviewed Bioshock 2 for IGN - which I sort of wish Kieron hadn't already linked to in the Sunday Papers, as I was consciously writing for a very different audience - the question "would I rather these readers play this, or Modern Warfare 2?" was in my head at all times. On 360, it found much more acceptance for a reason: most 360 owners only had the likes of Halo and Gears of War to compare it to. Compare it to its direct contemporaries instead. It's a shame it didn't do some of the things they did, but that was its developers' decision. It found its own ways to be interesting (and its own ways to make a right old mess of a few things), but it was much closer to a traditional shooter than its perceived siblings. Poor Bioshock tried - and failed - to break into a very exclusive clique. You proud, loyal PCites are so steeped in gaming history, having experienced the best and brightest of brainy shooters - Deus Ex, System Shock, Stalker, X-COM: Enforcer, Vampire Bloodlines. Where to start? In a way, RPS is the worst possible place to be writing about Bioshock 2. Ended up with my camera phone balanced on the back of a chair, trying to hit the shutter button with my nose.
BIOSHOCK 2 DRILL BUILD FREE
You have no idea how difficult it was to arrange that photo, as obviously I didn't have a hand free to take it with.
BIOSHOCK 2 DRILL BUILD PC
I've got a PC copy of it here, which I can't currently play due to the stupid, paranoid unlock thing not happening til tomorrow, but I'll be firing it up and double-checking all matches up with these thoughts as soon as it does. I'll be checking BS2 PC out tomorrow, and if there's any sign of trouble or disparity with anything in this piece, rest assured there'll be posts about it. That would make me a liar, and I only lie about things that don't matter, like loving my family and whether I really finished reading that Stephen Hawking book. 360 is what we had access to for review, and, while largely speaking (based upon the differences between BS1 console and PC, and how technically similar this is to BS1) the experience should be very similar, I can't say that it definitely will be, or that those multiple forms of copy protection won't cause every PC in the world to turn into a chocolate muffin with chicken nuggets on top when it unlocks tomorrow. I know! I played it on a gamepad and everything! I'll be handing in my PC4EVA badge and gun momentarily, but before that it seemed wise to at least write up my experiences. I can't comment on exactly how sucky it is because this an opinion based on the 360 version of the game.
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