BioShock 2 | Xbox 360

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About the Game

Ten years have passed since the events in BioShock . The underwater-city Rapture has further deteriorated, with water breaking in everywhere and whole sections flooded by water. But as bad as the situation is, the city still isn’t empty. After Andrew Ryan’s death, his long adversary, the psychiatrist Dr. Sophia Lamb took over the helm – embracing her own cult, making the mutated splicers that roam the city her worshippers.

Story & Setting

players slips into the mighty boots of Delta, making his way in a typical first-person-shooter-style through the city of Rapture to find and confront Dr. Sophia Lamb, who holds Eleanor against her will.

Gameplay & Core Systems

The switch of perspective, in the first game players were a normal human, also brings with it a few changes in gameplay. The most important being, that players can now use both one of the eleven available plasmids and one of the several different weapons at the same time, allowing him to burn enemies while pumping them full of bullets. Other plasmids include “Winter Blast” which freezes an enemy or “Scout” which allows players to leave his body and look around unnoticed. The weapons on the hand range from the famous Big-Daddy-Drill over a powerful double-barrel-shotgun to a grenade launcher. As in the first game, both weapons and plasmids are upgradeable.

Standout Features

• While the weapons just require players to find a special workstation, upgrades for plasmids and tonics (granting passive effects) are bought at special vending machines called “Gatherer’s Garden” with the rare substance called “Adam”.
• While players still needs to kill the accompanying Big Daddy to get access to the Little Sister, he can choose to adopt it afterwards instead of just harvesting it.
• Once a Little Sister has harvested two bodies, players can again either harvest her himself, or free her.
• Another important change is the new hacking-mini-game which is the same in all versions now and requires players to hit the green or blue spaces on a gauge with a constantly spinning needle.
• A successful hack on the other will lower the prices at vending machines or turn turrets over to players’ side.
• The new mini-game also allows players to fight and walk around while hacking as well as hacking from a distance thanks to the arrows shot by the hacking-tool.
• BioShock 2 features multiplayer for up to 10 players which was developed independently from the single player by a different developer and tells the story before the first game.
• Big Daddy: Each mode also features the possibility of one player slipping into the role of a Big Daddy.

Modes & Ways to Play

The available multiplayer-mode include Deathmatch, Team-Deathmatch, Capture and Hold, Capture the Sister and Adam Grab.

Player support includes Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS) and Team.

Presentation & Atmosphere

Setting down a Little Sister to harvest a body will unleash hell as every splicer in the level will try to kill her, requiring players to protect the little girl from harm until its finished collecting. If he doesn’t hit the right field, he either gets a electro-shock or will sound the alarm.

Display support includes HDTV 720p, HDTV 1080i, and HDTV 1080p. Audio support includes Dolby Digital.