greenpenguino said:
After playing Bioshock 1 and quite a bit of Infinite (I've been told by loads of friends to steer clear of 2, as they don't think it's particularly good) I was thinking that maybe a Bioshock game set in space might be fairly good, even though it kind of already exists in the form of 'System Shock'.
I feel like a space or moon base setting would be kind of bland. Games have taken us to places like that countless times already. I do wish they'd release an HD version of System Shock 2 on PSN and XBL. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. It is a fun game, but I've never managed to get it working smoothly enough on a modern system to beat it. There are always extreme texture errors that made it unpleasant to play, or it ends up crashing on me every so often.
Bioshock 2 is a lot of fun, Greenie. The first one holds a really unique and special place in gaming history, it was a phenomenal game. Two takes you back to Rapture with much of the same game play, a few new weapons and plasmids, and a few new enemies, and improves on a few other things. It isn't groundbreaking in the slightest, but it is still well worth playing if you really enjoyed the first game and wouldn't mind continuing the experience. I found the storyline pretty fun too, even though it isn't meaningful in a way the first one was. BS2 didn't try to one up or out do the first game, which I respect. It is a good sequel.
I feel about it much the same as I do about The Planet of the Apes sequels. The first movie took us on an intriguing journey, and drove home a point at the end. The sequels just carried us along on fun journeys in the same universe. But while I'd consider the Apes sequels guilty pleasures of mine, Bioshock 2 is just a really good game that lives in the shadow of its predecessor and gets criticism for it. If you enjoyed searching and looting every nook and cranny of Rapture, getting into rows with Big Daddies, and found the world fascinating, you'd be robbing yourself by not playing this game. While it isn't the first Bioshock, it is still 99% better than the vast majority of current gen games out there.