Bioshock 2 Review

Hey guys!

I've been unholy busy lately. So I've decided to take another day to post. (It's Wednesday SOMEWHERE, right?)

Bioshock 2 is the sequel to 2k Marin's Bioshock. A 40's themed underwater city in the mid-Atlantic meant for scientific research went wrong there before the series. An element called "ADAM" (Which grants the user the ability to automatically alter their genetics, very painfully) drew people insane and crazed for the substance.

The second game takes place 10 years after the end of the first game, in a future where the evil ruler Andrew Ryan has been killed and eventually overthrown by a Dr. Sophia Lamb.

You play as a big daddy in this game (Large man in a diving suit), trading up the wrench melee weapon for a personal hand-drill. But you're not just ANY big daddy. You are the FIRST big daddy. Subject Delta. One of the few still capable of free thought.

Here's where the story gets interesting. In the first game, to get to these little girls who are precursors of ADAM, you had to kill their Big Daddy. The new leader of Rapture, Dr. Lamb once had a daughter, who became Delta's Little Sister. Lamb found this out, and she is not pleased. She tries to make you kill yourself over her. You wake up, many many many many years later in a Vita-Chamber (Chamber used to revive when you die.). Bent on revenge, and getting your little sister back.

The gameplay is fun and adds a lot to the original controls. It focuses on dual-wielding weapons using the shoulder buttons. It works well, and I found it easy to grasp.

The storyline does NOT match that of Bioshock 1's by a long shot. It's choppy at times and it's really kind of silly. I really do not care for it at all, it could have been a lot stronger.

Overall Bioshock 2 was good, just not as good as Bioshock. I give it 8 full EVE hypos, out of 10.