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• Online and offline multiplayer modes including: Free-For-All, and Team Death Match and more.
• Return to the underwater city of Rapture where now the 'The Big Sister' is the toughest creature around.
• Play as the original the Big Daddy as you harness raw strength to battle Rapture¿s most feared denizens as you battle powerful new enemies.
• New game mechanics including the ability to wield plasmids and weapons simultaneously; flashback missions detailing how you became the Big Daddy; the ability to walk outside the airlocks of Rapture to discover new play areas, and many more.
• New game environments including Fontaine Futuristics, headquarters of Fontaine's business empire and the Kashmir Restaurant.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.57 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.37 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.57 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Release Date:
| February 09, 2010 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 57 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| Xbox 360 | | Media:
| Video Game | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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 awesome as expected.Mar 10, 2010
Short and Sweet review. Love the game. If you liked the first, you will love this one. would have liked to be slightly longer campaign.
One of the best games this year!Mar 10, 2010
I really love this game. If you are a huge fan of the first you will also love the second. There are two main games you can not miss this year, this one and god of war 3!
Great sequel, great gameMar 10, 2010
This game continues the tradition of superb story telling that was laid out in the first game of the franchise. Taking place 10 years after the original game you travel back to Rapture, this time as a Big Daddy to fight your way through the various venues of the city in search of you Little Sister. Game play is very similar to the original game so if you played the first BioShock your not going to experience anything radically new in this department. There are new foes to contend with outside the standard set of Splicers found in the first game, the most notable of which is the Big Sister. Story is still delivered through the Acu-Vox recordings that were present in the first game and radio communications. As a Big Daddy you have the ability to adopt little sisters which will allow you to gather ADAM for upgrading and the game continues the same moral choices regarding them as in the first game. New weapons are available as well and the usual suspects of vending machines and upgrade stations are available as well. A very enjoyable game and a good continuation of the Rapture story.
 A pale shadow of the first gameMar 10, 2010
I'll admit up front that I'm biased by my love of the first game. That story was cinematic, that gameplay was fast and fun, and those graphics were incredible. I pre-ordered the second game right away and just finished it.
Where the first game was about the fall of a utopia and the corruption of the leaders involved in its creation (power corrupts, etc.), this game is about the attempted resurrection of that utopia by any means necessary, in this case the abduction of children, basically putting forth the moral that the ends do not justify the means. A great idea, but the straightforward storytelling this time around really hampers everything. The first 2/3 of the game contains no storytelling surprises; the characters involved this time around are only moderately interesting; and the father/mother rivalry, while novel at first, is repeated so often with no further developments in the story arc that it became a yawn halfway through.
The new gameplay aspects sounded interesting before I bought the game, especially the idea of playing the entire game as a Big Daddy - something the first game only allowed me to do for the final boss battle. Unfortunately, the developers chose to "balance" the game by rewriting what it meant to be a "Big Daddy." This Big Daddy apparently wears spandex for armor because at the beginning of the game he dies after a couple good whacks from a wrench-wielding splicer, and he burns through Adam about as fast as a Hummer burning gasoline on the Autobohn. A better balancing act would have been to ratchet up the splicers' individual lethality or to have the splicers hunt in packs like wolves. One Big Daddy against a pack of coordinated splicers would have been a pretty sweet fight. Instead the developers gave us "Not-So-Big Daddy" against the same bad guys copied-and-pasted from the first game. At that rate I could have just replayed the first game (again).
The graphics are about as good as they were in the first game, but everything this time has a real been-here/seen-that feel to it. I enjoyed exploring new areas that weren't in the first game, such as the prisons and the nurseries (and I especially enjoyed the idea that a "utopia" would need prisons and rehabilitation - er, brainwashing - facilities), but there wasn't enough truly new stuff in the environments to instill in me that same sense of awe that I had playing the first game. And wandering around the ocean floor outside of Rapture was fun the first time I did it but bloody boring after that since there is almost nothing to do outside the buildings. Even the one shark I saw just ignored me and swam by.
I never played the multi-player so I cannot comment on that. I played the first Bioshock for the story, and I always planned to play the second one for that same reason. Unfortunately, this game failed to deliver. The story is mediocre, the new gameplay elements are only kind of fun, there was no game-changing twist like the first game had, and by the last four hours of playing this game the whole thing simply became for me an end-run to the final cutscene so I could say I finished it and then play something else. It's fun, but it's certainly not worth full price - unfortunately. Rent it or wait for the price to come down significantly. In the meantime, play the first Bioshock again. It's a far better, far more rewarding experience.
Awesome!Mar 09, 2010
Game is what you expect if you played the first Bioshock although to me it lacks a little creepy factor that I most enjoyed in the first game it's still a really cool fun game. The multiplayer for me is much easier to play as oposed to a cod or halo multiplayer that can be hard to adapt to at least with the plasmids in this game you get a chance to kill people lol but all in all well worth the $$ spent : )
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