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1. GoGame Review #10- Bioshock 2
   

   Player Chronicle -- Posted on Mar 09 2010

   I finally have time to write a review! I've been really busy lately with school and basketball, but now that basketball is over and it is almost Spring Break, and the MW2 hex is starting to go away, I finally am writing a review.
   
   Bioshock 2 is the sequel to the game of the year award winning Bioshock. Bioshock 2 takes the series to a whole new level with the new point of view you play from, and the amazing multiplayer that they added.
   
   
   SETTING
   
   Bioshock 2 takes place in the underwater world of Rapture in the 50s/60s, I can't remember at the moment. You find your self moving around this world of tubes and leaky structures never forgetting that you are not above sea level. The leaky structures really adds an aged atmosphere to the game, which is you saw the beginning cut scene, you would understand why this is a very good thing to have in this game. I also enjoy how you travel from building to building via tubes connecting the city. It really gives you that underwater feeling that you see in movies and T.V. shows that take place in underwater environments. This game also does have a little bit of time when your actually in the water swimming, but to be perfectly honest its rather boring and all your doing is going from point A to point B.
   
   GAMEPLAY
   
   In Bioshock you played as just a regular man. I must admit, I did not play much of Bioshock but I did not like it for that simple fact, being a normal dude with a wrench and a revolver is pretty boring. Bioshock 2, however, took it to a whole new level. You now play as a character known as a Big Daddy. For those of you new to the Bioshock series as I am, the Big Daddy is a giant robot type creature that protects Little Sisters. Little Sisters are mutated girls that are roaming around rapture. I knew this game would be fun when the default weapon is a big @$$ drill that rips people apart. You, personally do not have a Little Sister with you, but that is because the main objective of the game is to get to your Little Sister, with a few twists and turns along the way.
   
   GRAPHICS
   
   The graphics in Bioshock 2 are interesting to me. The game is naturally dark because of where it takes place and what has happened to the city over time, but I think it is a little to dark. I would like to see a little more brightness, not with actually lighting elements in the games, such as lamps, ceiling lights, etc., but the actually way the game was designed a little more light would be nice. The game does look good in my mind, but the graphics seem to be plain. The way Bioshock 2 is in my mind, is they replace a little bit of that time spent on graphics and design, and work on the storyline with that spare time, and with how Bioshock 2's story is, I have no problem with that.
   
   SOUND
   
   The sound in Bioshock 2 is amazing. There is never a time when it is quite, if there is not music from the 50s and 60s playing, there is sound effects that fit the situation perfectly. The voice acting is also very good. There are audio diaries around the city that you can pick up and listen to, as well as the characters themselves, the both sound very good and well fitting to the characters appearance. The 2K team really made sure to add to the amazing storyline of Bioshock 2 by adding amazing sound effects and music.
   
   VIEWS
   
   Bioshock 2 has a first person camera view from inside the Big Daddy you play as. One thing I really like about the camera in Bioshock 2, is that you character is wearing a full helmet, but that helmet does give you tunnel vision, you can see everywhere around you without having an annoying helmet in the way. Since it is first person the camera angle never changes unless you change the direction you look, so there is not a whole lot to put in this section of the review.
   
   MULTIPLAYER
   
   Bioshock 2 added multiplayer for those gamers out there that barely even know the terms, campaign or story mode (BEN :wink The idea of multiplayer in a Bioshock game probably does not sound that great since they do really push the single player campaign mode rather then the multiplayer, but this one turned out great. It is very Call of Duty like in the way the multiplayer works. You gain XP for kills and assists, as well as killstreaks, you complete challenges, you create classes, however there are only 3 in Bioshock 2, and you unlock weapons and attachments along the way. There are a few different things however. In the campaign you have things called plasmids.They are powers that you can shot from your hand to damage the enemy, make it harder for your enemy to damage the enemies health, as well as make it harder for them to attack you. The longer you charge the plasmid, the bigger the blast. Plasmids can run out of there source of energy, called Eve, but that can be stocked up on from Eve machines as well as little containers of Eve scattered across the map.
   
   FINAL THOUGHTS
   
   Bioshock 2 is a great game for those of us gamers that love single player, multiplayer, or both, and is totally worth the money.
   
   Buy/Sell- Buy
   
   Next Review- hopefully Battlefield: Bad Company 2

   
   

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