Bioshock II CE

This is my first post here on the man corps blog site. I am vbearsays (or as this site has me, my online alias pcq stevenson). I've never used this blogsite before, and have a somewhat established blog at vbearsays.tumblr.com I'll most likely be rebloging my stuff from there onto here as if it fits.




So I beat Bioshock II, and it only took me the weekend. I couldn't have played it for more than 16 hours (if that), and I didn't come close to dying once. I'm not trying to sound cocky or anything, but come on.

**Caution: May contain subtle spoilers. Not intended**

As far as plot goes, it sort of seemed like they were trying to justify a second by all the audiotapes you find in the beginning, so the sequel made sense. After that however, the plot was pretty bad ass. I kind of hoped that when you met your buddy Sinclair, that you'd actually be able to do stuff with him, and he wouldn't just be chilling out of frame talking to you every once in a while, but at least they didn't make him like Frank Fontaine from the first. I thoroughly enjoyed the ending however. Nonetheless, I'll have to replay the first (most likely on difficult, when I'm bored) in order to be 100% on how the plot flowed from the first to the second.

Gameplay was definitely par from the first. Like I said in the beginning, I didn't come close to dying once on Medium difficulty, and although the epic battle/boss fights were a bit difficult, they weren't as nearly challenging for me as the first. Definitely should've started on Hard so the game would've lasted longer than the weekend consisting of two-three solid 3+ hour sittings. What made the gameplay par was the updated plasmids are pretty fucking sweet, although I didn't use them all; and the sheer amount of tonics that you can not only buy but can use (I believe you can use like 20 or 30 at once).

I haven't tried the online expirience yet, and I'm a bit curious on how that whole thing is. To be honest I was thrown off when I heard that it was going to have an online multiplayer aspect as well.

Anyways, for the Collecter's/Special Edition. The box itself is pretty fucking sweet; feels and smells sexy. The score for the first on vinyl is amazing (i'm a sucker for vinyl, it's my preferred medium of music/comedy. fuck itunes), and the composer's little story on the back is pretty neat. The posters I'm definitely going to hang up and frame, those posters and the vinyl is the main reason i paid the extra $40 for the CE. I was shocked for how much effort they put into the art book; I'm not one to go to museums and look at art pieces for more than 5 minutes, but some of the art in there is pretty nice. 168 pages of bioshock art will satisfy me anytime, even if i look at it only once or twice.

Other than that if you enjoyed the Original Bioshock, I would recommend buying the sequel. If not now, in a month or two or whenever you can get it for $50. I personally don't regret buying the CE at all, but I could see how some people would, especially when i beat it in two days.