Bioshock 2 trophy guide upgrade#

Including the iconic Drill melee weapon which Big Daddies tend to carry around with them. Now, we’re equipped with the big boy guns, a Rivet Gun, a Spear-gun, a Gatling gun and more. Advertisements Big Daddy’s Big ArsenalĬombat comes in a nicer package too, being that you’re now a Big Daddy, normal-sized weapons would be too small for your big hands. There seems to be a lot more lighting, breaking up the visuals much better and helping to make the areas easier to differentiate. I will say that not everything is so dark in the environments now, though. A trip to the theatre with my Little Sister. Their movements are more unsettling and creepy and their faces and proportions are super uncanny, leaving a feeling of definite discomfort in the base of your stomach when you first see them.Įven the environments feel more lively, there’s real diversity in what you’re seeing, not just the ability to take short walks outside of Rapture on the seabed (as I mentioned in my Bioshock review) but also the interiors are a lot more diverse, changing more drastically with each new area of Rapture you explore, albeit, still not all that much. In the first game, they were just goofy-looking and not all that threatening but in Bioshock 2 the Spider Splicers are genuinely terrifying. Advertisements Look how creepy this dude is! They’re so cool.

The best overhaul in my eyes is the Spider Splicers. The character model overhauls are fantastic, Little Sisters look more human and less like bug-eyed freaks, Big Daddies look more threatening, even Splicers look much cooler. They may have also improved the textures a lot, but as I’m playing on PS4, all of the textures look great regardless. However, 2K kind of surprised me here by remaking the models of every enemy.

Bioshock 2 trophy guide upgrade#

Usually, when developers make a sequel to a game, they’ll upgrade a few textures here and there, maybe add some new enemy types, but the look of the game will be pretty similar. In that sense, I think Bioshock 2’s story is much weaker than the original Bioshock’s story, which is unfortunate because this sequel certainly looks much better… A visual upgrade

I have a really difficult time empathising or relating with any of them enough to care about what’s happening with them. Half of them you don’t get to know properly in the length of time that you see them, and the rest have zero character development or complex backstory. Tenenbaum makes a return in her role from the first game as carer for the Little Sisters

Maybe it’s just me, but I just didn’t care about any of them. Once again, the game fails to get me invested in any of the characters, they just assume that by saying “Your character cares about this character” I’m suddenly going to care about them too. To reach it we have to make our way through several other parts of Rapture, with each visit to the next area we need to complete some task involving another side-character or new Plasmid ability in order progress to the next area. I’m thinking back to the story now and I’m thinking there might have been no twists.Įssentially, we have an end goal which is in a certain, distant part of Rapture. The story pans out in a pretty similar way to the first one, just with less twists. Find out what Lamb is doing with our Little Sister, find our Little Sister… Profit? Advertisements Apparently, Lamb is always watching. Your connection to Eleanor ties you to the story of the main protagonist, the aforementioned bitch, “Lamb”.

You’re a Big Daddy, you’ve been sort of dead for a while, you’re looking for your favourite Little Sister in all of Rapture, and there’s a bit of a bitch in control of Rapture now that the bellend from the first game is gone. That’s pretty much all we know going into the game. You’ve got this whole backstory about how you used to be the Big Daddy to one specific Little Sister (even though Little Sisters seem pretty communal in the world of Bioshock – as wrong as that might sound) called Eleanor. I gotta admit, though, they’re just about the coolest thing about Bioshock. They’re not that strong, even on Hard Mode, they don’t attack you on sight so there’s no reason to fear them. However, not knowing what a Big Daddy was, I was certain they had to be some incredible, powerful enemy. And it seemed as though the only reason people liked it so much was because you “played as a Big Daddy”, which meant nothing to me. They liked Bioshock 1 and all but they loved Bioshock 2. I feel like when I was hearing about Bioshock all those years ago in school, the big one people were talking about was Bioshock 2. But without a difficulty glitch and with tougher enemies, how did I fare? Bioshock 2 Review Advertisements After playing Bioshock for the first time and getting that platinum I felt more than ready to plat the sequel.