BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams

[Candyman5]

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Multiplayer is fun but I swear the grenade launcher is way to easy to use. All these games adding noob tubes IS ********.....COD STARTED SOMETHING BAD.

[sportsdude]

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Multiplayer is fun but I swear the grenade launcher is way to easy to use. All these games adding noob tubes IS ********.....COD STARTED SOMETHING BAD.

I'd like to hear some more impressions on multiplayer. After seeing a friend play this for a few minutes, I decided I wanted to play it. And deciding I wanted to play it means I have to beat the first one, first. But if the multiplayer is fun I may pick this one up just to hop in some games before everybody ditches it for the next new thing.

[Flightwhite24]

I forgot all about MP for this game. Been sitting in the wrapper for 2 days because I want to beat the 1st one. Guess ill be cracking this baby open later for a little MP while starting the Original Bioshock SP as well.

[Candyman5]

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I'd like to hear some more impressions on multiplayer. After seeing a friend play this for a few minutes, I decided I wanted to play it. And deciding I wanted to play it means I have to beat the first one, first. But if the multiplayer is fun I may pick this one up just to hop in some games before everybody ditches it for the next new thing.

The multiplayer is fun, has a COD ranking system. You ecieve ADAM(EXP) after a match and you lvl up to unlock new guns, weapons, plasmids, etc......There are very unique skills and powers in this game. Example: Like using a gyser trap on someone then switching to shock and hitting them with it while they are wet or freezing them with cold and hitting them with a dash attack. (IMO incenerate is way to powerful and the noob tube needs to be cut)

Multiplayer has interesting game modes also:
FFA (Free for all)
Civil War (Team Death Match)
Catch the sister (CTF)
Keep the sister (Odd Ball)
Then a game mode like king of the hill

[mgoblue678]

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It does get harder. I thought it was too easy at the beginning, but as I got deeper into the game, it definitely got harder and I started to miss on a lot more.

I beat the game this morning (on medium) so I'll give a quick non-spoiler review.


The game definitely seemed a lot harder than the first one. I don't think I ever really worried about dying in the first one, was never low on health packs or anything, but this one? I think I had to use a vita-chamber twice and there were numerous times when I was down to zero health packs after a big battle.

Speaking of the battles - the AI is so much better in this game, to me. I can't even stress that. Enemies team up on you, attack from all different angles, will run and take cover when you're gaining the upper hand in a battle or will run for a health station. I recommend hacking pretty much any health station you can - I must've gotten double-digit kills from just those stations alone killing enemies that tried to use ones that I have already hacked.

Speaking of hacking, as I said at the beginning of this post, the new hacking meter is definitely a lot easier at first, but it does get harder. The green/blue zones progressively get smaller, the needle goes faster, etc. I loved the new hacking meter...in my opinion it puts the stupid mini-game they had in the first one to shame. The best part of the hacking system, for me, was the fact that you hack mid-action, meaning you can't just hack during a battle and not have to worry. You are vulnerable while hacking and it adds a lot more "strategy" to the game. Not to mention the new remote hack tool made things a bit easier, and more strategic, as you could peek around a corner, shoot a hack-dart at a camera or turret, and then take cover behind the wall.

The Big Daddy Vs Big Sister debate isn't even close, for me. The Big Sisters blow the Daddies out of the water in terms of "Oh ****, I have to fight one right now?" Not to mention, AI-wise, the Big Sisters always destroyed the Big Daddies when I would sit back and watch the two go at it. They're...well, I don't know how to put this other than absolutely deadly. They're fast, they're powerful, they have powers, etc. They're just crazy.

The plasmids, while they're all the same as the first at the beginning, become badass once you get to the second and third levels of each. You can charge things up, combine powers and, in general, do some pretty badass things with them. I found myself needing to use the plasmids a lot more in this game, as well, because of the fact that the battles were tougher and you do not have the ability to hold as many health packs. There are also a few new plasmids, though I never unlocked them because I was so set in my ways with the ones from the first game.

The simplification of the "Gene Tonic/Physical Tonics" from the first game into just simply "Gene Tonics" (with a ****load of slots available to open at the Gatherer's Garden stations) made that whole aspect of the game a lot less confusing and a lot easier to navigate.

Weapon-wise, they're all mostly the same, but the spear gun is nasty and the mini-turrets you can throw out are wicked cool as well. I found myself sticking to the Rivet Gun, Drill, and .50 cal machine gun, though, as they seemed to work the best with the varying upgrades and different kinds of ammo.

Researching is a lot harder in this game, as you don't just snap pictures anymore. You have a film-camera, instead of a photo-camera, so you have to start the video and then film your battle with a specific splicer or enemy.


That's about all I can think of. If anyone on the fence of buying/renting/playing at all has any questions feel free to ask.

Without giving anything away . How was the story? I know it probably falls short of the first one but some of the reviews made it sound terrible.

Also how long was the game?

[XxUnrea1xX]

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online is super fun and love how u can unlock stuff while u go up throw the ranks and also love how u can be a big daddy in the online mode. the only thing i dont like about it is that people already know where and wen the big daddys suits spown and the noob tubes seem way to easy to kill with.

[jonpt]

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Excuse my ignorance cause I don't usually play multiplayer online games but what is noob tube?

[XxUnrea1xX]

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Its a grenade launcher on the bottom of a gun.

[Flightwhite24]

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Just started the 1st one tonight. Wow is pretty much how I can sum it up to this point. I'm not so sure I want to try and blaze through this one so I can start the 2nd. Loving the gameplay and the graphics.

Having a hard time trying to go back and forth between this and Mass Effect 2. Guess that's a good problem to have

[sportsdude]

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played the multiplayer tonight for about four straight hours, and I'm really digging it. This is my first experience with Bioshock so it's all still new to me, but the different plasmids and weapon combos are really fun to play around with. It didn't take long to find a game and the maps all seemed to be pretty cool. So far my only complaint is that some of the matches seemed a bit laggy. Also, and maybe this is just because the clowns at gamestop gave me an open game since the display box was the only copy left, but the game froze on me three times tonight.

[Candyman5]

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played the multiplayer tonight for about four straight hours, and I'm really digging it. This is my first experience with Bioshock so it's all still new to me, but the different plasmids and weapon combos are really fun to play around with. It didn't take long to find a game and the maps all seemed to be pretty cool. So far my only complaint is that some of the matches seemed a bit laggy. Also, and maybe this is just because the clowns at gamestop gave me an open game since the display box was the only copy left, but the game froze on me three times tonight.

Thats not just you, I always freeze and so do my friends.....

[sportsdude]

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Thats not just you, I always freeze and so do my friends.....

I asked a friend of mine last night if he had any freezing problems and he didn't, so to hear it's not just me is a relief.

[XxUnrea1xX]

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Yea it happens to me to. Its kind of annoying becuase you could be have a really good kill/death but then your xbox shuts down.

[Cebby]

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Without giving anything away . How was the story? I know it probably falls short of the first one but some of the reviews made it sound terrible.

Also how long was the game?

The story is solid enough. From what I got out of it though, this story is less a narrative of a single story like the first game had with Ryan vs Fontaine and more about Rapture in general. There is an overlying story, but a lot of it seems to fill in the blanks and show how things came to be. It feels much more "episodic" than the first game.

This game seemed more like a Bioshock 1.5 in terms of gameplay, though it's much harder.

The game's length is about 10-12 hours for me, but it feels longer because the areas are much longer. Instead of the ~15 30-60 minute areas of the first game, there are only about 7 areas in this with some taking about 2 hours.

The game is certainly good, but personally I'm worn out on Rapture. Unless they change things up a lot, I think I'm going to sit the series out from here. Now that the "mystery" is really out of Rapture (though there are some pretty neat sequences in the second game), a lot of the intrigue was gone. You already know why there are giant diving suits with drills, crazy little girls, and bunny people running around shooting fire.

It's still atmospheric, but it lacks the "OMG why did that guy with hooks just kill that guy" that took place in the first minute of Bioshock 1. Now, most of the tension is less on the "wow this is ****ed up" and more on the difficulty.

[Flightwhite24]

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I've put about 4 hours into the 1st one and in the beginning I was starting to like it but I don't think this series is for me. I have not opened the Bioshock 2 that my wife gave me for Valentines Day and I don't think I will.

Some games just are not for me and this is probably one of them. I did pay $20 for Bioshock 1 so I will probably just trade it in for credit in the future and just return Bio 2.

I tried and it's not for me. Peace!!!!