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BioShock 2 Remastered
Big Daddy is back and has never looked better.
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Feral Interactive feralinteractive.com £19.99, $19.99, 19.99 €
Although Apple has constantly pushed and developed the Mac’s ability to deliver a gaming experience akin to their PC counterparts, when held in direct comparison, the software differences are crushing to all those that have chosen the Microsoft gaming route. At the FPS genre’s inception, PC gamers could immerse themselves in the depths of hell with Doom while we Mac owners tried to convince ourselves that Marathon was just as good. It wasn’t! The Mac has never been considered a gamer's machine, yet over the years the blurring of the internal specs and the sheer horsepower of Apple’s machines has made bigger, better games possible. Why haven’t we seen a balance between big-name Mac and PC games? Take, for example, Feral Interactive’s Mac release of the fantastic 2016 game, BioShock 2 Remastered. Mac gamers shouldn’t really be heralding the positives of a re-issue, we should be sharing the same soapbox as PC gamers moaning how broken Cyberpunk 2077 is!
There’s no doubt that BioShock 2 is still great. The future-noir setting and the art style impress, and the game offers everything you would expect from the franchise. A cinematic single-player mode, numerous multiplayer modes and all the expected DLC. BioShock 2 retains everything fans would want, and for those readers, there will be no further motivation needed to hit the Buy button.
BioShock fandom aside, this is a polished port of a dated but still enjoyable game that delivers the expected thrills and lifespan those familiar with the series would expect. Despite this, if you remove the nostalgia by placing this game in the hands of a first-time desktop gamer, BioShock 2 quickly shows its increasing age; new coat of paint or not. Worse still, when placed alongside contemporaries on Windows-based hardware, for those taking their first swim in the BioShock waters, the overall feeling will be that sinking sensation of being short-changed. How much longer will we have to wait until games developers treat the Mac with the respect it is so richly deserves? I for
