A port of BioShock
The year is 1960 and the player character, Jack, is on board a plane crossing the Atlantic ocean. Things go wrong though and the plane crashes. Jack is lucky though and finds himself outside a lighthouse. This is no ordinary lighthouse however. It leads to Rapture, an Utopian underwater city built by the tycoon Andrew Ryan. It's not long until Jack is contacted by a man called Atlas who offers Jack his support.
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This might have been the real source of my dinky-sideport obsession.
This game is UNBELIEVABLY DEEP (see what i did there) for a stupid-ass mobile port.
Funnily enough I've slightly turned on the 'real' BioShock over the years, but this dumbass game. pure gold.
So what's actually here: Bioshock 2d is a top-down crpg in the vein of fallout 1.The game recreates nearly all the core mechanics of BioShock in this perspective down to the non-linear level design, unlocks, hacking minigame, and multifaceted combat system.
It manages only a few levels of this before abruptly ending, with dreams of more 'episodes' you're even given a code that presumably would've allowed you to carry your inventory into the next game.
it's fun, for the 50 minutes you'll be playing it, but I'm slightly more fascinated by the potential here. It's no Doom RPG but it's arguably more ambitious.
I can see why people might think games like this were cynical derivatives of popular franchises but I have to disagree. there's so much actually going on here that it makes me want to experience the entire game as a top-down demake.
This can be emulated without too much trouble on j2me, the bindings are a bit all over the place but it's manageable. I highly recommend giving it a shot to see one of the most fascinating dead ends of gaming history.
This game is UNBELIEVABLY DEEP (see what i did there) for a stupid-ass mobile port.
Funnily enough I've slightly turned on the 'real' BioShock over the years, but this dumbass game. pure gold.
So what's actually here: Bioshock 2d is a top-down crpg in the vein of fallout 1.The game recreates nearly all the core mechanics of BioShock in this perspective down to the non-linear level design, unlocks, hacking minigame, and multifaceted combat system.
It manages only a few levels of this before abruptly ending, with dreams of more 'episodes' you're even given a code that presumably would've allowed you to carry your inventory into the next game.
it's fun, for the 50 minutes you'll be playing it, but I'm slightly more fascinated by the potential here. It's no Doom RPG but it's arguably more ambitious.
I can see why people might think games like this were cynical derivatives of popular franchises but I have to disagree. there's so much actually going on here that it makes me want to experience the entire game as a top-down demake.
This can be emulated without too much trouble on j2me, the bindings are a bit all over the place but it's manageable. I highly recommend giving it a shot to see one of the most fascinating dead ends of gaming history.
Anyone remember this awful port lol?