Whilst Bioshock was a nice tight package of a game, this is a bit bloated in places and has plenty of issues. Firstly, that story - yeeeesh, does it just go on and on. The last couple of levels I found myself rushing through to finish it off, with recordings playing I wasn't even registering and enemies just ignoring me. Speaking off the last levels, the environments in those and several other levels were very samey - not nearly as much variety as the original, and even the supposed colourfest of Dionysus Park was drowning in greys and browns.

Gameplay wise it hasn't done too much from the first - seemed to be a lot more shooting gallery segments than the first where enemies just appear out of thin air. Despite playing as big Daddy the guns and Plasmids are mostly the same as the first, though even the new weapons I found myself ignoring.

I can see why this is seen as the black sheep, because it really doesn't stack up well despite the number of studios working on it - every element of it was just underwhelming compared to the first Bioshock.