A good core gameplay loop mired by a series of terrible writing decisions. The first 15% is pretty fun, pretty solid. Setting up a lot of good ideas and being a decent enough edition to the bioshock franchise. Then it starts to slowly decline until the piss-poor ending. Terrible fuax-intellectual "What if the poor people were evil too" story beats, some weird statements about race and capital S "Society". Then there are the DLCs, which I believe is what was the final blow that killed the Bioshock series. A completely unnecessary and unfortunate collage of half baked ideas. I could only recommend this if you're absolutely determined to experience the whole of the bioshock series. Otherwise you're better off looking at the concept art and making up a game in your head, it would be leagues more satisfying than the real thing.

Reviewed on May 12, 2022


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