This game shits on everything that Bioshock accomplishes. In terms of it being a video game that's placed within the Bioshock series, it sits as a total mess and misinterpretation of everything that the original wanted to do. Nothing about this game's spirit or ideology meshes with what players should expect from a Bioshock game. It is a failure on all parts Bioshock, made worse by it's insistence on it's shitty "both sides are bad" ideology. What makes it worse is that the centrist ideology is largely associated with libertarianism, which is exactly what the first game in the series is intended to critique. It came out in a time where this mindset was both unappreciated and insulting, and that hasn't changed in 8 years.

From a gameplay perspective, it's... Fine. It is a game that I can sit down in front of, use Bucking Bronco on a group of enemies, shotgun them out of the air, go "nice, that was cool", and then move on. Some parts shine and are genuinely pretty fun, and if you play this game on it's own apart from it's place in the series, it's enjoyable in it's own right just for some decent gunplay. This reason alone is why I have played the game more than once.

The sci-fi weird plot twist story kind of sucks, but it's mildly enjoyable just to see it unravel.

All in all, it's a mediocre game that's sort of turned into a sinful one by taking a fat fucking dump on the legacy of Bioshock and other immersive sims as a whole.

Reviewed on Apr 19, 2021


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