With a story that feels like it properly bookends nearly ten years of games, it’s the one that feels the most mechanically familiar, as Irrational put the jump button in the right place on the controller. Infinite then, also includes all the DLC (the alright Cash in the Clouds, and the far-better Burial at Sea episodes) and, yes, it’s still the best of the bunch. Yes, it very much felt like BioShock 1.5 at the time, but the excellent Minerva’s Den DLC is included, and although the actually-decent-at-the-time multiplayer has been removed, I’d still say BioShock 2 is worth playing for the story and how it flips some mechanics on their head a bit. The red-headed stepchild of the bunch, BioShock 2 is a far better game than ever given credit for. It still ends abruptly, too, and the controls don’t feel right. That said, BioShock has aged, it almost feels like someone was harsh in the editing suite because there’s none of the pomp and circumstance of the most modern games you just start playing and it’s on. Like all of the games included in the Collection, there is bonus content galore, including a museum so large and packed with things to explore, you can actually save your game and revisit another time. BioShock still has a brilliant opening, full of dark, foreboding moments and one of the best twists following some of the most wonderfully written foreshadowing in games from that era.
What we’ve got here is a very nice looking (though obviously not 4K) set of BioShock games that run smoothly with nary a frame-rate hiccup that I spied in my time across the three games.įirst up, the one that started it all. Ported by a developer with previous for getting the most out of Switch ports and, indeed, the other collections in XCOM 2 and Borderlands run well, too.
BioShock: The Collection can add to the list on the other side of the spectrum, then, as this is a cracking package that is well worth investing in.īut the BioShock collection had already been remastered for Xbox One, PS4 and, I suppose, PC. Doom looks rough as a badger’s arse, Overwatch has half the frames, and The Outer Worlds has multiple problems, though it’s admittedly a miracle it runs on the hybrid handheld-home console at all. It shouldn’t startle anyone to learn that a thirteen year old game that was on Xbox 360 and PS3 runs well on Switch, but it’s rare you see these kinds of games on the console without some form of concession.
Now and again, Nintendo’s bundle of joy throws up a surprise that, in all honesty, shouldn’t actually be that shocking.
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