7 years late to the party, but I finally got around to playing this one, and I just finished it last night.
I'm really surprised nobody ever talks about this game. It's almost like it doesn't exist, even back in 2010 when it released I don't remember it getting much fanfare. It's a shame really, because I personally thought it was excellent.
I mean yeah, it's not as original or mindblowing as he first game or Infinite, and Rapture isn't quite as impactful the second time around, but its story, characters, and combat are still top notch in my opinion.
In fact, I'd actually say the combat was even better than the first game, thanks to the ability to use Plasmids and guns simultaneously instead of having to switch between them, and scenarios that offered more and better opportunities to make use of traps, turrets, and other such tricks.
Sofia Lamb was a marvellous villain, in that she almost never came across as cartoonishly malicious or hateful, but more as someone who genuinely thought she was doing the right thing but ended up taking her ideology too far. Most video game villains rant, rave, sneer and scream, but her calm and analytical demeanor was a fresh change of pace.
Other characters were similarly well done, in that they had nearly all had developed backstories and real motives for behaving as they did. I genuinely struggled over whether to kill or spare some of them when given the choice. Which is something else the game does very well; the moral choices, and particularly the way they inform the way the game's final hours play out.
There may not have been the traditional "big twist" like in the first game or Infinite, and it takes a while to build up steam, but even so the story kept me guessing, and was overall intelligent, creative, and engaging.
Anyone else really like this one?
