First time I played Bioshock 2 I ran into the same issues I got when I first played Twilight Princess: I focused so much on similarities with previous games (Ocarina of Time in Twilight Princess' case) that I ended up hurting my own enjoyment with the game.
I finished Twilight Princess and thought it was a good game but not on par with other Zelda games. Bioshock 2 I played for about half an hour, thought to myself that this was just more of the same with some female Big Daddies thrown in, and uninstalled it.

Years later I played Twilight Princess HD, went in with a more open mind and discovered a masterpiece. Bioshock 2 also got another chance and apart from the 'Protect the little sister' segments feeling a bit repetitive and tedious after a while (I don't think you had to do them all though) it was a great experience.

Was it really?! I dunno why...I loved the first to bits but the second threw me off quite early in the game. The whole idea of being the big daddy didn't really catch me.

Should I give it another go?! Hmmm..too many games to play anyway.

Thank you for this post..I had the exact same impression. It just felt too much of a rehash to me...I guess I really should give it another go. Had the same experience with Infinite btw...The fights just became so brutal and boring and I stopped caring..

Never played 2, but I wanted to love BioShock. It's world, story, dialogue, all top notch. But it became dull with fighting the same enemies over and over again, and no real penalty for dying.

Nah. They kept saying it was a rehash if the first game. It made me feel like it was more of an expansion pack than a new game. If I remember, it came out like a year later and, in my mind, that just wasn't enough Dev time for a good sequel.

*Edit* just looked at the release date. I'm full of shit, apparently.

Wow so much hate, I played all 3 and loved all of them. But I have to admit, first time around I dropped the first game and didn't like it. But years later I gave it and all games another chance and it just clicked.

I love it almost as much as the first game, and certainly waaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Infinite. I think it easily has the best gameplay in the series, it's got some great environments in Rapture (I especially like Ryan's Amusements), and while the story isn't quite as good as the first, I still think it's really good. I also really like the backstories of some of the characters, especially Alex the Great.

The game absolutely needs more love.

I personally like Bioshock 2 a lot, and found it a much better proposition than the other two games. It improves on almost everything over the first one while allowing us to dip more into the atmosphere of a broken Rapture, and playing as a pseudo-Big Daddy was awesome (Subject Delta more like, but yeah c'mon).

Can't really say I'm much of a fan of the first one or Infinite, though, so there's that.

I haven't player it yet. Infinite is One of my favourite games ever, played it three times plus dlc. Original was excellent too. I have the collection so i'll Be playing BioShock 2 soon.

I played the first game and, while I enjoyed the setting and atmosphere of it, I found it to be a good game, not the wonder everybody said it was.

With Bioshock 2 I guess something didn't made "click", because I only played a bit morethan an hour or so, and never came back to it.

I didn't bother with Infinity.

I would definitely recommend giving it a another try; it does start slow, but it picks up significantly the further you go, I found.

Did you kill or spare him? I found that a really hard choice, between the voice of his past (sane) self begging me too, and his insane mutant remains begging me to let him live.