![]() There are opinion pieces, reviews and dissections on each of the games spread all over the internet. ![]() I don’t think there’s too much point in getting into a nitty-gritty discussion of all three games – which still stand as some of the most talked-about games in the history of the medium. You also get both chapters of Bioshock Infinite’s redeeming Burial at Sea DLC, which neatly ties the whole series up. ![]() That means you get the superlative BioShock 2 DLC Minerva’s Den (which is such a perfectly encapsulated standalone BioShock experience, that expertly captures everything that Bioshock is and has ever been about into a single episode). It bundles together Bioshock, Bioshock 2 and the late-last-generation BioShock Infinite along with each game’s DLC. The BioShock Collection, a remastered assemblae of the three games in the series, has found its way to Nintendo’s handheld after launching on the current consoles in 2016. It’s a weird and surreal feeling playing the game that graced my first HD TV over a decade ago, only this time on a diminutive screen attached to a portable device. Naturally, being able to play that game from the comfort of my bed (that weird, ambitious but misguided mobile phone port notwithstanding) is a wonder. I was so engrossed in the undersea yarn, and its warnings of the perils of Randian objectivism that the group of friends I played games with online started wondering if I was still alive. At the time, my friends and I (and roughly half of the online, South African game-playing population) played almost nothing but Gears of War’s online multiplayer (something that changed drastically with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’s release later that year). ![]() I didn’t know very much about the game before, I just knew that it was meant to the spiritual successor to System Shock 2. In 2007, I became enraptured by BioShock. ![]()
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