But as someone who played the first game around its release, this remaster doesn’t exactly feel better. Based on my short time with the series, it lives up to its modest ambitions, though it makes me wonder how, exactly, I want to experience older games.īoth BioShock and BioShock 2 are unambiguously upgraded: textures are finer, images higher-resolution, effects like water and fire more convincing. But it’s primarily a matter of upgrading the game’s framerate and graphics, which were showing their age after nine years for BioShock and six years for BioShock 2. In the case of BioShock: The Collection, the remaster does add a few extra features, like a series of commentary videos and a walkable museum of concepts that didn’t make it into BioShock. A game remaster can mean lots of things: updating the visuals rerecording the score changing control schemes adding or removing chunks of content. ( Infinite’s PC version 'already meets current-gen console standards,' says publisher 2K.)Ī video game remaster isn’t as cut and dry as, say, remastering an album. The collection includes BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite, all but the last remastered for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Last week, I spent a couple hours with BioShock: The Collection, a compilation of the classic BioShock series.
