One of the best action-adventure game sequels ever, BioShock 2, was released on February 9, 2010. It was written by Jordan Thomas and published by 2K Games. It stars some of the best voice actors, including Sarah Bolger, Fenella Woolgar, and Doug Boyd.

BioShock 2 is one of the best first-person action-adventure games ever created. It is a great follow-up to the original game from 2007. 

The game begins with a Big Daddy, named Subject Delta, who has been brought back to life after he was forced to kill himself ten years ago. Later on, we get introduced to several characters, including Sofia Lamb, the leader of the Rapture family cult, voiced by Fenella Woolgar. We also meet Sofia’s daughter Eleanor Lamb, whom we must save, and is voiced by Sarah Bolger. Another key character is Augustus Sinclair, our ally and guide through the city of Rapture. We also discover that before becoming a Big Daddy, Subject Delta used to be Johnny Topside, a former celebrity, who previously discovered the underwater city of Rapture during one of his deep-sea dives. 

Continuing from the first BioShock, there are many new Plasmids we can use, which are superpowers you can acquire throughout the game. Along with the return of Telekinesis, a Plasmid called Summon Eleanor allows you to summon the character to fight alongside you, once you free her from the grasp of her mother. Another great one is Hypnotize, which allows you to hypnotize any enemy to be your ally for a short period of time. You can still buy Plasmids like these at Gatherers’ Gardens vending machines, which are scattered throughout Rapture. 

The plasmids aren’t the only good thing, as the new Splicers that appear throughout the game are also fun to battle. The best ones are Brute Splicers, which can charge and throw debris at the player, and the Crawlers, which climb on walls and ceilings. You can still battle Houdini Splicers, but instead of turning invisible, like they do in the first BioShock game, they now constantly teleport, making it more challenging to kill them. 

The downloadable content for this game, that you can buy for a couple of bucks, is also pretty good, and each update gives us some more information about Rapture. One example of this is called “Minerva’s Den,” which follows another Big Daddy, Subject Sigma, who is tasked with retrieving a super-computer called “The Thinker” from Reed Wahl. Another good DLC is the “Protector Trials”, which requires the player to protect a Little Sister from Splicers while she gathers Adam from corpses. 

So make sure you check out this amazing game, and you can play both BioShock 2, and the original game, on most major consoles and through Steam. And if you enjoyed this game, I suggest you play BioShock Infinite and its DLCs, which are also pretty good.