The development of plasmids–an injected serum that alters the genetic code of an individual and imbues powerful abilities–tips the balance of power and causes the deterioration of its society and citizens. In case you missed it in 2007, the game is set in 1960 in an underwater dystopia called Rapture, built with the intention of being free from government and religious oppression, aiming to be a beacon for art and science. Okay, perhaps less so in handheld mode – but that’s somewhat a-given with first-person shooters due to the smaller Joy-Con.īioShock on the Switch felt familiar to my last experience playing the game back in the early 2010s on an Xbox 360. Indeed, in 2020 it’s expected that a decade-old series would run well on contemporary hardware, but I can’t overstate how great these games feel on the Switch. In either mode the Collection runs at a smooth 30 FPS (though there were some very rare moments where the frame rate dipped ever so slightly in crazy firefights), and retrospectively benefit from their art direction.
On Switch, the Collection runs surprisingly well, maintaining a crisp 1080p resolution while docked and 720p in handheld mode, with some absent anti-aliasing. Minerva’s Den and the Burial at Sea episodes are the only DLC really worth digging into as they are all excellent vignettes that help flesh out the BioShock universe. The original BioShock’s DLC includes a set of challenge rooms and The Museum of Orphaned Concepts, which features a walk-through showroom of character models BioShock 2 has the Protector Trials and Minerva’s Den and finally BioShock Infinite with Clash in the Clouds, Burial at Sea parts 1 & 2, and Columbia’s Finest Pack. What a world.īioShock: The Collection comes with all three mainline installments–BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock Infinite–as well as their respective expansions. But now, in 2020, I can easily switch from treasure tracking with Captain Toad, to sky-hooking fascists in the eye in BioShock Infinite like it ain’t no thang.
In 2007, if you told me BioShock would eventually come to a Nintendo console, I probably would have looked over at you, down at my Wiimote, then back to you, and laugh.
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