14
RAPTURE
REVISITED
B
ioshock always will
mean something to
me, as a major bonding experience and a
series that was my first
delve into proper console gaming. So when I
heard there was a col-
9.5/10
OVERALL
SCORE
lection of all the games
coming out, and that
BIOSHOCK: THE
COLLECTION
they were remastered,
you can imagine how
excited I was. But how
did it fare compared
to the originals? Let’s
break it down into three
major areas: Gameplay, Graphics, and
Extras.
WOULD YOU
KINDLY?
(GRAPHICS)
To me, this game
was already somewhat
beautiful to begin with.
But now that all the
textures are layered
properly and blend
BY AMY PAGE
together,
it’s more
realistic looking. The
Splicers are scarier,
the
Big
Daddies
more intense. It’s in
living, vivid color that
compared to the old
game pops like an
Art Deco piece. Its
atmospheric effect is
intense, because the
splicers look more
grotesque and even
somewhat
more
mutated than they did
in the first game.
Jack,
Booker,
Elizabeth, all the major
human character’s skin
looks more normal
than it did originally.
While Infinite did make
progress with skin
looking like skin, this
takes it to a new level.