Playing A Game BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 PC

Burial at Sea - Episode 2 does a much, much better job of delivering a coherent gameplay experience than the first episode did. It's still not as good, mechanically, as BioShock proper: "hacking" is still dumbed-down, there's really only one good plasmid, side-quests are surprisingly lacking (so many empty rooms!), and enemy encounters aren't varied enough to hold up a full-length game. But it works.

Unfortunately, just as in BioShock Infinite, the main attraction here is the story -- and that story leans heavily on shocking revelations about the links between Rapture and Columbia. Revelations which are no longer shocking in a second playthrough.

Burial at Sea still feels like a fitting narrative epilogue to BioShock Infinite; but I don't think there's any reason to play it more than once.

Better than: BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 1
Not as good as: BioShock Infinite
As for Irrational Games: now "Ghost Story Games," well... we'll see.

Rating: Good