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BioShock 2

Game » consists of 24 releases. First released on Feb 09, 2010

Awoken ten years after the events of the first game, you must unravel the mystery behind the Big Sisters and your own past in the ruined underwater city of Rapture.

ElectroBolt Issue

#1 Posted by dpedal1 (189 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago

So after playing through Bioshock 2 for the first time I felt like all I really did was use ElectroBolt + Shotgun all the way through the game.  I was a little frustrated with this and decided to play through again and impose a rule on myself.  I was not allowed to use ElectroBolt (with the exception of areas in which it is required).  I put the game down to easy to allow myself the ability to experiment without the worry of death.  After doing this, the game really opened up as far as combining different plasmids and weapons. 
  
So...anyone else notice the issue of defaulting to a tried and true formula when it comes to combat in this game, did it frustrate you like it did me, and how did you try breaking free from this issue - if you did at all?

#2 Posted by Jadeskye (4323 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago

unlike the original bioshock, switching it up is actually much better. If you play on the hardest setting you'll notice that you can't get by with just the electrobolt. Incinerate, enrage, security bots, pretty much every plasmid is usefu..

#3 Posted by natetodamax (18926 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago

Strange, I absolutely hated the shotgun in Bioshock 2.

#4 Posted by dpedal1 (189 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago
@jadeskye said:
" unlike the original bioshock, switching it up is actually much better. If you play on the hardest setting you'll notice that you can't get by with just the electrobolt. Incinerate, enrage, security bots, pretty much every plasmid is usefu.. "
Now I haven't tried the game on hard, but that is good to know, perhaps that will be a third play through in addition to trying to find all the Audio Logs. 
#5 Posted by Darkstar614 (1091 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago

Seems like everyone went through with just a couple weapons and plasmids. It's not really a bad thing. The idea is you're supposed to get bored of the same plasmid over and over and use a different one at different points in the game.
 
For me I upgraded Bees and Drill to max as fast as I could. But I found myself using some other stuff in between just for some variety.

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