Burial At Sea is a great epilogue for Bioshock Infinite
With this review I'm reviewing both Episode 1 and 2 at the same time. Burial At Sea managed to do a lot more than what my expectations were when first hearing about it. Anyway first up this piece of dlc is set in Rapture again with Booker as a private investigator that is searching for a child he lost while Elizabeth plays the dame who has the info he needs. This leads to a collusion you'll most likely expect if you've played BI before but where it really gets interesting is the beginning of the 2nd episode. For this part you only play as Elizabeth as she goes through the rapidly detonating city while also learning about her perspective on everything that happened in this dlc and beyond.
The first act of this DLC is worth seeing because it lets the player see what Rapture is like before it goes insane. While the second act was actually fun because it mixed up the gameplay for more of a stealth focus. Stealth in a Bioshock game hasn't been that good till now. Which is mostly thanks to the fact they give the player a invisibility plasmid. Sure it might make it a bit easy but at the same time I felt like I could take on anything. The narrative while sneaking around was also compelling me to get to the next reveal.
This may be a 2 year old game at this point but the slightly exaggerated style holds up well and the underwater world of Rapture can be beautiful to look at. Other areas you might not expect to see also make a appearance. Most of the gameplay mechanics are similar to what they did in Bioshock Infinte and they even added in hooks to jump on. It may not be anything new but they throw in a new plasmid or weapon to make each area a little unique.
On the opposite side of the scale they don't always keep a interesting narrative going. In the first act they just redo the events of BI again. Which may be in a new area but it is also leading to a obvious ending. Combat early on can feel a little unfair for awhile since they didn't like to give out ammo till later on. Overall what these pieces of DLC managed to do was craft a unexpected epilogue to the events of the main game. Anyone that might have been unsatisfied by the ending of BI might be interested in seeing what they did in this one. Worth playing if you enjoyed any of the Bioshock games although this will spoil Infinite if you haven't played it yet.