Bioshock 2 came a few days ago, and I'm a few hours into the story. First impression, unsurprisingly, is that it isn't as good as the first game. The story doesn't seem as original this time around and the ideological undertones of a meaningful story seem to have been submerged beneath a pool of guts eviscerated with your brand new drill arm. Hard to concentrate on politics when you're busy drilling through someone's torso. Still, the combat mechanics seem to have been improved and the dual wielding of plasmids and weapons feels perfect, and is necessary as no.2 is really, really hard (I'm playing on normal). The Big Sister and Rumbler in particular being horribly difficult to defeat, in addition to the gathering sequences when you are beset upon by 20+ splicers over a period of less than a minute. It really makes you think about the best way to take down your enemies with conservation of EVE and first-aid kits, and ammo for the better guns being rare and expensive. I have gotten to a really brutally hard point in the game and I'm considering whacking it down to easy for the rest of this playthrough before attempting hard on a second run. Anyway so far it seems to be a really good game, but not as good as the first. Hopefully it won't follow the first game's lead in having the climax two thirds of the way through and finishing on a shit mutant boss. I could see that happening though.
In other news I started a second ME2 playthrough on insanity difficulty. In mainly involved dying and reloading. I gave up and shall not be returning for a while.
I also finished watching series 3 of Mad Men... damn I want a cigarette....
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