14 DAY TRIAL // The highly-acclaimed survival horror first-person shooter video game, BioShock 2, has arrived on the Mac. Promising a first-person shooter experience unlike any other, BioShock 2 sells for $29.99 (€24.99) on the Mac App Store.
Set within the ruined undersea city of Rapture, BioShock 2 puts players in the boots of a Big Daddy who must protect his beloved Little Sister at any cost “from a world of insanely selfish adults.”
The game, which has been deemed as emotionally conflicting on a few occasions, says “you must shield her again from those who demand that everything must be shared.”
The plot says that, “Ten years after the events of BioShock, Rapture has fallen under the control of a collectivist cult who plan to transform Eleanor into a genetically-engineered messiah, who will put an end to individuality forever.”
“To save her, you must deploy a unique combination of shooting, role-play and stealth as you rampage through Rapture’s leaking halls to confront her captors,” says Feral Interactive, the game’s publisher on the Mac.
New enemies include the Brute Splicers and the vengeful Big Sisters, while players can fire weapons with their right hand (mouse) and deploy gene-altering plasmids with the left hand (keyboard).
As usual, players have moral choices to make: “Choose whether to adopt Little Sisters and protect them from splicers, or harvest them for the genetic material they carry.”
“Whether you choose to forgive those who threaten Eleanor or wreak vengeance upon them, remember, she is always watching and will follow your example,” reads the story.
Mac gamers and fans of the undersea shooter will require a 2.0 GHz Intel processor, about 4 gigabytes of RAM, a 256MB graphics card and roughly 10 gigs of free storage space.
Some graphics cards are not supported, including the ATI X1xxx series, ATI HD2xxx series, NVIDIA 9400, NVIDIA 7xxx series and the Intel GMA series.