Just did a weekend runthrough of the game. I have to say it's quite possibly the most disappointing game I've ever played in my life. Not worst, it's not THAT bad, but disappointing. I found myself hating every aspect of it after the half-way point.
Just so I don't seem like a cage rattling hypocrite looking for some easy attention, here's why in short form (because who the hell reads threads with intros over 4 paragraphs, honestly?). I'd be more than happy to elaborate on any of these points.
-Convoluted story
-Lack of narrative depth outside of explaining unnecessary convolution
-Dissonant dialog
-Inconsistent characters
-Incompatible controls for the new 'open arena, strafe-and-shoot' style of gameplay
-Backtracking is worse than ever
-Repetitive
-Enemies not as much a weighty challenge as an annoying obstacle
-Punished multiple times for doing thing the game told me to do
-Alternate world concept takes focus from the story
-Alternate world concept also entirely unnecessary from a narrative standpoint
-Worse ending twist than 'WIFE-ARM' from Bionic Commando
And to get this out of the way, I'm not here to bag on people who like it. You're free to your own opinion and I'd like to hear it. Not here to antagonize. Also, I'm not bagging on the series as a whole. LOVED Bioshock 1 and Bioshock 2 was... well, Bioshock 2. So any thoughts?