When playing the latest Resident Evil 5 DLC, Desperate Escape, I am reminded of the fond co-op memories of intense ammo hoarding moments, where sheer anxiety and shaky nerves crept into the gameplay. With the two DLC packs having been released within a matter of weeks, Capcom could not have made the play styles more different. I’ll start this review by saying the two installments of DLC are light years apart in terms of gameplay.

Roughly two years after our first visit, we venture back to Rapture: once a utopia full of the world’s brightest thinkers, scientists, and engineers, now a dystopia ruled by gene-spliced nutters, always underwater. Freed from the flesh and bone trappings of BioShock’s human hero, BioShock 2 puts the player in the helmet of a prototype Big Daddy, Subject Delta. Is this change of perspective enough to recapture the magic of 2kGames 2007 blockbuster? Or will the franchise fizzle without the leadership of the original title’s mastermind, Ken Levine?