BioShock: The Collection bundles all three games and their single-player add-ons: the objectivist ruin of Rapture in the first two, and the sky-city of Columbia in Infinite. Each is a first-person shooter that hands the player plasmids and elemental powers alongside conventional weapons, but the reason the series endures is the writing, worlds that use their genre to argue about free will, ideology and choice rather than just decorate a corridor. Widely regarded as a landmark of the form, the trilogy is remembered more for its atmosphere and twists than for its gunplay, which is competent rather than exceptional. The remasters bring higher resolutions and framerates, though they are faithful ports rather than ground-up remakes. For players who want shooters that think, this is one of the strongest single purchases on the list; those chasing tight mechanical action alone will find the combat the least of its virtues.
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