10 Video Game Sequels That Didn’t Let Fans Down

2. BioShock Infinite

Who can forget Rapture, the dystopian underwater city full of crazed looneys driven on by their thirst for ADAM, a genetic material that grants superhuman abilities? BioShock was a first-person shooter with a difference, it wasn't just: "Go this way and kill everything." It was more like "Go this way and choose how to kill everything." Sure, it was fun to go about shocking enemies with a plasmid and then whacking them with a wrench, but the game also made you feel like you were inside the creepy Rapture, through its survival horror elements and rich environment. It dragged you in with its great storyline and periodically threw up a moral choice, such as killing or saving the 'Little Sister' NPCs. BioShock 2 arrived three years later as a direct sequel, filling in much more of the story behind the first and making unspectacular but solid improvements on the original game's elements. BioShock Infinite however, was more of a risk, its new setting and storyline being unrelated to BioShock 1 and 2 (at least in theory, spoiler-lovers). Thankfully, Irrational Games nailed it, giving fans of the series an experience that was similar yet separate from the originals. The flying city of Columbia created a living environment that was fresher and more open than Rapture, holding sinister terrors under the surface whilst retaining a steampunk style. The idea of the dystopian dictatorship was revisited but reimagined with a little less insanity and moral choices were built upon, with player decisions affecting storylines (in theory) alongside having more variety. In short, BioShock Infinite gave fans a game that introduced a huge new setting and storyline, but played and felt like the same ominous world of BioShock 1 and 2.