2K Games has released the BioShock: The Collection on the PC. Priced at 59,99€, this package features BioShock Remastered, BioShock 2 Remastered, BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den Remastered, BioShock Infinite, BioShock Infinite – Season Pass and Bioshock Infinite: Columbia’s Finest.
As we’ve already said, the first two games suffer from some ridiculous issues. Thankfully, PC gamers can fix them by editing the game’s .INI files, so we strongly suggest reading our article before playing them.
The good news here is that this package features offers both the original and the remastered versions of the first two BioShock games. This means that you can enjoy these two games in their original versions (in case you find the Remasters lacking some of the atmosphere found in the original versions).
Not only that, but 2K Games is offering for free these remasters to everyone already owning BioShock or BioShock 2. So yeah, if you believe that these remasters are not worth your effort, you can still play the original games. And that’s truly an awesome option.
The remastered versions of the first two BioShock games come with laughable PC graphics settings. And when I say laughable, I mean laughable. At least these two titles run great on the PC. We were able to play both of them in 4K with 100fps on our NVIDIA GTX980Ti.
2K Games has made some slight changes to the first two games, though the graphical improvements are not that great. Yes, we’ve got some better textures but we also lost the advanced DX10 water effects that were used in the original version of the first BioShock game.
And to be honest, this Collection was mainly released for those not owning these titles. If you’ve never played BioShock, this Collection is for you. If you already own these games, there is nothing for you here. And contrary to other releases featuring remastered versions of their games, 2K Games has made available these remasters to all PC gamers owning the original games.
Even if you don’t like some artistic changes that were made to the remastered versions of BioShock and BioShock 2, this is a really cool move, so kudos to 2K Games.
Now, would you kindly enjoy the following 4K screenshots? Oh, and those interested can download the uncompressed 4K images from here!
BioShock Remastered
BioShock 2 Remastered
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From what i’ve seen. It’s useless unless you haven’t played it. For newcomers, this is a must!
But I like foliage. I judge the graphical capabilities by looking at the pretty foliage. So its an insane leap.
And aim of remasters should be to *preserve* the experience not *replace* it. In that sense I think this one does the job better than most others.
Yea so they should just drop the “remastered” because it is not better in all it’s aspects. They should use another word. Skyrim’s remaster can be called a “remaster” since it’s keeping it’s core aspects and upgrading visuals for ps4 etc.
I think the graphical leap is way too small to make me want to play those games again. But yeah, it’s a great thing for newcomers.
I wish they would make remakes using Unreal Engine 4 and crisp textures, like once some fan showed.
“What? Spend money? On a wanna-be “remaster”?
Why? They’ll buy it anyway, won’t they? Well, the con$ales crowd will, at least…..”
They’re just trying to make money with low effort.
Yeah, in the case of PC it seems fine, they’re giving you the remasters for free so there’s not much to demand. But it looks like a cash grab on consoles.
Never got a chance to play Minerva’s Den, so I’ll probably go through it on this new version. Shame I still have to use so many fixes, but at least it [hopefully] won’t crash all the time (something practically all DX10 games suffer from) and the physics aren’t stuck at 30 fps.
Wonder if it is possible mod the textures to the old version.
Anyone knows an *.ini tweak to remove the overblown Bloom ?
couldnt these games do 4k before alot games has scalable resolutions for years before it was popular
Ever of PNG ? it’s this new lossless image compression format !
It totally works !
The graphics are far better than the original (it is a huge improvement) but in order to enjoy the remastered graphics you have to edit the .ini file and choose “UltraHigh” because the default settings are “Normal” and “Medium”