While we wait for 2K and Cloud Chamber’s BioShock 4, a stunning new graphical showcase of 2010’s BioShock 2 has been released.
Created by German YouTuber ‘Digital Dreams’, this new showcase shows 2K’s Bioshock 2 running in 8K resolution at 60FPS on an NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU combined with an AMD Ryzen 9 7950x CPU. For this showcase, the YouTuber used ‘CompleteRT‘ Ray Tracing ReShade shader that adds Ray Traced Diffuse Illumination as well as Ray Traced Reflections. “One of the most advanced Screen space Ray Tracing Shaders, lets you add [Global illumination], [Ambient Occlusion], Matte, and Glossy Reflections to your favorite games using Reshade“, the description of this Ray Tracing shader reads.
As expected on this setup, the game runs on the highest-possible settings, and the results are pretty spectacular, especially for a 14-year-old title – Rapture has never looked this great. Check out the new BioShock 2 showcase below and judge for yourself:
Released in 2010 for PC and the available consoles at that time, the PS3 and Xbox 360, BioShock 2 is considered a worthy sequel to 2007’s BioShock. Some even consider the sequel better than the 2007 original due to the improved gameplay and combat. “BioShock represented a watershed moment in the gaming industry when it illustrated that games, like feature films, can be viewed as art – both in art design and in the rich depth of the narrative,” Christoph Hartmann, then president of 2K said in 2010. “Most importantly, the media are stating what we’ve known all along; that whether or not you’ve played the original, BioShock 2 is a worthy successor to one of the best games of all time that should not be missed.”
As said, 2K and developer Cloud Chamber are currently actively working on BioShock 4 with Cloud Chamber recently looking for numerous new team players in order to ramp up development on the game. Meanwhile, the creator of the original BioShock, Ken Levine, is currently working on Judas with his studio Ghost Story Games.
