BioShock: The Collection launched for the Nintendo Switch platform with three excellent games. The team over at Digital Foundry have taken a thorough look at them.
This includes all the games in the BioShock collection and how they run on the system in both docked mode and in handheld mode.
The conclusion is that all three ports are top notch. The originals were on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Switch port was handled by the acclaimed team at Virtuos. The main difference between the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 console ports are the frame rate and visual horsepower with frame rate mostly hovering around 30fps on Switch.
Digital Foundry concludes
The takeaway is rather straightforward then – the BioShock Collection makes for a genuinely great package, with the Switch conversions of every title hitting all of the right notes. And of course, it goes without saying that this particular release does something none of the other consoles can: portable play.
It’s particularly pleasing to see that all three games hold up well, despite the drop in graphics horsepower and bandwidth. After the issues found with the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X versions, we did have our concerns about how well the trilogy would transition across to Switch hardware, but rest assured – this is a solid remaster that’s well worth checking out.
About BioShock: The Collection
Experience the unforgettable worlds and monumental stories of the award-winning BioShock series with BioShock: The Collection.
Journey to the cities of Rapture and Columbia across BioShock Remastered, BioShock 2 Remastered, and BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition, including all single-player add-on content. Fight for your life and outsmart your enemies, be it deep beneath the waves or high above the clouds.
Includes:
- BioShock Remastered: Explore the undersea city of Rapture, a haven for society’s greatest minds that has devolved into a dystopian nightmare wrought by one man’s hubris.
- BioShock 2 Remastered: See Rapture through the eyes of Subject Delta, a fearsome Big Daddy prototype on a life-or-death mission to rescue his missing Little Sister.
- BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition: Indebted to the wrong people, private investigator Booker DeWitt must take on an impossible task: travel to a flying city above the clouds, and rescue a woman named Elizabeth.
