BioShock 2: Minerva's Den
Minerva's Den is a single player downloadable content for BioShock 2. This additional campaign is a self-contained narrative experience that puts players in the role of another Alpha Series Big Daddy in a…
BioShock 2: Minerva's Den is an adventure developed by 2K China, released 31 August 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 4.1 hrs to finish.
What BioShock 2: Minerva's Den is
BioShock 2: Minerva's Den is an adventure game developed by 2K China and released in 2010. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 2.5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player assumes the role of Subject Sigma, another Alpha Series Big Daddy, as he travels through Minerva's Den, home to Rapture's Central Computing.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Bioshock series
BioShock 2: Minerva's Den is the tenth of 23 entries we hold in the Bioshock series. The next entry was PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale in 2012. Its critic score of 81 is almost exactly the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is BioShock at 93.
How it was received
BioShock 2: Minerva's Den holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 63 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 6 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4Ghz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0Ghz Processor or better, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA 7800GT 256MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon X1900 256MB graphics card or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 11GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
BioShock 2: Minerva's Den launched on 31 August 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for BioShock 2: Minerva's Den yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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