i have it already. my local games store seems to get all the cool games one day earlier. it was the same with borderlands. i´m not doing any multiplayer until tomorrow though, i heard some guys in france got banned for playing odst online too early.
an hour in and i must say it´s pretty cool. there´s a lot more combat, more enemies than in the first one. the new hack gun is pretty cool. dual wielding plasmid and weapons makes for a faster combat, although it gets hectic sometimes. so far i´m not sure about the plot, but i won´t post any spoilers anyway. it´s certainly more action focused so far but well executed and rapture is as haunting as ever. the only letdown is that some of it feels fairly recycled. right now i´m looking at the pause screen for example and it looks almost exactly like the last. i know it would be dumb if they didn´t stay true for the artstyle, but a lot looks exactly like in the first. the games intro level is also almost the same like in the first in terms of progress(yeah, get electrobolt, shoot the broken doorknob, person x calls you on inter-whatever-com, says do that, person y appears on screens all over the place, says no don´t, you should rather die, and so on...).
so by now i´m neither disappointed, nor overwhelmed by it. it´s too soon to make a final resumé, but it seems the game improved a lot on the combat side because that´s something that´s definetly more fun than in the first. also, drilling splicers into pieces is awesome. i wonder how much money 2k spent so they could bribe the usk in germany in agreeing to release the game uncut. not that i have a problem with that. it just makes no sense if you look how the fucked up left 4 dead over here with their censorship.
