BioShock: The Collection
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BioShock: The Collection

(ESRB - Standard. Revision 000)

May 29, 2020
  • Shooter
  • Puzzle
  • Role-playing (RPG)
  • Adventure
Publishers:
  • Take-Two Interactive
  • 2K Games
Developers:
  • Irrational Games
Offline play
Yes
Download required
Yes
Comments:

Bioshock the collection has an internet download requirement for all games. Here is how much content is actually on cart.

Bioshock Remastered. Version 1.0.1 on cart.
The first game of the series only includes 3 chapters. Those chapters include: “The Lighthouse,” “Welcome to the Rapture” and “Medical Pavilion”.
Once the player reaches the end of the Medical Pavilion, there is a lever that the player will pull to go to the next chapter. Once the lever is pulled, a warning comes up that says “Full game required. Cannot proceed until game is fully installed.”
This game appears to have 15 chapters total in the main game, and only 3 of those are included.

Bioshock 2 Remastered. Version 1.0.1 on cart. This game only has two chapters on the cartridge. Chapters include: “Adonis Luxury Resort,” and “Atlantic Express Depot.” Same as the previous game, once you the end of the chapter, you will see a lever, once the player pulls the lever, the same warning will populate. “Full game required. Cannot proceed until game is fully installed.”
This game appears to have 9 main chapters, and only two of those are included.

Bioshock Infinite: The Complete Edition. Version 1.0.1 on cart.
This game appears to have 3 chapters available and a tiny section of chapter 4 based on our research. The chapters include: “The Lighthouse,” “Welcome Center,” “Raffle Square,” and “Comstock Center Rooftops.” The fourth chapter “Comstock Center Rooftops” only has the Blue Ribbon Restaurant where the player can obtain upgrades, but once the player tries to pick up a Shield Upgrade from a lady standing toward the back of the restaurant by the kitchen, the game features the warning: “Full game required. Cannot proceed until game is fully installed.”
This game seems to have 40 chapters total, and only 3 of those are included and a part of the fourth.

No additional DLC or content is featured on this cartridge.
All of the DLC, commentary or bonus content is locked. This is basically demos of each of the games, or the intro areas of the games. On the main menu screen for every game, there is a warning at the bottom that states: “Your Nintendo Switch must be connected to the internet to download the rest of the game content.”

In case anyone was curious, the games ran great, with little to no issues regarding frame rates. This applies to both gameplay and cutscenes. But, ultimately, there is nothing really here on cart, so this doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

Played in handheld mode.

Tested by Nintendo Revised on OLED Switch
Carts revisions:
Revision Version on cart Front cart code Download size for update Comments
000 1.0.1, 1.0.1, 1.0.1 LA-H-AXX7A-USA 29.9 GB Download updates to version 1.0.2/7.1 GB for Bioshock 1, 1.0.2/5.4 GB for Bioshock 2, and 1.0.2/17.4 GB for Infinite. None of the three games are fully on cart, all require mandatory patches.