Bioshock 2 Tips and Tricks (part 3)

Bioshock 2 Achievements Guide

Here is a short guide to some rather difficult achievements. The first achievement I am going to go over is the most difficult one that I am going to cover. This achievement, called “Master Protector” is achieved by completing an adam gathering with no damage to you and no one getting to your little sister. While this does not sound like a terribly difficult feat to accomplish, it is a lot harder than you are led to believe. I suggest trying on every gathering opportunity you have, but ultimately there is one location where you are nearly guaranteed to succeed in unlocking this achievement.

As a side note when attempting to gather adam, here are my suggestions for self protection which, no matter the situation will always help you. First remember to always set up traps in levels farther out from you than you would immediately assume. Also be weary of balconies and any higher area a splicer could shoot or throw grenades from. Secondly always use the security systems to your advantage and hack all that you can as hacked systems stay hacked for the course of the level.

The best place to attempt the “Master Protector” achievement is in the Imago Fine Arts area of Dionysus Park. There is a frozen gallery which houses the most security systems in a single area in the game, with four security cameras and three turrets. Hack all of them, as well as melt all the ice you can to collect everything in that room (there is also a nice cache with a safe in the back of this gallery). Once the room is secure set up traps and turrets as far from you as you can and be sure to cover the one door into the gallery. Also you should set up a mini turret inside the cache room as there will be splicers that spawn in that room who can ruin an attempt at the worst time. Now once you have prepped the room, just sit yourself back in the corner and be sure to set up a couple extra traps around your little sister just in case and if you have been protecting the little sisters, you should have two gifts from them by this point which will allow you to equip the proud parent and demanding father gene tonics which net more plasmid and your little sister acquires the plasmid significantly faster. From here just try and keep your head down and remember even if it doesn’t register on your health bar, if your character sounds like he got hit, he did and you lost out on unlocking this achievement.

A few more achievements which really aren’t too difficult, just not obvious are, “9-Irony” which achieved by throwing a 9 iron which you find at the first Andrew Ryan exhibit at the Ryan Amusements level, while the animatronic Ryan is talking just throw a 9 iron from off to the left side of the exhibit at him with telekinesis. Next, “Big Brass Balls,” just finish the game without using a vita chamber, for this I suggest easy, saving a lot, and going into the start menu and turning off vita chambers. Next, “Look at You Hacker,” just hack the security systems and let them do the work for you, in order to achieve this one you have to let the hacked bots kill 50 enemies without any help from you. Then to unlock most of the rest, hack everything you can, and hack all the security systems from a distance, spend money as often as possible, go out of your way to find every easter egg and lastly try not to die in any battles and take on as many Big Daddies in a row as you can without dying. Beyond that is multiplayer achievements and you have to figure those out on your own.