Rapture: the ultimate town without pity. The fallen utopia that brutally demonstrated man’s horrific potential without God and law to restrain him.
And it looks like things have gotten even worse in the ten years since the events of BioShock…
BioShock 2 beckons us back under the sea on February 9, 2010....
For $20 you can now get this latest entry from the “Things We Don’t Really Need But Are Lusting For Terribly” file: the BioShock Big Daddy Ultra Deluxe Action Figure! Those big lumbering brutes that once guarded the Little Sisters in Rapture can now be guarding your desktop. Figure comes with full articulation, removable oxygen tank and deadly drill arm. Doesn’t look like the helmet is removable though (which might be a good thing).
Click here for more product and ordering info, would you kindly?...
I had a gut feeling this morning after posting the story about BioShock on Windows for $5 that good news was imminent…
Mark your calendars: February 9th, 2010 will herald the release of BioShock 2: the sequel to 2007’s mind-rattling first-person shooter. It will be an international debut across Xbox 360, Windows and PlayStation 3.
From the official press release from 2K Games…
...Currently in development for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation3 computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows LIVE, BioShock 2 will deliver two unique, yet intertwined experiences that form the perfect blend of explosive first-person shooter combat, compelling storytelling and intense multiplayer action.
Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them
The Windows edition of BioShock – a video game so profound that many consider it to be an entirely new form of high-brow literature – is now on sale for five bucks at Direct2Drive. If you’ve a Windows-based machine and haven’t experienced the majesty and horror of the sub-Atlantic metropolis that is Rapture, here’s your chance to go in deep for a handful of scratch. It’s just one of the games that Direct2Drive is offering at slashed cost to celebrate its fifth anniversary as an online game delivery service. I don’t have to tell you how terrific a deal this is, so go get BioShock… would you kindly?...
BioShock 2 may have been pushed back to next year but that’s not keeping 2K’s PR team from going to some extraordinary lengths of viral marketing for the much-anticipated game. This past week a mysterious note appeared on the game’s teaser site listing numerous beaches around the world and a time to be there… which was yesterday morning.
This was the scene at Australia’s Bondi Beach, where BioShock fans found dozens of wine bottles (from Arcadia itself) washed up on the shore. Within each bottle was one of several posters from Rapture, including this advertisement for Andrew Ryan Industries. Kotaku has photos of more discoveries. And wouldn’t you know it, but the Rapture wine bottles are already fetching a pretty price on eBay.
BioShock 2 is due sometime next year. Hopefully sooner than later....
Not even the sub-Atlantic metropolis of Rapture is safe from the global financial meltdown. In a move that would certainly have Andrew Ryan spinning in his grave had he been given a proper burial, Take-Two Interactive is delaying the release of its much-anticipated BioShock 2, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed 2007 first-person shooter that challenged players’ morality as much as it did their aim.
The cause for pushing back the release? To give BioShock 2 more development time and because the retail environment for the near future is being forecast as bleak. The game is now said to be coming out in “fiscal 2010″… which could mean anything. Take-Two’s stock dropped a dollar and a half following the news.
Bummer. BioShock 2 was the video game that I was most looking forward to. But I guess in the meantime I’ll have to make do with playing the original BioShock...
It’s been known for a few months that in the upcoming BioShock 2 players will be stepping into the boots of the first-ever Big Daddy: the prototype of the ones that you fought in the original BioShock. The cover of the July issue of GamePro reveals the design. And the mag promises to deliver a lot more details when it hits the stands.
(By the way, according to the comments on the above-linked post that’s a camera on your Big Daddy’s helmet. So research is once again part of a BioShock game.)
Meanwhile, Digital Spy has some more info about BioShock 2‘s particular moral choices and the first time I’ve seen a release date given anywhere: October 30th. Just in time for Halloween 🙂...
I’ll admit that right now there’s not a whole lot of information about this to yet pass final judgment. But I sure hope that 2K Games has taken some things into consideration with this move…
BioShock 2, the upcoming sequel to 2007’s haunting and intellect-jarring first-person shooter, will have a multiplayer aspect: something that was absent from the original BioShock. 2K has hired Digital Extremes – a company that has worked on successful titles such as Unreal Tournament and Dark Sector – to concentrate on BioShock 2‘s multiplayer component. However it has become clear that what Digital Extremes will be doing is not so much a mere “complement” to BioShock 2 as it will be an entire beast of a gaming experience in its own right.
In multiplayer mode you’ll have access to “weapons, plasmid and tonic unlocks, so that you’ll ultimately be able to kit ...
BioShock is not a video “game”. It is more like a brand new kind of high brow literature for the modern age, masquerading as a video game. How many “games” have ever tried to touch on the stark horrifying reality of what human nature is capable of doing in the conscious absence of God?
Heck, there aren’t even many movies or TV shows that attempt to do that…
Unfortunately, practically every so-called “Christian video game reviewer” that I’ve read over the past year has completely ignored the extremely powerful moral underpinnings of BioShock, and instead quickly sought to condemn the game for its graphic violence, its harsh language, and of course none of them have seemed able to help but make very wrong insinuations about the Little Sisters and their relationship to the Big Daddies.
Which is why I want to cast y’all’s attention on Jerod Jarvis’ review ...
I’ve seen confusion and misinformation relating to upcoming movies and TV shows, but never like this for an unreleased video game…
Eurogamer is reporting that 2K Games honchos have let it be known that the forthcoming sequel to 2007’s mind-blowing BioShock is still being called BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams. Late last week the story got out (originating from another 2K source) that the “Sea of Dreams” was being dropped from the title.
Eurogamer also notes that it will have plenty more to report on the much-awaited sequel in the weeks to come....