BioShock 2

Is going to feature Big Sisters, according to the upcoming issue of Game Informer. It's one of the only games I'm anticipating this year.

http://image.examiner.com/images/blo...oshock2(1).jpg

Viral site: http://somethinginthesea.com/

I'm really curious to see what the story is for this game, since the original story seemed to tie up all the loose ends. As much as I would love to visit Rapture again, I wonder whether they'd be able to pull it off in a believable, non-cheesy sort of way.

I just hope it's not as disappointing as the last one, and not nearly as cheesy. I had played through System Shock 2 two months before Bioshock came out and I got my expectations up.

I really liked the story for the first three quarters of the game, but the endings are horrible.

I really hope that Bioshock 2 doesn't turn out like the first one. I refuse to buy this game unless I have played it first, the first one got so man rave reviews that it did not deserve. A metascore of 96? It deserves a 70-75 at most IMO.

Did this game deserve a near-perfect score? No, it didn't quite. But I would give this game no lower than an 8.5.

The gameplay was a bit too standard FPS fare, but as I got deeper in the game, I really began to appreciate all the tools the developer gave the gamer to add a surprising amount of depth and strategy to the gameplay.

But what really makes this game deserve such a high score is its presentation. I absolutely love the setting and the art design. The characters are also quite brilliantly realized through the well-acted dialog (even though they don't necessarily move any more realistically than Disneyland automatons). The story is also fascinating to me, and I love getting Rapture's backstory through various diaries you find laying around. And I also love how creepy it is (and even nauseating, at times).

I don't think I'd count this game among the top-10 games of this generation, but I think it stands as one of the top first-person shooters of all time, and IMO makes a very worthy specimen for the "video games as art" argument. The presentation alone shoots this game towards upper-echelon levels, and the fact that it also has rock-solid gameplay almost (but not quite) justifies the rave reviews it received.

Then again, I didn't play System Shock 2, so I'm judging this game on its own merits.

According to some "leaked" GI pictures, you play as a Big Daddy, and there is confirmed multiplayer.

http://allgamesbeta.net/2009/03/13/bioshock-2/

this was a great game
i really liked the area and like the story also
the first fps that i played in on pass out after all the other hooters that i played

after blood and doom this is my 3 third best shooter that i played in years

only a shame that the big daddy s go down fast and that there are only 1 or 2 that have a drill for a hand

The first three you fight in the game are a goddam nightmare (mainly because it's still so early in the game and you have barely started upgrading yourself). I hate those first couple Rosies in the Warf.

ACDC, if you think they go down easy, try going for the "brass balls" achievement. Put the game on the hardest difficulty and turn off the spawning chambers. It doesn't really make the game much harder, but it makes fighting the Daddies a bit more tricky because you have to take them down with just one life.

I'm very excited and nervous about this game personally, as its a franchise that has a great premise, but seems almost too easy to mess up if they go in the wrong direction. Everything is still rumor but what I'm hearing is:
-It takes place 7 years AFTER the first one
-You play as a Big Daddy
-Big Sisters are your main enemies

Honestly those all sound terrible to me but I'll reserve judgment until I get some solid facts. I'd much rather play a sort of prequel that lets you experience just how Rapture went to shit but that might just be me.

Personally, I don't think there's a chance that this game WON'T be a disappointment. I heard its not even being developed by the original team, which unfortunately is all I need to write this one off.

Hmm, seems my Game Informer was on my kitchen table this whole time.

From my sometimes sketchy reading comprehension here's what I got:
-Takes place 10 years after the first BioShock
-You are a Big Daddy, however you still fight Big Daddies in order to either harvest or adopt the little sisters
-There is only 1 Big Sister, and she is apparently the one running Rapture.

So I'm still interested enough to get this day 1, unless the demo completely blows or something like that. As for it not being developed by the original team, as far as i know, 2K passed it along to 2K Marin, the guys that did the PS3 port of it. Don't know how many people from the first one switched teams for it, but from what I wikipedia'd, the original writer and designer are on board for the sequel.