BioShock 2 due in fiscal Q4 2009 from 2K Marin

What would make a good #2: A prequel that puts you in the shoes of somebody that was around at the beginning of Rapture, maybe even Ryan. You build the city, and you watch everything to to hell. No matter what you do, it continues to decline, and you get to see first hand what your character in Bioshock 1 saw the aftermath of.

Motherfloodpucking awesome!!! =D

Could be good but, especially given how long Bioshock was in development, it will probably be a half-finished mess. Don't get me wrong, I loved Bioshock, but it seems like they're rushing the development on this one just for the sake of cashing in, not to mention that the lack of Ken Levine's presence could be disastrous. It seems like a hard story to continue, too. I expect they'll either have it as a prequel or have the remaining (non-splicer) people in Rapture trying to rebuild. I just hope every developer takes notice of the success of this, so that all FPS games start to be as good as Bioshock, but I doubt that will happen since more complicated game = more money and longer development. People treat Bioshock like it's going to revolutionize the industry, but all games should have been that good since System Shock 2 and the game industry regressed, rather than moving forward. I'm afraid the same thing will happen now, though at least we've got Deus Ex 3 to look forward to.

If Ken Levine isn't involved=out.

By late 2008, it would have to also be on PS3, as that will be half your market instantly missing.

"After strong sales ... were so strong,..."

forget what you were typing mid-sentence?

This is a great day. New Sims 3 info (with ton of screens) and a Bioshock 2 announcement.

This is why the industry is filled with so many shitty sequels. Look at everyone eating this up! Look at the frigging Joystiq staff eating this up!

This is a quick cash-in on what was a great game. The guy responsible for the greatness of the original isn't even fucking involved anymore!

Bioshock 2: The Search for Shock

Hopefully we'll get some multiplayer this time around.

Yeah man. I mean look at Resident Evil 4 and God of War 2. What a couple of shatty cash in hack jobs.

This will prob be a sequal, Ryan is not actually dead....

I am a little worried since its not by the same people. But if Marin has people from the Bioshock staff on board it shouldn't be to bad. I wish they would have kept the same team though

Didn't anybody notice that 4th Quarter of Fiscal 2009 is actually February 2009 - April 2009?

bleh, count me out.

I dunno: Bioshock 2 would be fun if they revealed new things about that world of Rapture, but at the same time, I felt that Bioshock was already a beautifully wrapped package and that it wouldn't feel right to try to add-on some milking in there.


But that's just my opinion: perhaps there's still a lot more depth involved with that universe which the developers didn't get the opportunity to implement.

Seems a little quick to me. I really wish Irrational was still making this. Bioshock is one of my favorite games of all-time I really hope they treat this with the utmost respect. Not what Activision did to Call of Duty (parts 3 and 5 by Treyarch). Or EA (just name any of their many piss poor sequels). Take Two, please treat Bioshock with the same respect you treat GTA give those guys the time money and freedom to make the game we all want to play.

I just hope they don't fuck this up. :(

I get so confused when we start talking about the different 2K teams.

This is ghey.
Who wants BS2?????
Get us SS3 instead. No more splicing doo doo.
No more religious + ideological mixups.
Give us the many at Tau Cety 5 with Suarez and his whore as new antihero. Back to Goggles and PSI amp and the yellow wrench duo.
Korenchkin reborn as a mega Rumbler. Crash site of the VonBraun on the planet surface as the starting point. Another capital ship that picks up the signal and tries to help and lands many miles away and the hero struggles throughout the planet and then through the infested decks of the rescue capital ship. Shodan personified as the Bekka (Suarez's whore) struggling against you and the many with an occasional truce for a strategic point.
More cyberimplants and some though areas where Shodan denies the cyberimplants at one point of the plot.
Tau Cety 5 colonists are a bunch of mercs that where banned from their home planet that also get in your way either you must rescue some or fight the infected ones of escape some of them who were recruited by Shodan to kill you.
The badly wounded hero barely goes through the rescue capital ship decks to find and empty launch pad and uses it to get into the space while puts himself in cryosleep to heal himself. Add more twist as you wish.

NOW GIVE ME THAT!

SS3 sequel continues:
Make the cyberimplants obsolete if you want, Goggles could use the research lab implant alone to analyze the nano structure/composition/whatever of the Tau Cety 5's flora and fauna and merge that into his body as implants (for the BioShock factor). Use the planet's ores (crystal shard comes to mind) and process them at some locations for money/whatever. FULL USE OF AN INVENTORY SYSTEM. I hope that is clear enough. Occasional service droid here and there spooks you around the corner and or falls from a tree or something. Instead of one secondary character that is on a radio guiding you use many lesser ones whom join forces with you to walk a part of a map together and make them invariably die or reveal their true form as infested by the many or Shodans drone.
Distort timespace continuum for some weird plot twists as you wish.
OK?

BS2 cant be because a bunch of whales were mating in the proximity of Rapture and since the whales sing quite hardcore while in orgasmic resonance the windows shattered and the rooms filled with water and collapsed. Thats it. Caput. No more BS.

Why does a game called Bioshock have to have anything to do with Rapture? Seems like all there was to say about Rapture had been said...the sequel could deal with plasmid technology running amok in the real world, or something.