Play the first-ever Big Daddy in BioShock 2

So the game will move slower than Exit?

Cool!!!

Hmm so you play as the one kidnapping all the girls around the world?

So... We can assume it's a precuel...?

Wait, what? I thought it was supposed to be 7 years after the first one?

BioShock is a game with an excellent presentation, art design, and exploration element, but is crippled by a lack of gameplay depth. Additionally, the story is concluded in the first game. It's done. Finished. Nothing more to say. Now, though, financial incentive has brought the title back from the dead and the developers are clearly straining to make it work by introducing some brand-new, innovative elements.

Playing as a Big Daddy in the original game sucked. It was probably the most boring part of it and removed whatever minor difficulty remained in it (even on hard the game is a complete walk in the park). Now, what the hell? Play as a Big Daddy, toting a Little Sister around? The escort mission in the first game is bad enough, so why does 2K have to design the sequel seemingly around this element? Co-op gameplay? BioShock is effective because of its strong story and immersive atmosphere - multiplayer of any sort utterly destroys that element of the game, because get two friends and two microphones together, and there's bound to be stupidity. Last... Big Sisters? Seriously. Okay, I know that they're desperately trying to add something new, but that's the best they could come up with? I can envision the discussion around the meeting table when they came up with this one... "well, the first game had Big Daddies and Little Sisters... what if we like, invert it? Now we have Little Sisters! oh man, is that clever or what?" Yeah, just weak.

I'm still looking forward to the game, but this early news is really starting to stink. It sounds like BioShock 2 has very little to do with BioShock and what makes it good in the first place, the natural result of a story and universe with nowhere to go. It's like Jaws 3 - man, just stop. It's over.

Oh wait you get to kidnap little girls? People are gonna love this.

"Players take control of the very first Big Daddy, and will be able to use plasmids while still donning its iconic drill. Your quest will have you confronting other Big Daddies and a familiar moral dilemma: do you harvest the Little Sisters or do you adopt them?"

Here's a little challenge - rather than ranting about it, I'll leave it up to you guys. Knowing what a canon and story whore I am, point out three things about that statement that prove we'll be dealing with a Theme Park version of Raputure this year.

I was gonna post this in but couldnt be bothered


Big daddy vs Little sister = domestic violence rofl

Big daddy kidnaps little sister = just plain wrong man lol

So there is finally a game that allows you to be a pedophile? No thanks

"...while still donning its iconic drill."

SOLD!!

Just saying: APRIL ISSUE. Everyone remember the DOAX nudity cheat? Yeah? We'll thats about what I'm expecting here.

Shark = jumped imo. Very disappointed by this news. I'm still holding out on the possibility that this is the most elaborate April Fools joke from a gaming related magazine. I just can't get excited by the concepts of the gameplay or basic plot. I'm completely willing to eat my words when this comes out, if it turns out to be awesome, but right now I'm bummed about these details.

- A BioShock fanboy.