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2K dashes BioShock 2's subtitle 'Dreams'

by Randy Nelson on Mar 19th 2009 9:20PM

While fueling our nightmares with images of the Big Sister and her giant needle, 2K Games has done away with a Sea of Dreams -- a.k.a. the original subtitle for BioShock 2. Games blog Primotech noticed the omission whilst browsing Game Informer's cover story on the game and received confirmation of the change by way of a 2K community rep.

We contacted 2K Marin, where we'd recently sat one room away from where the hotly anticipated sequel is being developed, and were told the same by the game's publicist. (Who has no doubt played it -- but we're not jealous, no way. After all, we'll be hopping in a Bathysphere and returning to Rapture ourselves early next month.)

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Tags: 2k-games, 2k-marin, bioshock-2

Reader Comments (32)

Well, "Sea of Dreams" was/is a stupid subtitle. So there.

interesting to see what bioshock multiplayer will involve...
hopefully not just me vs you deathmatch...

i enjoyed the first game much.

any word on the lead platform? or extras coming to a platform?

Probably either 360 or simultanious development. Preferably the latter, as then they'll be closer in quality.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the 360 version got exclusive DLC too. Microsoft seems to like buying that.

killzone 2 was actually the hardest FPS game i have played this gen and was great IMO... no complaints from me..

"Hyams is probably in a corner with tmac and johnny crying their eyeballs out over Killzone 2's massive failure...."

LOL... what? How was KZ2 a massive failure??? WTF? It turned out to be a fantastic game in both single and multiplayer. Best game I've played on any platform since MGS4... and I have every platform.

LOL... so FSC got voted down for saying KZ2 was a massive failure and I got voted down for saying it wasn't? You guys are dumb.

It doesnt seem to make sense with the whole Big Sister thing. Unless she has a dream.

So a game that doesn't need a subtitle actually ISN'T going to have one? Blasphemy.

I've always hated when sequels have both a number and a subtitle. It seems to me like you should have one or the other, not both.

Iunno "Sea of Dreams" is better than like... Call of Duty 5 : Modern Warfare 2

FAIL, that's call of duty 6: moderner warfare deuce

I wonder if that's anything to do with the fact that the abbreviation of "Sea of Dreams" to "SoD" was pointed out to them, considering "sod" is a slightly insulting word to some people *shrug*

Sod off.

Anyone remember Spear of Destiny? Old game on the PC that actually was installed by default into a the folder SoD.

Funny - that's all I remember about it.

That is very good news. Sea of Dreams was such an unbelievably awful subtitle.

Yea, it reminded me of the Titanic, "The ship of dreams."

And the Titanic was an overhyped piece of shit that sank after it was poked by a block of ice.

I think the 2K developers didn't want any kind of association with an overhyped flop.

Poked ice.

Yes, the most successful box office film ever, which grossed 1.8 billion dollars, was a massive flop.

That's good to hear.

I "jizz in my pants" every time I think of the first game.

Can't wait til the next one, no matter wut its called

he just said what we were all thinking but with a popular culture reference. be easy on the kid. he'll learn the way of the joystiqs soon.

here's a few tips.
no car analogies
no popular culture references.
and absolutely no room for proper logic or thought out comments.

This game cant come soon enough Bioshock was the first game i could play past 3 hours and not get frustrated with it.

Would you kindly drop the tacked on Multiplayer and focus on making the campaign GOOD?

tis a wombat!

Great news. Can we make up our own sequel titles now?...like we did when we didn't know what the TFD was for the Army of Two sequel??? Please?

With every news article about Bioshock 2, I'm more concerned it's going to suck.

Except it probably won't.

I used to think like that, but now my game collection is full of first-rate sequels:

God of War 2
Gears of War 2
Call of Duty 4
Grand Theft Auto 4
Metal Gear Solid 4
Diablo 2 (way to break the 3-word-title streak, Diablo)
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Half-life 2

I'm sure there's more I can't remember off of the top of my head.
So now I give game sequels a chance. Movie sequels on the other hand...

Awww. I actually liked that subtitle. Just simply calling it Bioshock 2 makes the title so...generic.

I'm with you, though we seem to be in the minority. But either way, I'm far more concerned about whether or not it's a good game than what they're calling it.

IMO, the "an invisible weapon for an invisible war" concept of Deus Ex: Invisible War (a.k.a. Deus Ex 2) was really cool, but it certainly didn't make the game any better than if they'd just called it DX2 and actually developed a faithful sequel.*

This is not pure hate on Invisible War, I actually enjoyed the game - I just found it to be a big disappointment and not live up to its potential.

No I see what you're saying. It's just I really liked that Sea of Dreams subtitle.

Well, if Bioshock 2 is indeed a prequel, having the name "Bioshock 2" doesn't really make sense, because it comes before Bioshock.

I think they should call it "Bioshock: Sea of Dreams" or "Bioshock 0"...

But regardless of the name, I have no doubt it'll be as good if not better than the amazing first game!

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