Gamespot floods us with Bioshock 2 details, spoilers

by Griffin McElroy on Apr 18th 2009 4:30PM

Before reading on, we beg of you, our dearest readers, to heed this solemn warning. Do you remember that magical feeling that filled you the first time you crossed the aquatic threshold into Bioshock's labyrinthian metropolis, Rapture? That warm, gooey feeling of excitement and wonder? If you read Gamespot's recent all-inclusive, spoiler-filled preview of 2K Marin's highly anticipated follow-up, you'll probably be robbed of that feeling the first time you boot up Bioshock 2. Trust us. We made the sacrifice to pass this news onto you, and we're pretty sure we won't be able to get to sleep tonight.

If you absolutely must know what tantalizing details Gamespot dug up, you can check out their video featurette, which we've posted after the jump. Just don't come crying to us when you learn that the original Bioshock was actually just a dream sequence. (Oops! Sorry!)

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Tags: 2k-marin, bioshock, bioshock-2, gamespot, Microsoft, preview, spoilers, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (92)

dream....wtf

A joke

Hope this makes it to spadix... A joke.

The hell is wrong with the replies??

I think that was Joystiq pulling a funny.

Earlier comment meant for spadix.. Joystiq comment system is borked.

Must. Resist. Watching. Video.

Oh fuck it. -watches- Damn you curiousity!

I didn't feel it was too spoilerish. They're mostly talking about new elements to the game, not the story.

Incoming spoiler...

I wished they left out the part about the big sisters... That was the only spoiler for me.

To get downvoted?

Idiot

I have a feeling we'll see jack again.

While I don't want to spoil what happened in the original game, you'd think he'd need to show up for the canon ending (good ending) in the first game to still work. If you've beat the game you'd know what I'm talking about (ie. the hands).

I don't know if you were kidding Justin, but if you weren't that's kind of an ass-hole thing to do by putting the spoiler in the text , especially text that is before the jump, and after saying "If you absolutely must know what tantalizing details Gamespot dug up, you can check out their video featurette, which we've posted after the jump".

Of course he was joking. Although it did fool me for a split-second, the mark of a well-crafted lie.

also that's Griffin, not Justin

It's not often you see someone taking the trouble to hyphenate the "ass-hole."

Yeah i'm not reading Joystiq anymore...

Haha, screw you, Joystiq, the first game was a dream! You ruined it! :D

You need to give spoiler warnings for spoiling the spoiler video!

I would love to know what percentage of the people who watch that video list their birthdays as January 1st.

As for the game itself, the feel of combat really needs to be improved.

My birthday was 1st March 1903

My birthday changes with each video, usually depending on where the mousewheel lands.

One time it was June 6, 1986, the other time it was March 20, 1972. And so on...

do want.

The dream thing was a joke, guys.

Why do they keep saying you play as the 1st Big Daddy, when this is a sequel?

It's a sequel.. But it's also a prequel!

This BD is the first prototype BD. He was "in" the first game, just not seen. Basically we only saw a fraction of Rapture, and this BD was somewhere else. Either lying dormant or whatever.

Maybe its a rebootquel?

"So the story of Bioshock 2 takes place several years after the events of the first game"

That's what the guy says right at the beginning. So yeh... how the hell is he the first Big Daddy.

I THINK HE WAS THE FIRST ONE BUT WAS SLEEPING SOMEWERE DURING THE FIRST ONE!! AND THEN WOKE UP

i can't believe they're putting bullet time in this game

I haven't watched the video because I can't be bothered to wait for it to buffer past 1:43, but I wish that were true.

What this game needs is a very good melee combat system, a la Condemned 1 & 2.

Great video, but horribly presented by you guys. Don't hype up the spoiler aspect to deter people who don't want to be spoiled and then put in a "joke" that will make those same people watch it just to see if you were joking or not.

For those checking out the comments before the video, no Bioshock 1 was not just a dream, and the video doesn't even contain that many spoilers if you've been keeping up with the already released news about Bioshock 2.

haha it seems they were uncomfortable on video. the game looks pretty good, the whole big sister element sounds interesting.

First game was a dream? Why the fuck did you have to put that at the end of your article and not claim spoiler yourself?

I had just ordered the original game (i was deployed to iraq during it's release) and i was going to get ready for part 2. you guys are a bunch of dicks. i would expect something like that from a fan site - not a professional website.

I hope your mother gets donkey punched during a gang bang.

April Fools!

Woah there Quick Draw McGraw calm down. It's called a joke.

the whole spoiler alert thing goes away after time...
its been 2 years since bioshock was released, get over it... lol..

continues to ready entire comment while typing reply..........
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... lol

and thanks for supporting our country, many people care about what you did and/or are doing.

April Fools Day was some time ago.

@Saintgutfree

Your smart!

April fools!

Is anyone else just slightly annoyed by the fact that the 2K Marin people speak about the original Bioshock as if they were the ones who'd developed it? As far as I know it was only 2K Boston/Australia that developed the original game with Marin just taking care of porting it to the PS3.

same goes with infinity ward and treyarch ?
id blame the publisher for pumping out too many games and not allowing the same developers to work on them.
but then we would have less games. good or bad?

when you take control of something, you tend to start explaining that its yours and that you own it... goes with the territory i guess.

The studio that founded 2K Marin has members that made the original Bioshock. Do your homework next time.

How about PC version???

There'll be a PC version. PC is considered this gen during every gen, due to upgraded engines, graphics, etc.

I wonder who they'll have doing the PC version. 2K Australia was in charge of Bioshock on PC but they're technically part of 2K Boston from their Irrational days.

If by "warm gooey excitement" you mean thinking "wow this game is like an annoying version of System Shock 2" then yeah, I guess I remember that. I hope they do something to make the combat fun and restore suspense to the game--two things that were sorely missing in BS1 thanks to annoying big daddy fights and too-convenient-to-abuse restore-chambers.

That wasn't as spoilerific as I assumed it would be. I think it's pretty safe to watch, and certainly worth watching.

Does the "99" in your name mean that's the year you were born? Because that would explain a LOT.

"Gamestop's recent all-inclusive"

Gamestop does previews now?

Funny to see that even Joystiq writers fall to the evil Gamestop/Gamespot confusion.

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