BioShock 2 gets midnight release, new launch trailer

by Justin McElroy on Feb 3rd 2010 9:33AM

If you've been jonesing for your second hit of ADAM, you won't have to wait a moment past 12 a.m. on February 9th; 2K has announced that BioShock 2 will get a midnight launch at Best Buy and GameStop stores. It's great news for us, but bad news for the clerks who have to work until the Witching Hour, just so some dude can fall asleep playing it an hour later, his drool and Cheetoh dust congealing into a loneliness gravy on his Big Daddy PJs.

Hoping to pile some extra coal into the hype train's engine, 2K took up the whole first commercial block of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with a 3-minute-15-second launch trailer. It's a cool clip, but we get the uneasy feeling that the heavy reliance on non-gameplay, first-person action is just a touch misleading. That said, it's just a couple of inches above this sentence, so you can judge for yourself.

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Reader Comments (64)

Wow this game is looking too good. Thank god i just sold my Bioshock copy last week for 21 dollars. I already beat in on survivor anyways. Feb 9th cant come any sooner

That was fantastic.

I hope the game does not have as many escort missions as this (pre-rendered?) trailer would lead us to believe.

Awesome trailer. I like the idea of seeing Rapture with even more decay and destruction than in the first title, but I hope they mix it up somehow maybe by throwing in some sort of flashback level where you go back to a fully functioning Rapture.