BioShock 2 Officially Announced for Late 2009; Involvement of Creator Ken Levine Confirmed

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• Bioshock 2 : The Streets : grabbie
• Bioshock 2: Rapture Drift : timmie
• Bioshock: h2o : waxthirteen
• Bioshock 2: Return of Big Daddy : Sturm08
• Bioshock 2: Bioshock : Snuffles-
• B1sh0ck Zer0 : dignan
• OrganoShock : rustified
• Honey, I Shocked the Bios! : nudel
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  Bioshock 2: CHOICES CHOICES CHOICES OPEN ENDED GAMEPLAY : mourningstar
  • HAH! I can so imagine Ken Levine saying this. : rustified
• Biobreak: Pee or Die! : ezanga
• Bioshock 2: Big Daddy's Wild Ride Bioshock 2: Big Daddy wants his money. Bioshock 2: The Prequel : SkeezPimp
• Bioshock: Buyorsuck =S : stjani
• Bioshock 2: Lost in SanFransisco : johnwissinger
• Bioshock 3: It's so Advanced, We Went Straight From 1 to 3. : rustified
• Bioshock 2: xTreme Atlas Shrugged Edition : phate81
• Bioshock 2: Pipe Dream : Jobos
• BioShocked It's right in front of your noses. : Murdoc.
• In a world... : zehh
• BioShock 2: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rapture. : jackomack
• Bioshock 2: The Surface : AMikaboshi
• Bioshack : deadlycookie
• Balanceshock: Wrench Wars : etherealrhythm
• Bioshock 2: The Pipe Dream Chronicles : snot3353
• Bioshock 2: Revenge of the Seacow : lakren
• Bioshock 2: Steamed. Now on Steam? : Marrbe
• Bioshock 2: The Search for More Money : volitionism

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• Bioshock 2: The Deeper Drills? Set in a sub-oceanic city, located deep below the crust. Magma, volcano... : Marrbe
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  how about placing it in space? i'd love to see system shock 3 : Flinz
  • Space is the place, space is the place. ah what a classic. : Flinz

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• Dig Dug : SkeezPimp
• Pong.... : phate81
• Dr. Mario! Great idea! : deadhorse
• M.U.L.E. : fyrie
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  I didn't even play the pipes game, except for the very first one. Waste of time IMO, since you could usu... : the archvile
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    Why oh why oh why oh why oh why, would you ever play a modern video game on the easiest difficulty set... : m0rb
    • Y'know, some people actually enjoy admiring the environment, snooping around and exploring and checking o... : PlayfulPuppy
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      I played on medium (or normal) and I also only played the very first game. There were so many of those au... : qwplayer
      • I usually play on medium. Often, game developers use cheats for computer enemies in games, which is not a... : Marrbe
• Missile Command : MaxPete82
• Zork: Professor's Office You are standing in an otherwise empty office, with only a safe and a desk w... : xsoulbrothax
• Galaga : fleabug

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  are you fucking kidding me? they JUST released Bioshock which was one of the most original and inspired F... : waxthirteen
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    How can you say Bioshock was original when it was just pretty much a remake of System Shock? : ch4ot1c0n3
    • It's a remake. It's in the same genre. There more to it that just a random FPS, it merely has similar ... : deadlycookie
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    and System Shock 2 was released 5 years later giving time for a new look and improvements, 2 years is jus... : urdgyfrykte
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      What about Thief 2 or Ultima Underworld 2? They both had pretty much the same technology as Thief 1 and U... : nudel
      • Obviously he was making a very erudite comment on their commercial failure. That's the ticket! (Awesome ... : Fayk
    • 4Q 08 would've been glorified expansion. Assuming they can keep the engine and that they've already BEEN ... : xsoulbrothax
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      I miss the days when it took developers 5 years, it made each game special and fresh instead of mindless ... : comiekazie
      • has it ever really taken that long? even around System Shock 2's time (99) you had Irrational being forme... : xsoulbrothax
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  Bioshock was good, but it really doesn't hold up a candle to System Shock 2. I'm afraid those days are lo... : phate81
  • and hopefully they learned that pissing off your customers is a bad idea. I'm not even considering buyin... : the archvile

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  Seriously. Not to mention playing through Sam & Max, Season 1 Episode 5, made me really miss System Sh... : FLESHPOUNDER
  • oh you mean the reality 2.0 episode? I have to play that. : sch44cker
• i support your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. : AMikaboshi

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  Quake 4 was developed by a different studio, and it was terrible. Especially the multiplayer. There are... : mourningstar
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    Quake 4 SP was actually really enjoyable (I never played the MP portion much). : timmie
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      IIRC Quake 4 was Raven of Soldier of Fortune / Jedi Knight fame, wasn't it? : xsoulbrothax
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        yeah, Quake 4 was Raven. I think they did a good job on SP, but their foulup of the scale on the leg... : the archvile
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          Has Raven done ANYTHING since? : chiisu81
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            they're working on Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and the Wolfenstein title based on the Doom 3 engine. IIRC ... : the archvile
            • oops, Ultimate Alliance was already released, I guess. Anyway, yeah, Wolfenstein. : the archvile
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  what about FEAR: Extraction Point? That was basically the exact same formula applied to different bluepr... : the archvile
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    ...and a crappy, WTF, ending. Even Perseus Mandate has a better ending than Extraction Point, and that's ... : gb1469
    • is the rest of Perseus Mandate any good? I had written it off as "FEAR: JAWS 3" since TimeGate developed... : the archvile
• Front page comments : razorblade79
• Different studio and post hype backlash thanks to videogame/web-"journalists" sucking levines cock in the... : Hoax

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• by "industrial", do you mean steampunk like Bioshock, or something different? : the archvile
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  Haha. That turned out to be fan art. 2K actually liked it so much they tracked the kid down. : Nick Breckon
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    And sued him. : rustified
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      no way, i just wanted to congratulate him and feature his artwork on our site. and give him some stuff fo... : dahanese
      • and then sue him : sch44cker
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    yeah, just turned out to be fan art. http://benmauro.blogspot.com/ : bbmar23
    • ha, didn't know that.. Nice work though. : pillzer
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    isn't that like how Dhabih Eng got started at Valve? : the archvile
    • And then they sued him. : zehh

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• i agree, that would be awesome. : AroundTheFur1380
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  That is the ONLY direction this game can conceivably go in. A sequel would be pretty damned silly. : noleh8r
  • The only way I could see there being a sequel is if rapture was left to rot under the sea... and fast-for... : Fayk
• Agreed. A prequel is what I've been hoping for. Of course, I'll be buying this no matter what it is. ;... : David Craddock
• With plenty of rapturians (?) walking around going about their daily lives unsuspecting they are about to... : pillzer
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  I hope it's not a prequel. Part of the appeal of Bioshock is all the unknown information about Rapture yo... : Snuffles-
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    a prequel would probably have a very different feel, depending on how far back it's set. i could see a ga... : pyide
    • I suppose if you can very far back. But what's going to drive the action element? Another citizen freak o... : Snuffles-
• While I agree that a sequel that takes place in Rapture would be somewhere between stupid and impossible,... : BlackCat9
• Yes, this is what I'm hoping for. Either way will be cool with me though, loved the game, and am hopin... : snowwolf

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  I'll reserve judgment until we hear what Levine has to say. : Jenga21
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    Or if he's even involved in the project at all : Legolas5
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      2K Boston is moving on to a new IP, so it doesn't seem like he would have much of a role besides some kin... : Sexpansion Pack
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        Wrong, I was fortunate to work w/ Irrational on S.W.A.T. 4 (boston) & the expansion (irrational australia... : Borzoi
        • We are getting a SWAT5 i hope :( : thewindcriesmary

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• ugh WTB edit button : zeejay
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  I agree 100%. I came in expecting a system more like Deus Ex (ok, I never played System Shock 2 -_-) ... : Dr_Tran
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    Of course it was watered down; the whole city was leaking and you had to save yourself by routing the plu... : FLESHPOUNDER
    • *Badum Ching!* : phate81

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  yup, another game to not buy because they don't trust their customers : dignan
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    They've probably learned their lessons and will go console only like other developers are doing. : BlackCat9
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      good. : dignan
      • yea good for pc players : sch44cker
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      FPS's on the consoles? They always suck. : Jobos
      • ^^ amen : FLESHPOUNDER

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• The next one should be in a city on the clouds. Or the lost city of Atlantis or something. Something fa... : Jobos

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• of course thats just what I'll have to do, wait, but you catch my drift : niceguynick
• Considering there were two different possible endings, it will be interesting... : gb1469

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  true. : VNordstorm
  • Yeah, can't argue with that...or can you? : rustified

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• because it is a rumor : byorn
• If the rumor is true, then I agree! To Hell with Bioshock, a new X-Com should be all sorts of awesome! :D : SilverSnake
• HOLY SHIT! New X-COM!!!!! Awesome. X-COM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bioshock I sure wish the Gollop brothers were... : Flynn

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• Hahaha : Legolas5

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  I have to disagree. I just can't fathom (ZING) an above-ground BioShock setting. : David Craddock
  • a prequel would be cool also. : ant_hillbilly