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uh, we're gonna be playing as bid daddies for most of the time? it looks really good either way.

Looks kind of familiar. Is this still running on Unread Engine 2.5? I see you still move as if you are a floating camera with arms.

At this point, I'm still concerned about story over anything else. I don't think you can really top the narrative of the previous game, which was expertly tied to the medium. I still believe this is just a cash in sequel above anything else, and though it will replicate the gameplay of the original, it will fail to deliver in the ways that separated BioShock from other FPS games. 

I hate the playing as a Big Daddy nonsense. The daddies in the first game really sold the atmosphere of an underwater utopia-gone-awry, every time you stumbled across them. Their best function is as a visual and interactive touchstone for the world of Rapture. Secondarily, they're formidable opponents, albeit porrly designed as simple damage sponges.

But I just don't see any value in putting the player in their shoes. When they went that route in the first game, it didn't work for me at all. And why would the Rapture scientist make the first Big Daddy a plasmid fiend? Isn't that a conflict of interest with him guarding Little Sisters?

Ahhh......what the fuck amn...THERE SHOULD BE NO BIOSHOCK 2!!!!!!!!!!!!

It looks like Bioshock 1, but you are a big daddy. We shall see if this manages to be good or not.

That is definently Bioshock.

one of my favourite xbox 360's games :p looking forward to no.2

The flood scene was incredible but I'm not sure I want to go back to the fucked up Rapture. Before the game was shown I was hoping they'd do something like a prequel before Rapture's downfall, with the city fully functioning, the people (well, some at least) happy and carefree, and just having a freeform sandbox gameplay similar to the original Deus Ex. Maybe even being able to cause a time paradox so that the sequel never happens. I don't want another corridor shooter I guess.

I loved the first, but I'm having doubts on this one.

It's a strange day when I'm one of the few with a genuine interest in something, and very little negativity to share beyond reasonable skepticism.

I agree with the guys saying this looks remarkably similar to the first Bioshock. As much as I loved that game I hope 2K try to actually make some changes, rather than just throw out more of the same.

THIS DRILL WILL BE THE DRILL THAT PIERCES THE HEAVENS!!!

If you naysayers go back and actually play Bioshock, you'll find in terms of character design and gameplay, it plays very differently to the original Bioshock. New weapons, new Big Daddy suit and new underwater sections, I didn't see that in the original. Since System Shock 2 was as good, if not better than System Shock 1, I have a feeling that the developers are not gonna let this one suck, especially seeing as this is Ken Levine's baby.

I don't think I'll be dissapointed...

At some of the criticism of the game.  I was skeptical at first, but I read the feature in Gameinformer and am kind of excited about the game now.  Apparently you play the first big daddy ever made, who was a prototype.  That's why you have the ability to use plasmids.  Also, the story is promised to be on par with the first game. 

I don't know. I think Bioshock was a great game and all, but I hated Rapture. This game seems like you're more well equipped with your Big Daddy stuff and everything, but it still looks like Rapture is as tedious a place to traverse as ever.

Looks good, but I'm not excited.  Just more of the same Bioshock gameplay.  When I beat Bioshock I didn't go back and do it again because it wasn't that great, only thing I liked was the setting and story.

I have to say, it looks like they're definitely getting the mood down pat. That's good to know... I hope this game has some deeper underlying themes behind it, something to make it as important of a piece as Bioshock the first, and not just 'funtime adventures in aqua-land.'  Granted I won't be object to a game that's just plain fun, so let's just hope they improve on the mechanics of the first one, rip out that stupid, god-awful hacking mechanic entirely, and make a really great game.

That line at the end is f'n creepy. Good. More of that stuff, please.

Also, no no no to underwater bossfights. Water levels are always some of the worst levels in any game, so unless they've "figured it out," let's just leave the underwater to exploring and/or trying not to be eaten by sharks. Dharma initiative labeled sharks.

looks like bioshock with a drill. :|

Nice, but the video skipped and got extremely choppy all throughout.

Looks like I'd be better off firing up Bioshock for another playthrough on it's release, this hasn't interested me in the slightest. This has "Quick-cash-in-sequel" written all over it in annoying Caps...

looks great ... i dont care i wana go in was one of my fav games of that year if not of all time..

It looks like Bioshock so that's good but the little sister seams just as stupid as i expected
I'm sure it will be fine but its defiantly a marking teams idea of a second Bioshock
i would of loved to see what  ken levin would of done.

Well wow, it looks like the first Bioshock, should be interesting to see if they can pull off a plot that actually works in any meaningful way.

The underwater stuff looks cool, the drill looks kind of weiner though.

Why is nobody talking about the Undying-style two-fisted action? It's a really big deal that you can have a weapon and a Plasmid equipped at the same time.

I love how people are pulling the whole "it looks like Bioshock 1" negativity out!  lol

So many feelings. Don't. Know. How to explain.

I hope this game is awesome.

This one is a tough one for me. On the one hand, I loved the original Bioshock and really would enjoy a sequel. On the other hand, I don't want a crappy sequel and feel they should just leave well enough alone. It might be more of the same, which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it.  

I wanted it to be less of a shooter and more of a survival-RPG like System Shock 2.

Well. it looks like bioshock, but a teeny bit better, I guess thats a good thing

Uhmmm....didn't...Rapture get destroyed at the end of Bioshock 1?

The thing that stuck out to me was the lack of reaction from being nailed with that huge drill...seems like there'd be more happening on the receiving end.

Who are you in this game? I got the kid-friendly ending, and you leave Rapture and grow old and die with the lil sisters in what I perceived as a creepy polygamous relationship with all of em. (Was anyone else surprised the protag was a Mormon?) Didn't Rapture explode or something? Maybe this is like Rapture Sorna/Site B, where they grew all the Big Daddies an Lil Sisters before their frog DNA caused them to transgenderate...
Spoilers.

Looks actually a lot more focused on combat and less on the fear and turbulent atmosphere.
I don't know if that means I'll like it more or less, but that's my two cents.

Thoroughly unimpressed.

By the way, way to fucking go with everyone here spoiling the ending of the first BioShock. Don't ruin it for people, jeez.

I'm not impressed, but then again I wasn't a fan of the original

AHHHH I JIZZED MY PANTS. I CANT WAIT!

Very Nice.

i dunno but im still kinda suspicious about how it will turn out. looks nice though

That looks pretty promising. I'd like to see some more free-roaming type gameplay, though.

Looks good but the whole little sister and big daddy thing is the direction I was hoping they wouldn't go in. Finally though they add the water into the underwater city game which I was hoping to see in the first game after the opening level but it never came.

Oh my God.....Wow. Wow wow.

What worries me is that Bioshock was based on a book, right?

How are we supposed to have a connection with the protagonist when he's a big daddy? Also, how can you hold a gun when you have a drill for an arm?

"Got a bad feeling it's gonna suck."

Wait a tic, was that footage from the original Bioshock? I hope so!