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Two things that caught my attention.
1. The Big Sisiter is fast as hell.
2. The spilicers were proving to be not much of anything but a nuisance. There will have to be some more powerful enemies in the game....

I love the atmosphere in Rapture, the art design looks like it holds up. I'm interested in seeing how the game turns out, I will play it either way - although I can't say I'm happy about having to play underwater.

By the look of that it still retains the awesome atmosphere from Bioshock 1.

Can't wait to play it.

Skeptical, but we shall see.

The part i personally didnt like about the first Bioshock was the part when you became the Big Daddy (spoiler?) and had to protect the little sisters you found.  Maybe because i found it too hard lol. So the second looks to probably have more of that so im a bit scured but cant wait for it to come out!

I really don't want to be a big daddy...

It looks like Bioshock! And that is one of the biggest compliments I can give it. Seriously, this game is going to be great.

I have a feeling this will rely more on being a brute than being sneaky and setting up traps like in the first game. I mean of course there will still be that element, but if you're a big daddy, I would imagine you would just roll through everything launched at you.

I don't want to

Looks fantastic!

See guys? ANIMATION makes a game have good graphics, not shaders.

Man thats awesome. It looks like your a frigen big daddy, which would explain the end of the first game. Man IM FUCKING PUMPED

I'm not looking at any BioShock 2 stuff until I play the first game. I guess I don't have much of an excuse now that it's cheap.

I may be easy to please, but Bioshock 2 could be Bioshock Redux and I'd still give my first born for it.  I hope they introduce more settings within Rapture; I love the feel of the city, and I can't wait to see more of it.  I would like to see a little more coherence between the settings, though.  I felt like each time I left a level I was shutting it off for good, and I would like to see it feel more like a complete city rather than separate, detached little pieces.  And a game with only a drill or only a rivet gun, while probably more realistic, would be far less fun, in my opinion.  Plus, realism isn't exactly a main point of the Bioshock series.  But ditto on the drill, it better do some real damage.

Cannot wait for this. I loved the story of the first, i have no idea what this one is going to be about.

I'm becoming more and more confused about the way this game is being received by the community. My roommate, an avid gamer, a reviewer, a Bioshock fan, and a long time System Shock 2 fan, has his doubts, like most of you. He says Bioshock 2 is going to be awful. Personally, I think it looks fine. This is how I see it though:

1. The game ends up identical to Bioshock 1, except you're a Big Daddy. Slight mechanic change, but not really. New story, probably not as good, but who knows? End result: Bioshock 1.5. Is that bad? Not sure. Would you rather have more Bioshock or are you content with the gameplay in Bioshock 1? My roommate is content. I probably am too. If I wanted more Bioshock I would play the first, instead of picking up this new game.

However...

2. It's totally different, the trailers are misleading ('cause they're just short gameplay videos with the same HUD, obviously the same game, right?) Maybe visually it's the same, as far as trailers go. I'm sure when reviewers dig deeper they will find there are a large number of new enemies, and new, cooler plasmids. They'll find the story is new and refreshing, etc, etc.

What did anyone expect from this game, anyway? 'Bioshock 2: The Different Game that isn't like Bioshock 1 at all' ?

Look at other titles. Halo 1-3, all similar. Halo 2 added online multiplayer, Halo 3 expanded on it and added a few thing here and there. Oh, it updated the graphics thanks to a jump in generations. I bet if you go back and look at trailers from Halo 2 to Halo 3 (and disregard graphics of course, as they aren't a debatable topic for Bioshock 1 to 2) you'll see that there doesn't seem to be a large change in gameplay. A few more guns and few more plasmids; enjoy your new game. You'll buy it if you're a fan, you wont if you're not.

But how is that different from any other game?

Wait for reviews before you make your own judgment. Either the game will be more than you expected, or it will be more of the same game. Either way, you can't lose with more Bioshock. If you're looking for a new and exciting experience that is different from Bioshock but still within the Bioshock universe, keep wishing. You might just get your wish. These trailers aren't going to tell you whether or not your birthday cake candles were lairs.

I bought Bioshock because of the critical praise and enjoyed it the first time I played through.  But on a second play through I couldn't find myself liking it at all.  I may just rent this one.

This trailer makes me worry.

Not that impressed, really. The game looks a lot like Bioshock 1, not only in the graphics, but the mecanics as well... That does not make much sense considering you are a big daddy now... A few things that pop into my mind:
- Interfase and layout are basically the same, even when the first time you were a human and now you are a monster inside a scuba suit (I don't know how much sense it makes if the big daddy have to inject plasmids)
- The drill and the gun are both on the same arm... Big daddies either had a drill or a gun, but not both, and the drill basically make that hand useless for anything else.
- You can now use plasmids... through your sealed suit.
- The radio message talking to the big daddy. As far as I know, Big Daddies are brutes that understand nothing and care for nothing but the little sisters.
- Movement looks like it is the same... You are now twice as big and heavy than in the first one, yet you seems to move at exactly the same pace.

I don't know. The game is still early in development, so I still have faith, but it doesn't seems like a sequel and it seems like the idea was hammed into the previous game...

Shit!! Chills down my spine there in the end! Nice ending! Im so psyched about this game

Seems like I expected something different.

still looks good though

Yep..I knew a long time ago I wanted nothing to do with Bioshock 2, now I can just 100% confirm that.

Bioshock is my favorite xbox game so I don't mind that this look similar to the original. The new combat mechanics of using plasmids in tandem with weapons and the big sister events will make it worth playing regardless of a multiplayer component. I'd like to be able to see some more footage in HD so we can see what kind of graphical tweaks we can expect, though I still think the original looks fantastic. Did i mention I love bioshock?

Well, it looks like Bioshock. That's a plus, I suppose.

I think people forgot how big Rapture really was. Watch the Intro video again from the first game.  You only saw a few small parts of it in Bioshock. 

Also the game was not directly based on any book, but does take some of its ideas from the book "Atlas Shrugged".

A good read if you have the time.

And what exactly does gametrailers do that everyone seems to hate?

"Do you guys have to support GameTrailers? le sigh. "

Can't wait! That looked awesome!

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

Very Nice.

AHHHH I JIZZED MY PANTS. I CANT WAIT!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.  

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

I hope this game is awesome.

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

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.