Meh, cool idea, but I'm still holding 'till the game comes out before I jump to any conclusion on it's quality and coolness.

I was gonna get it anyway but that sounds cool.

...However cool it sounds, I'm waiting until I see it in motion before I pass judgement. Like, I still wish multi-player wasn't part of BioShock 2, to be honest. I mean, even if it is good (which I doubt) it's still going to have a tiny online community.

And people thought that  MP for Bioshock would be a bad thing. 

That certainly does sound interesting, though I don't see much strategy in it without the hazards like pools of water on the ground you can shock people in.

Does this mean there'll be some kind of story element to the multiplayer?

I dunno... I'm not trying to hate, but the SHOOTING was the worst part of Bioshock, or in my case, the wrenching.  Considering that is almost all the multiplayer is, I feel like they will be emphasizing the worst part of Bioshock by doing this.  I'm not asking for it to be like Call of Duty 4 or anything, but does anybody here actually expect to play this online for more than an hour?

I'm still not happy that they are including multiplayer into this game.  They better not cut the singleplayer short just to pander to multiplayer.

Irrational Games, now 2k Boston, isn't touching this game. 2k Marin is the primary dev.

This opens up a lot of possibilities for the MP.  This way they'll be able to show numerous locations at different times, without having to provide a story arc for each.

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I'm still not happy that they are including multiplayer into this game.  They better not cut the singleplayer short just to pander to multiplayer.

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"This opens up a lot of possibilities for the MP.  This way they'll be able to show numerous locations at different times, without having to provide a story arc for each."

Still need to play the 1st Bioshock

i'm hoping that they actually put work into making the MP good, since BioShock is a single player game, and single player story and gameplay is done very well i wouldn't want them to just throw in MP just to say they have it like many games try to do. Stick to what you do well, and now that they have released it has MP, lets just hope they do that well also

Honestly, that's actually pretty clever. If they're going to add mutiplayer to the series, this is the way to do it. 

Just like with the reveal of the DJ Hero's waffle iron, this announcement - while not unexpected - leaves me a little cold.   Everytime they bring me back onside with Bioshock 2 they show me another thing I'm supposed to want - but don't.  It seems disingenuous to say the Bioshock feedback wanted multiplayer.  If they can spin that line out, why should I believe the last commentary about them being a safe pair of hands... Multiplayer was just the easy choice to add value for the investors of the product, and secure a bigger budget for the developer.  How'd they pitch it?

'It's like Shadowrun seen through a lavalamp.'

I just hope, now we are stuck with it, they don't pull a Farcry 2 and give us multiplayer achievements.

This article made the multiplayer sound a whole lot better, the leveling system sounds fun as does the general concept surrounding mp...I like it. :)

I'm of two minds about this.

Multiplayer will probably be fun, and having another studio doing it means that it won't affect single player.  That's cool.

Calling it a "prequel" is not doing justice to the idea of a prequel.  You could probably set a pretty cool RPG in a functional Rapture.  I'd prefer if they just called this what it is - a standalone multiplayer mode that doesn't fit into BioShock canon, but can be properly developed without having to remake all of the assets required.

The idea to take bioshock and splice (pun intended) it with a CoD4 style of upgrade system is pretty cool. Can we have a prestige mode pls? :D

I guess I am a bad person then.

hmmm interesting...

I really like that idea. So simple and yet so cool. We get the sequel we want and we get to see what Rapture was like before the shit really hit the fan. Bravo 2K bravo.

Sigh... We really don't need it, but I suppose if we're going to get Bioshock multiplayer anyways, this is at least some kind of step in the right direction... I think?

As long as the single player is as amazing as the original. Multiplayer is whatev.

I still don't think multiplayer in Bioshock is a great idea, but at least they're outsourcing it to a team that knows how to do good multiplayer.  That gives me a bit more hope.

Oh god...its being done by the dark sector tards....what have they done. At least the 2k guys are doing to SP...don't have to waste their time with the MP...hopefully make a good game. There still should not be a bioshock 2.

No just no.

"Honestly, that's actually pretty clever. If they're going to add mutiplayer to the series, this is the way to do it. "

Eeeeh, though I feel that this'll turn out better than most people suspect, I'm really not all that sure that it's necessary to have multiplayer in Bioshock.  I mean, unless this single player is far inferior (which I suspect it might be) to its predecessor, I can't see many people getting really into this.

Sounds kind of gimmicky. It's like how they continued the Warcraft universe in WoW instead of a proper Warcraft 4. Storyline + multiplayer = dumb.

Yes I too eagerly await exciting modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture the Flag TM

I also think that giving Bioshock multiplayer the COD4 style treatment sounds pretty interesting.  It seems that a lot of the plasmids would work pretty nicely as perks.  Who knows if that's how it'll work, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. 

I don't know why people hate so much before it happens, like it's a sin to add multiplayer to a series like Bioshock.  Sure games like Metroid Prime 2 don't provide great track records, but if you ask me it's innocent 'til proven guilty.

That's a brilliant design decision, imho.  For once the MP part of a game now makes sense in the scope of the story, and I am really excited to see pre-fall Rapture.

MP mode? Not buying the game now. What a shitty decision.

MP could be really fun. I never get why people diss SP games when they add a MP it's not like it's gonna hurt the game if you don't like it don't play it only play the SP.

I'm a tad skeptical...but I'm definitely interested in how this works out. Most of the appeal of Rapture for me was the atmosphere of the city in ruin; I'm not so sure I'll dig it pre-ruin as much. But Bioshock was rad enough for me to give these dudes the benefit of the doubt for now. 

Just what I always wanted in Bioshock...multiplayer deathmatch? Huh? Who the hell asked for multiplayer? *sigh*, what next, Lego Bioshock? Bioshock: Aerosmith/world tour?

It sounds more like a simple premise for competitive multiplayer than an important story component to me.
And wasn't the multiplayer in Dark Sector busted?

I don't understand why people wanted MP from the first game. It didn't need it and BioShock 2 doesn't need it either. It's pointless. Just because a game is in 1st person doesn't mean it automatically needs multiplayer.

Some games just should not have a multiplayer mode, Bioshock is one of them.

I am glad they are taking a careful approach to multiplayer, adding some story into it. I am extremely hyped for this game and I think it will be awesome. This is just more icing on the cake.

I've always thought Bioshock multiplayer would be fun, just for the use of plasmids. Just like how I think the Bionic Commando multiplayer is awesome because of the bionic arm... Why does everyone hate multiplayer with cool gimmicks like those? Do we all just want "omg shooting and leveling"?

meh, more interested in the main story / single player.

That's a fantastic approach. I wish Halo had taken this route.

bioshock shouldnt have multiplayer, but if it had to, this is totally what I would want.

o, really?

Makes me feel less bad that I'm definitely buying this.

hmm... was thinking it would be similar to SystemShock 2's co-op multiplayer...