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A Look At Rapture, A Decade Later

It seems there's some ill business going on under the sea...

Oct. 26 2009

Posted by: Brad

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BioShock 2

Rapture

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Edited By BD_Mr_Bubbles

As the game that inspired my GT and PSN ID I hope this sequel does not dissapoint.
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I expect that this game will not blow me away in the same way that Bioshock did, but it still looks really, really good.

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I'll play it eventually. It'll be a solid game but the mystery and story is what made Bioshock. Everything I've seen for this one seems to be about plasmids and guns while the story kinda sits back. I hope I'm proven wrong though.  
 
I just love how they tell you in the trailer when the embargo lifts just as a reminder for journalists who got to play it to know when to start writing. Oh 2k, you attention whores...
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The story in the first one really drew me in. This one however I have no clue what's going on, and playing as "the first" big Daddy makes no sense since it's 10 years after the first one. I don't know. I wanna play it, but it might be a rental.

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The Spear gun/Rocket Spear looks fun, sticking people to walls but I was under the assumption that ONE Big Sister would be stalking and harassing you throughout the game but it turns out that there are multiple Big Sisters and the big bad villain this time around is...............Andrew Ryan's political rival ?!?!? REALLY?  That would be who is narrating the trailer.

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It looks good, but put me in the group that doesnt think there needs to be a sequel.  The original was one of my favorite games ever, but as much for the story and freshness of the art as for the action.  The art isn't unique this time, so the story really needs to pick it up... and I just don't see how they can get a good enough story with the information we have now.  It will probably be a good game, but I doubt it will live up to the original.
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Of course there is no NEED for a 2nd game, the 1st is still awesome and it wrapped everything up.  But do I want another Bioshock game, absolutely.  Hopefully they will realize, as has been said, that the story, characters and environment are what made the 1st game, not the shooting.  If they give me more of that, and their incredible scripted events, I am more than sold.

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Very nice music.

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@BolognaSoup: 
 
I totally agree.  There are so many sheep on this site its ridiculous, they read reviews and say how wonderful and awesome the review is, without ever even playing the game for themselves.
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i think they just suck at makin movies. 
 
the first one never had these combat game shorts, just that BADass cinematic.. if i remember correctly.
 
i mean... look at some of those cuts. that's a weird time to show him freezing the security thing.
 
great music though. ..
 
and yeah andeez is 110% correct.

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  and the shooting mechanic was weak in the first one, and hopefully will be so here. that's not what bioshock is about.
and that's what they're showing us.  cause there's no way they can divulge much of any story.
and everyone's saying meh.
hmm. it makes enough sense.

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Edited By Turtlemayor333

To the people crying nonsense about sheep, step up to the plate and say what actually looks good/improved about these trailers. BioShock was not just decent, it was incredible, and BioShock 2 from all indications isn't even trying to reach that level, let alone surpass it. This example is probably getting used way too often, but look at Uncharted's progression in comparison with this.
 
It will sell but from this gamer's point of view, if it looks like a duck, and it smells like a duck, it's probably...

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@GaLaXypwn3r: I agree with the prequel part, and for a long time I thought this sequel WAS suppose to be a prequel. Oh well. We'll just have to accept it for what it is. Another telling of a story that probably took place simultaneously with the original but in a different part of Rapture. If I'm wrong about the story part, please correct me, that was just my speculation. 
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I don't think Bioshock 2 has any reason to exist other than to fill 2K's pockets....
I won't be buying this game.

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do want do want

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I hope they take out than re-spawning chamber mechanic from the first game, and actually make this one a solid PFS experience.

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@darkjester74 said:

"Was that bit about the embrago lifting meant for public consumption?  Also:  Would you kindly...turn up the gamma correction?  I cant see a damn thing....  =\ "


I can see it perfectaly...
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Yay for 2K Australia

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this is bullshit, I''ve been waiting for this game for awile. I am even bored of bioshock now. impossible right?  and to find out they are having more multiplayer then anything, it looks like nothing but fighting non-stop is killing me. I hardly want to buy this game just to have the biggest let down , like dane cooks last stand up or jeff danhams new show. ( which sucks, lets be truthful now) everything that made everyone love bioshock is gone. no story line, no mystory ( i know i cant spell) no twist as far as i can see. the creapy music isnt the same, looks like theres no dieirys. and it looks like endless fighting like left 4 dead. it doesnt look like Rapture , it looks like what a 16 year old girl trys to do with a anime pic  she see online and trys to hand copy.     they tried too hard trying to make it freakier then the last game but it wasnt the fighting that made us love the game, it was the plot and the twist. if this game is a fail like i know it is i rather let go and no buy the game so i can keep bioshock in my mind a great game insted of playing the new game a hating it after and just goplay another great game like portal