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BioShock 2: The Multiplayer Trailer

Here's a look at the online action currently besieging Rapture.

Sep. 7 2009

Posted by: Brad

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BioShock 2

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Edited By Se7enthSamurai

Just seems like a game never meant to have multiplayer and they're just forcing it in.

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Edited By ch3burashka

Animations don't look too great, but there's still time left.

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Edited By paulosaurus

 
I'm trying to keep my hopes down for this one.  I know that if I expect it to be as good as the first Bioshock, I'll only be disappointed.  I still hope this turns out great, though.

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Edited By Zeemod

That intro has Fallout 3 written all over it.
 
Gameplay looks panicky, complicated and a little overwhelming, but I'm just going to assume that cause I know nothing about it yet ;D

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Edited By MCXCI

There's a reason there was no multiplayer in the first one. This is what happens when a marketing team gets a hold of your game.

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Edited By jacksukeru
@Damien: No, you're definetly not :)
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Edited By Renegade
@zeemod155 said:
" That intro has Fallout 3 written all over it. Gameplay looks panicky, complicated and a little overwhelming, but I'm just going to assume that cause I know nothing about it yet ;D "
Bioshock had that style before Fallout 3, so the intro to Fallout 3 has Bioshock written all over it ;)
 
I'll wait to see more on the multiplayer before passing judgment on it.
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I just do not see this working but all I can hope is the single player is still good

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Edited By Leadcat

I loved the first, but they're focusing on the multiplayer so much it's making me seriously worried for this game. :\

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Edited By Banjo_ace

depressing all wait for the review

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Edited By Korax

Yet another game that doesn't need multiplayer. At least the fact that it's developed by another studio means that single player shouldn't suffer for it.

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Edited By MeatSim

Looking at this it seems like it's gonna be really unbalanced but I don't know.

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Something about this just doesn't seem right.

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Edited By Vitefish

I don't know why everyone is so worried. This trailer actually looks pretty effing sweet.

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Edited By DrRandle

Looks like it could be interesting. I hope there aren't a lot of achievements tied to it, though. I'd rather play the single player multiple times, I should think. Unless that turns out to be way more fun than I think it will. Also: will you get to create your own splicer? That'd be nifty...

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@Renegade said:
" @zeemod155 said:
" That intro has Fallout 3 written all over it. Gameplay looks panicky, complicated and a little overwhelming, but I'm just going to assume that cause I know nothing about it yet ;D "
Bioshock had that style before Fallout 3, so the intro to Fallout 3 has Bioshock written all over it ;)   I'll wait to see more on the multiplayer before passing judgment on it. "
Fallout had that art style WAY before Bioshock.
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Edited By citizenkane

Looks kind of meh to me.  Oh well, I was going to get BioShock 2 for the single-player anyways.

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Edited By XYL0L

Umm, am I the only person currently terrrified at the prospect of a BIg Daddy teabag? 
Anyone? 
Arrgrgrh, the steel, it crushes...

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This looks positively awful and will stand as a fine example of why putting multiplayer where multiplayer does not belong is never a good idea.

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still sticking with MW2 thank you very much

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Edited By jinxman
I'm still not sure how I feel about Bioshock 2
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@wrecks said:
"BigDaddy mode looks kinda interesting.... Let's hope they focused more on creating solid single player adventure that keeps up with the original. "

Amen to that brother
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@Renegade said:

" @zeemod155 said:

" That intro has Fallout 3 written all over it. Gameplay looks panicky, complicated and a little overwhelming, but I'm just going to assume that cause I know nothing about it yet ;D "
Bioshock had that style before Fallout 3, so the intro to Fallout 3 has Bioshock written all over it ;)   I'll wait to see more on the multiplayer before passing judgment on it. "


 

For starters... u can always go back to Fallout 2 (1998)...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PXiV95kwA       
 
or even Fallout 1 if you're that curious...  tho Fallout 1 doesnt' exactly apply the style to its intro/trailers, it is more applied to the game interface, pip-boy, specifically... 
 
(do correct me for any info.  discrepancy...  i can alwasy be wrong...)
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Edited By End_Boss

Other than the Big Daddy bit, I was pretty unimpressed by what I just saw. Not that that's terribly surprising... Why can't Bioshock just be what it has been; a great single-player experience?

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my that didnt look very good at all...

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Edited By mattysen

Next Left 4 Dead? Mabye?  
 
NEVER

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Edited By Fubar

Parts from something we have seen before mixed together ... not that interesting.

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WHY?!
 
:'(

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Meh

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Edited By quirkwood

Woah! Whats with the hating so many people seem to be laying down here. They wouldn't be putting multiplayer in the game if people hadn't asked for it (a peson not buying a game because it doesn't have multiplayer is still asking for it).  
 
People complaining about this not looking so great, I vaguely remember Bioshock not looking so amazing (still an awesome game mind you). Waxy looking character models, bizzare twisted/squashed limbs and physics that failed to take fluid friction into account causing limbs to flail about non stop on dead splicers. 
 
If the general public weren't so "I won't buy a game unless it has mulitiplayer" 2K wouldn't feel the need to tack it on. Besides, nobody has actually played this yet, very little of the single player campaign has been seen so untill people actually play it/see more they should STFU.

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Edited By ArbitraryWater

Whats this I see? Some unneeded multiplayer in a single player experience?

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Edited By Turtlemayor333
@quirkwood said:
" Woah! Whats with the hating so many people seem to be laying down here. They wouldn't be putting multiplayer in the game if people hadn't asked for it (a peson not buying a game because it doesn't have multiplayer is still asking for it).   People complaining about this not looking so great, I vaguely remember Bioshock not looking so amazing (still an awesome game mind you). Waxy looking character models, bizzare twisted/squashed limbs and physics that failed to take fluid friction into account causing limbs to flail about non stop on dead splicers.  If the general public weren't so "I won't buy a game unless it has mulitiplayer" 2K wouldn't feel the need to tack it on. Besides, nobody has actually played this yet, very little of the single player campaign has been seen so untill people actually play it/see more they should STFU. "
The mistake you're making is assuming the gamers asked for this sloppy mutliplayer. Yes, some exist, but
it's really the business executive who doesn't know Halo from Harvest Moon who thinks cramming as many game modes and tacking on as many development teams as possible will equal more dollars. 
 
The "general public who won't buy unless it has multiplayer" you're referring to made the first a huge success and (even though it isn't a shooter) Assassin's Creed the most successful original IP in video games. And lastly if they want us to STFU with the negative comments then maybe they should stop releasing these terrible trailers.
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BioShock 2: The Sequel is on my short-list of games I wouldn't mind seeing tank financially. 
Certain games (or Franchises, if you will) are better left alone (or expanded from within ... Valve). The execs and other money-minds would of course cry "missed opportunity". But I don't mind sending back a collective MEH message to an obviously low-risk product. 
 
I could see why someone would pick a game like this up. I call it "the dude abides" rule. But I still have piss on my rug. So fuck 'em!

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What's the use in this multiplayer component? It looks contrived and uninteresting, not to mention that the original Bioshock sold magnificently with no multiplayer whatsoever.

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This seems very uninteresting to me. 
It doesn't even seem to have any kind of hook.  It's just kinda there.
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Sounds like Ratchet and Clank, not Bioshock.

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Edited By galfisk

This looks like the first Bioshock. I'll think I'll give this a miss.

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this is completely not what i want from a bioshock game

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Edited By niccoles

Man...now I why Bioshock 1 did not have multiplayer. This game is starting to become a bummer.

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Edited By Glennygisbad

That shit looks retarded. If single player stuff lacks quality because of time devoted to this garbage then its a fucking shame.  There is only so much time I have for Multiplayer games and MW2 and ODST will be occupying damn near all of it.

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@Damian: Good point.
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Edited By WickedCestus

People are worrying too much. It was a different studio who did the multiplayer so the story mode will still be fantastic. To be honest, I don't think this multiplayer looks that awful. It's their universe, and their story, so they can do what they want with it. This and the fact that you play as a big daddy show that they're trying something different, rather than just doing what everybody else said they should do. 

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OOF!
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and graphics look.......the same. 
disappointed.
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That did nothing for my penis.

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This looks pretty bloody awful...
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Worst than I thought it would be. Lame.

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Edited By JauntyHat

Because we all know that Bioshock is a multi-player game. I find it interesting that a lot of people are gonna pass up the single-player experience just because of the multi-player.

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And that's why there was supposed to be one Bioshock.

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Edited By halfameatball

Bioshock really didn't need a sequel. I hope I'm proven wrong, but this just seems forced.