The LOOSE TALK section of the latest issue of Game Informer issue has reported that 2k Marin are in such in need of help with Bioshock 2 that they have turned for help from (the former) BioShock guru, Ken Levin. The report states that 

 Among those 2k Marin has turned for help on BioShock 2 recently was Ken Levin, designer of the original BioShock. What's more unfortunate - that they had to go and ask Levin for his help at this stage of development, or that he wouldn't do it?

"2K Boston is still recovering - a good chunk of the BioShock team did not want to work with Ken ever again, and 2K definitely understood the sentiment and let them set up a new studio so that they can make  Bioshock 2, leaving Ken with  Project X. A good chunk of the other senior 2K Boston people who were sick of Ken but didn't move to San Francisco ended up scattering to other AAA developers instead. In Quincy, they're essentially rebuilding a team from almost scratch again."    

Couldn't care less about the controversy surrounding Ken Levine and 2K Marin.  So long as the game comes out good, I really don't care.  *Cue the dozens of morons who are going to say Bioshock 2 will suck, well before they've played it*

If true, doesn't bode well for Bioshock 2

If they hadn't already sunk in a F**kton of money, I'd say scrap the whole project. This game just isn't looking good, and it's only going to tarnish the Bioshock name. This is what happens when you try too hard to make a sequel to a game that didn't really need one to begin with. Their best option would have been to either wait till Levin's team could do it, personally, or go the better route of making a new System Shock game. Worse comes to worse, they could just slap "from the makers of Bioshock!!!" on the box, if they're really worried that people these days don't know what System Shock is. But hell... it sounds enough like Bioshock, anyway.

Bioshock shouldn't have a sequel, no need other than greedyness. And I can tell you point blank it won't be as good as the original, firs thing is I already seen that place so immediatley it drops down a couple of levels of amazement. Second point, the main guy Levine is not on the project. So just by general intuition and the way the project seems to be going I can tell that it won't be as good. Whenever you see people leaving a project to someone else bad sign. I don't think the game will be terrible it might actually be good just no where near as good and amazing as the first one was.

I am also of the mindset that a sequel to Bioshock was never a good idea. The fact that they have to go to Ken Levin for help kind of proves how disjointed the entire project is.

I don't think Microsoft will allow the name System Shock, too much irony. 

2 System, 2 Shock? Okay... I don't want to derail the thread here... enough of that (Plus, that doesn't make any sense, since there was already a System Shock 2).

" I don't think Microsoft will allow the name System Shock, too much irony.  "

" @Ping5000: No, wait. I have a better idea.  Zyztem Zhock "

Is anyone actualy interested in Bioshock 2? Even if you loved the first game I can't see how this game would excite you.

" Is anyone actualy interested in Bioshock 2? Even if you loved the first game I can't see how this game would excite you. "

" Is anyone actualy interested in Bioshock 2? Even if you loved the first game I can't see how this game would excite you. "

Levin's solution was "don't make a sequel". Maybe they should go with that. Remake the assets and call it something else.

I starting to get the feeling that 2K has no clue what their doing with the game