Bioshock 2

[James Stacey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGb0MAYgt80&feature=player_embedded

First game in a long time that I can't wait for. Heading back into Rapture will make all right with the world

[uncle fester]

WOW  That's some trailer...

[Dan Kelly]

I have a preorder and am definitely looking forward to this.

The only downside is for the last few weeks the better half has been working late.  Bet that stops once I want to have as much time as possible to veg in front of the PS3

[SteveMillar]

Ordered mine from zavvi £29.99 for the special edition with the art book ! had a email from them yesterday saying it had been posted !! and it doesn't officially get released till next tuesday !

[James Stacey]

Ordered mine from zavvi £29.99 for the special edition with the art book ! had a email from them yesterday saying it had been posted !! and it doesn't officially get released till next tuesday !

Thats a pretty nifty price, I didn't realise Zavvi were still going.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

I think I'm the only person in the world, certainly the only regular gamer in the world, who isn't interested in this.

I gave up on the first Bioshock. It was pretty, (especially the fire effects) but it was dull. No variation to the scenery. No variation to the bad guys. And more linear than Lineas Line of Line Avenue going to work on a light cycle.

Ho. Hum.

It didn't even have an interesting story to redeem it. Yes, it had a twist - but, really, what happened in the game? It was like a bad futureshock - a good idea ("let's have an art deco city under the sea") but with no actual story.

Nah, not for me. And I think I knows my games. I've got Dragon Age and Mass Effect to finish, Demon Blade on the Wii and then Alpha Protocol should be out. I'll get AvP too, mostly because I spend far too much of my disposable income on Rebellion stuff but also because if I'm going to blow stuff up then I like some aliens to be involved.

[Minkyboy]

I thought Bioshock was quite good, but not a patch on System Shock 2 (which it shares an heritage) or Fallout 3 which was and is amazing!!

But the reason I won't be getting Bioshock 2 is because of the little sisters. As a dad of 2 girls (toddler and baby) it was just heartbreaking to have little girls in danger/pain etc. in Bioshock. I finished the game because I was into it by then but no little sister came to any harm at all on my watch (even if I had to reload 18 times!).
Just watching that trailer has done my head in and I want to rush home and give Daisy a hug!

I don't know if Trouty or other dad's feel the same but I just can't disassociate enough to play games with kids in like this.

Perhaps this is what the 'ban violent video games' brigade feel like when they see an alien/nazi/werewolf being fried/shot/speared??

[Spartacus Hughes]

I think I'm the only person in the world, certainly the only regular gamer in the world, who isn't interested in this.

And I thought I was alone in my dislike for this game. Most disappointing game since Rise of the Robots. 

My problem was that I never felt any real danger as if you die you just respawn but the enemies keep the damage you dished out previously, so I found myself not caring whether I died or not.

[Mikey]

I think Bioshock could arguably be labelled style over content, but I really liked it, maybe because it was the first game I played on me Xbox 360. I think it had a really good 'feel' overall with some great design work IMO.

I'm pobably buying 2 this weekend...

M.

[Cyberleader2000]

just a quick qustion is the first game nesserey to play the second one see if it is I will go buy the first one and play that befor I go get the second one

[mogzilla]

didnt really like the first after the initial wow but it soon got samey with too much backtracking

however gave the second one a go with my tesco free rental vouchers and even though theyve improved the hacking and you can dual wield weapons with powers (zap and blast without swopping its still the same...

roll on red dead redemption.

[the shutdown man]

The first one was certainly pretty, and very atmospheric, but after the second or third Big Daddy experience which for me amounted to: fire off ten shots, reducing daddy's health by maybe 8%, get killed, regenerate miles away, walk back to fight with less ammo, repeat ad nauseum, I got too frustrated with it. I may give the new one a go if it looks like they've changed the fight structure, but I won't be preordering it anyway.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I actualley got this for X-mas....Along Age of Conan, X-men Origins: Wolverine, and Sins of the Solar Empire which turns out to be abit of FireBird's ELITE mixxed in with HomeWorld.

BioShock, the first game

I'm really impressed with the water physics, retro futureristic vending machines, and weapons in thsi game that could almost be compared with Doom Three.

It's pity that it's tempermental on the computer I've been using. If it runs on full screen. Then it wil definatly freeze and hang. So, I have to run it in a minaturised window. As it will work without a hitch this way most of the time. Anyway, this game is well known for the problems it's caused on many computers.

By far the most difficult shooter I have played with a vastly superior enemy A.I.

These little girls aren't really little girls or maybe they are. You need to wonder with the way their eyes glow and they act almost oblivious to their surroundings. As I noticed that when they are liberated, they will only go crawl back into their little specically made cubby holes.

Still making my way through this, and I'm probably two thirds of the way now. Playing on the weekends while not on Age of Conan.

Don't know about the sequel though and I have to agree with the the Enigmatic Dr X that it really does get too repetative and samey after playing it extencively, level upon level. Even with all the attention to detail. When I started playing I was more busy admiring the authentic poster art, and other decals. I even got to like the samples of nineteen forties music, and radio voice overs, advertisments and the recorded commentry. Care of, the other main characters.

The creepy inhabitants did get to me and my progress through this game is slow going and the Big Daddies. I actualley kill one with out dieing, but I had to do alot of running, up and down spiral staircase and hiding and running back up again to fire another volley. That was hard going and after that I just couldn't be bothered maintaining my record for staying alive in this game.

It's a shame that the sequel is showing more of the same. Even if upgraded, and evenif you get to be a Big Daddy with speical powers.

I hope they eventually get out of Rapture.

I really enjoyed the telekinesis.

By The Way, ShutDownMan?

Thats very intimidating, but is it really you?

[TordelBack]

I don't know if Trouty or other dad's feel the same but I just can't disassociate enough to play games with kids in like this.

Yup, I have this problem too, and not just with games.  I was all set to buy the big Walking Dead Omnibus with a Christmas book token, having read it all care of the library and feeling like giving Kirkman and Adlard a few sheckels, and then happened to flip it open on that page... and realised I couldn't have it sitting there on my shelf.  Ditto Dead Calm and The Descent, both excellent films that I never want to see again because of their opening sequences.  Parental wusshood.

[the shutdown man]

By The Way, ShutDownMan?

Thats very intimidating, but is it really you?

 

Thankfully no. It's just a pic that makes me smile.