BioShock 2 announced, drops Q4 2009
by Xav de Matos 
{ Mar 11th 2008 at 5:15PM }
After BioShock was met with critical and commercial success the prospect of a sequel seemed to be a foregone conclusion and today 2K Games finally admitted that the title is in the works. The surprising news is that 2K Boston, formally Irrational Games, will not be at the helm of BioShock 2's development, rather the job has been tasked to 2K Marin, who are reportedly staffed with former Irrational Games members. No involvement from Ken Levine was mentioned during the announcement.
The info dropped from an investor relations report 2K released today. With talks of an impending buyout on the horizon for parent company Take Two, the timing of this announcement couldn't be better. While the average gamer doesn't care about the business side of the industry, it will be interesting to see how Take Two's stock spikes based on the announcement. Either way, gamers can expect to take-out another group of Big Daddies in the last months of 2009 - so start lining up.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in. Via, Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Deck @ Mar 11th 2008 5:20PM
As great as this is...
I honestly wish that sometimes there wasn't a sequel. It seems to come as a standard now that any game that ends up doing really well (especially GOTY quality) turns into a "Franchise". I am so sick of everything turning into a "Franchise". Even if the developer is committed to make a quality product out of the franchise, its still frustrating. There wont ever be that "one game" anymore that just came out of the woodwork to be absolutely amazing but it was just the one. Now everything, everything has sequels and honestly, it IS rather frustrating.
Sky Shark X2 @ Mar 11th 2008 5:26PM
I'm waiting untill I see the full version, no trailers of fights that never happen and things that you can't do and just that(Seriously the first one's trailers over played what you could do immensly like shooting while flying backwards from being thrown there seems to be a lack of actual game play up untill the last few weeks in the traliers or at a couple of later trailers). Also really what can they do with this series? The first game answered pretty much every question, rapture won't even be that interesting. Part of it was even ruined by the fact that the water was done badly in a few places which broke you from the imersion, like in Cohan's(i think that was his name) area with his master piece, there's a leaking crack in the glass ceiling, water level never goes up or anything. I mean also at that depth the second a crack like that appeared the whole window would have failed and flooded the place. O
DemonGSides @ Mar 11th 2008 5:26PM
Every game I own has a number attached to it =\
Itchy_Tasty @ Mar 11th 2008 5:26PM
I don't know why it comes as a surprise that 2K Boston isn't developing the sequel. It's been rumored since the news of 2K Marin's inception that they would be working on the Bioshock sequel and that 2K Boston is working on the next installment of the X-Com series.
Sky Shark X2 @ Mar 11th 2008 5:26PM
Ignore that O at the end, has nothing to do with the post, just a typo.
Cal @ Mar 11th 2008 5:34PM
Does it come with fun this time? Sure the first one had atmosphere and some kind of attempt at being scary, but it forgot to be fun...
Ryan @ Mar 12th 2008 8:55AM
Deck...there was Crackdown, which came out of nowhere and ended up being very well received and does not look like it will get a sequel.
Swede33 @ Mar 11th 2008 6:21PM
Bioshock was good. It had nice graphics, a good story, and so on. It just didn't seem that great to me. Yes, it was fun, but it wasn't really that memorable. I had much more fun with the Orange Box than I did with Bioshock. I doubt I will pick up the sequel.
George Arauz @ Mar 11th 2008 6:32PM
Such a great game.. and im dying to see what 2K Boston does this time.
erivera3 @ Mar 11th 2008 6:36PM
I found the first Bioshock to be extremely overrated, and just wasn't fun for me. Hope they work on that for the second game.
SadisticHam @ Mar 11th 2008 7:44PM
Lets hope it doesn't suck, i liked the first but i can really see this becoming a red faction.
First was godly, the second was a big steamy pile of crap.
webster1990 @ Mar 11th 2008 7:55PM
i sort of hope it isn't a true sequel. Simply another game with the same mechanics, like a spiritual successor, like bioshock was to system shock.
Keep the name so average consumers know what they are getting, just completely change the setting and story.
Teabag @ Mar 11th 2008 8:16PM
I would like a completely new setting and story as well...just in Bioshock style. The story can't be continued without being crap. Unless the writers are geniuses.
Deck @ Mar 11th 2008 10:19PM
@Ryan: True, good point. My mistake, I missed that one. Maybe they are not ALL gone.
dylan @ Mar 12th 2008 5:37AM
Two words, pre quel.... or is that one? (sarcasm is hard on the internet) I want to see the madness beginning.
Drewtlo @ Mar 12th 2008 6:48AM
A sequel would be interesting, but I hope they either cut back or eliminate the hacking puzzles. Those got to be monotonous. *sigh* oh boy....ANOTHER pipe puzzle.
svenhoek @ Mar 12th 2008 2:33PM
Im sort of glad Boston isnt developing it. Maybe now they can go on and make something else as innovative and exciting as Bioshock was, without getting stuck in sequel hell. Just like IF with CoD. When CoD5 comes out, i probably wont even touch the damn thing, ill still be pwing n00blets on CoD4.
Or i might be back onto Halo 3 with all that delicious content they say they are going to keep feeding us.
DemonGSides summed up this industry in one sentence. "Every game i own has a number next to it"
Daemon6 @ May 17th 2008 12:59AM
Here's my opinion for the game:
The game should be based off on either a whole new story line including new characters, enemies, etc. along with a story line, or possibly a story line that leads to the beginning of Bioshock (a beginning point before Rapture went into complete chaos). If its the same as before then there's no point to buy it. There shouldn't be online play. If you want to kill 12-14 year olds online and make smart remarks to them, go play Halo 3. Possibly multiplayer if they can sort it out well enough. It may be even fun to have co-op for the story (I personally prefer co-op for more fun and challenges). If they pull this off, it will be worth to play.