February 9, 2010
2K Games Announces BioShock 2 Now
Available Worldwide
Sequel to the 2007 Game of the
Year welcomes players back to the decayed magnificence of Rapture with rave
reviews from the industry’s top critics
2K Games announced today that
BioShock 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2007 Game of the Year, is now
available worldwide for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Games for Windows-LIVE.
Building upon the original game that shipped more than three million units
worldwide, BioShock 2 delivers a single and multiplayer video game experience
that is both an artistic achievement in entertainment and a highly addictive
first-person shooter.
"BioShock represented a watershed
moment in the gaming industry when it illustrated that games, like feature
films, can be viewed as art – both in art design and in the rich depth of the
narrative," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. "Most importantly, the
media are stating what we’ve known all along; that whether or not you’ve played
the original, BioShock 2 is a worthy successor to one of the best games of
all-time that should not be missed."
The single player serves as a sequel
to the original game and provides fans with an unsettling storyline, dazzling
visual design and the evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter gameplay.
Set almost a decade after a grueling civil war consumed the once magnificent
city of Rapture, evil reverberates through the halls and a wickedness once
thought gone forever returns along the Atlantic seaboard. An unspeakable series
of kidnappings from local seaside communities by an unseen monster leads to the
repopulation of Little Sisters in Rapture’s failed utopia under the ocean.
Players must step into the boots of one of gaming’s most iconic characters, the
Big Daddy, as they traverse through the fallen city, fending off attacks from an
army of genetically modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key to
their survival.
Multiplayer in BioShock 2 provides
fans with a rich and engrossing prequel experience that expands upon the fiction
of Rapture’s origins. Set during the year before Rapture’s descent into chaos,
players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair Solutions, a key
provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater city that was first explored
in BioShock. Players will enter into areas from the original title as they
struggle to gain superiority in franticly paced battles.
Following in the critically
acclaimed footsteps of its predecessor, BioShock 2 has already received high
scores from the top gaming and consumer press:
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"This is one of the best games
you’ll ever play." – PlayStation: The Official Magazine, 5 out of 5 stars,
Editor’s Choice Award -
"2K Marin has breathed incredible
life into nearly every aspect of Ryan’s undersea society, not only justifying
the need for a sequel, but leaving me incredibly eager to re-explore its
dilapidated halls." – GamePro Magazine, 5 out of 5, Editor’s Choice Award
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"You will be utterly absorbed." –
Official Xbox Magazine, 9.5 out of 10, Editor’s Choice Award -
"It’s a rare thing for games built
with this kind of big budget to take seriously a thematic cohesion between
setting, story, and gameplay, yet that’s exactly what we get here." – IGN.com,
9.1 out of 10, Editor’s Choice Award -
"The mechanics that made the
original BioShock such fun return, better than before." – PC Gamer, 90%,
Editor’s Choice Award -
Beyond the gaming press, Playboy
Magazine, the iconic men’s lifestyle magazine, awarded it a perfect four of
out four stars and selected it as Game of the Month.
BioShock 2 was developed by 2K Marin
in collaboration with 2K Australia, Digital Extremes and 2K China for Xbox 360,
PlayStation 3 and Games for Windows-LIVE, and is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.
For more information on BioShock 2
please visit www.bioshock2game.com,
www.cultofrapture.com
and
www.somethinginthesea.com.
