I think the 2K Marin team made some great decisions in crafting the sequel. I would wager that it will eventually hit Zelnick’s target. 10, making it one of the true blockbusters of 2010. The game has sold more than 3 million units since its launch on Feb. The goal, according to Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick, was to create a sequel to the game that sold more than 5 million copies. More than 100 people worked on the game, which means that its budget was probably in the tens of millions of dollars. They added multiplayer combat, thanks to work from another studio, Digital Extremes. The studio labored on the game for more than 2.5 years. With BioShock 2, Take-Two Interactive decided to take a kernel of the original team and built a new studio, 2K Marin, to create the game, with help from 2K Australia. The primary creator, Ken Levine, moved on to another secret project. The first game sold more than 3 million copies and got an average 94 out of 100 on, a review aggregator. Thanks to all of this, Take-Two Interactive’s Irrational Games, teamed with 2K Australia, managed to create a great new franchise in the video game industry. Terrifying enemies and scenes were foreshadowed with the best of horror techniques. You could set them on fire and they screamed in agony. The enemies, or splicers who had taken too much of a body-altering drug called ADAM, were haunting.
In that first game, you hunted down Ryan in search of an explanation of what had gone so bad in his utopia. Its design was a mixture of art deco, with the fashions and music of a distant age, and the weird weaponry of DNA experimentation gone awry in an alternate history. The city itself was like a 1930s throwback, mixed with the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz. Ryan was a believer in the Objectivist theories of Ayn Rand, and he was intent on creating a super race of people through genetic modification. Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry.īioShock’s world of Rapture was created by megalomaniac Andrew Ryan as an underwater haven for the intellectuals of the world. Jaded hardcore gamers were delighted at the creativity of both the game play - where you constantly choose which combinations of special powers (plasmids) and weapons to hit the enemy with - and the crazy twists of the plot that made the story unpredictable and engrossing. When the first BioShock came out in 2007, it was a pleasant surprise. They have to keep you on the edge of your seat.īut even with this sharp criticism of one facet of the game, I have to also acknowledge that BioShock 2 lives up to the original in a big way. They can’t make it too easy, and they can’t make it too hard. This is a tiny flaw, but it shows that game designers really have to pay attention to the balance of power in a game. And, of course, I could have played the game on the absolutely hardest level. There are creatures, such as the Big Sister, which are immune to hypnotism, but they are beatable.
If some of the enemies were immune to the hypnotism spell, then I would have had a tougher time getting through the final levels of the game. The hypnotism trick thus brings the game to a close a little too swiftly for me.Ī simple modification might have fixed this. The trouble with this is that the game play and environment of this game are so good, I wanted the experience to last forever. It was like I had a nuclear weapon and the other side did not I just had to use it, and nothing could stand in my way. But the game designers put a little bit too much power in the player’s hands with the hypnotism spell. I will take the underwater utopia-gone-bad environment of Rapture over any other game’s environment. The developers of the sequel brought a fresh eye to the experience of this world that the original creators came up with. It is a wonderful combination of horror, nostalgic art style, addictive game play, and an engrossing story. I just finished the game and loved the experience. It made finishing the game too easy.ĭon’t get me wrong. It’s a fun trick to play, but it wound up ruining the game in a lot of ways. I had to hypnotize the enemies so that they would shoot each other and not me. Register today.Īt a certain point in BioShock 2, I figured out what I needed to do to win the video game.
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