2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

[sfroggy1]

2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock (Article Link)

Los Angeles, CA - February 22, 2010

2K Games announced today an aggressive post-launch downloadable content plan for BioShock 2 that extends and enhances the single and multiplayer experiences by adding more glimpses into the award-winning world of Rapture.

Downloadable content will be made available soon, beginning with the Sinclair Solutions Test Pack, available this March from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows LIVE for 400 Microsoft Points.

Future expansions into the world of BioShock 2 are slated to arrive over the coming months and will continue to expand on the stories of the denizens of Rapture.​

“The fans who waited in the snow, rain and cold for the midnight launch of BioShock 2 have spoken and their message is that Rapture still has many fascinating stories to tell,”

said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K.

“Downloadable content is a key part of our efforts to continue to entice the fans that have made 2K a household name - we intend to deliver single and multiplayer content that respects and expands upon one of the greatest fictional worlds ever created.”

Sinclair Solutions Test Pack, the first of several planned downloadable packages, contains a number of customization features that will allow players to further their character’s development in BioShock 2’s multiplayer modes and provide a deeper multiplayer experience. The pack includes:​

• Rank Increase to level 50 with Rank Rewards
• New playable characters Louie McGraff and Oscar Calraca
• 20 new trials*
• A third weapon upgrade for each weapon
• Five additional masks*

*Some items are only available after a player achieves a rank of 41 or higher.

In the coming months, 2K Games will also be publishing downloadable extensions of the single player experience that provide new insight into the world of Rapture. These packages will include more narrative, new tools and new challenges that extend the lore and fiction of the failed Utopia under the sea.​

 

[Dzhessika]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

I've been playing BioShock 2 like a mofro, but I haven't touched the multiplayer yet. I'm afraid I'd love it too much and abandon Halo 3. I hear it's like epic on crack, though.

 

[Daemon300]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

I heard that Bioshock's multi is really crap judging by the comments on x360a.

 

[Dzhessika]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

I heard that Bioshock's multi is really crap judging by the comments on x360a.

This makes me sad. ): I'm afraid to try it now. In case it is horrible.

 

[sfroggy1]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

^ I haven't tried it either tbh. I haven't had enough time to finish the single player. Is it as good as the first game? God damn my demanding degree and its workload !

 

[Dzhessika]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

Haven't finished single player either. I pre ordered the special edition but was forced to have it delivered. So I just got it a couple days ago. ):

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

I wish they had stuck to single-player only and focused all effort and resources there, like with the original.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

Some friends who expected the multiplayer to be rubbish have told me its actually not bad. Wont be competing with the Xbox Live juggernauts of Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3 etc but it isnt bad apparently. I havent touched it as ive recently completed the single player and im going to replay for some more achievements so i cant pass my judgement on it.

 

[Purple Nurple]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

Tbh, I actually enjoy the multi of Bioshock 2 more than the single player - I felt that the single-player lacked the 'magic' of the original and it turned out to be a more shooting shooter, whereas the multiplayer was a completely new and original experience. I know many people think it as a tacked on extra, but it feels solid from the ground up. Made by an outside company as well.

However, the two characters coming in this DLC were supposed to have been in the original game. Not cool.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: 2K Reveals Single and Multiplayer DLC Plan for Bioshock 2

However, the two characters coming in this DLC were supposed to have been in the original game. Not cool.

I dont mind when its characters but when games are missing sections that were meant to be in the original game then sold for extra at a later date thats not cool (Assassins Creed 2 was latest example).