BioShock 2 due November 3

2K Marin-developed sequel to critical and commercial undersea action RPG will surface this fall; EU/UK release planned for October 30.

Other than better-than-expected earnings and lowered fiscal-year guidance, today's Take-Two Interactive earnings call was chock-full of major news items. The New York City-based publisher used the call to reveal that the second Grand Theft Auto IV expansion, The Ballad of Gay Tony, would arrive this fall as both a digital download and part of a stand-alone retail compilation. It also delayed two of its biggest 2009 releases, Red Dead Redemption and Mafia II, until sometime between November 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010. Finally, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K10 would return to the Wii, and that its MLB 2K series has been taken over by NBA 2K developer Visual Concepts.

Besides all that, Take-Two imprint 2K Games has finally dated BioShock 2, the forthcoming sequel to its critically hailed undersea action role-playing game from 2007. The game's official Web site is now touting that the game will ship on October 30 internationally and on November 3 in North America simultaneously for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. It has not yet been officially rated by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, but will almost certainly bear an M-for-Mature sticker like its forbearer.

Developed by 2K Marin, BioShock 2 has the rare distinction of being both a sequel and prequel to BioShock. As outlined in GameSpot's recent preview, the single-player campaign is set roughly 10 years after the events in the first game. Players return to the undersea realm of Rapture, donning the diving boots of a prototype "Big Daddy" caught up in a wave of kidnappings by a new creature: the "Big Sister." By contrast, the game's multiplayer component will be set before the internecine conflict that turned the utopian Rapture into a very dystopian place.

In addition to the date reveal, 2K Games has relaunched its teaser site for BioShock 2, Somethinginthesea.com. A rep for the company promised that the site, which revealed the game's aquatic kidnap-spree setup, would be the site of "exciting new updates" in the coming weeks.

150 Comments

  • ShotgunSteiner

    Posted May 30, 2009 3:01 pm PT

    Dude, that was awsome. I can hardly wait...

  • pidow

    Posted May 30, 2009 11:30 am PT

    It appears to me that Bioshock two, will be better than one...again, my opinion....looking forward to playing.

  • ThomasMaster

    Posted May 29, 2009 5:20 pm PT

    its gonna be awesome

  • kairikh

    Posted May 29, 2009 1:30 pm PT

    cant wait!

  • rockutd

    Posted May 29, 2009 4:19 am PT

    Will be looking forward

  • mattcarlo

    Posted May 28, 2009 9:02 pm PT

    Should be a great game.

  • thenephariouson

    Posted May 28, 2009 10:48 am PT

    My Birthday! Get In!!!! : )

  • ChinoStylz

    Posted May 28, 2009 5:32 am PT

    November? Crap, now its down to turkey vs Bioshock 2.

  • cockneyscouse

    Posted May 28, 2009 5:22 am PT

    @UbdU
    it wont affect single player at all, they are using a different developer to make the multiplayer. Genius idea IMO, hope other developers take note.

  • Jettero-Heller

    Posted May 27, 2009 8:23 pm PT

    Works for me. Will preorder.

    Why the heck did I have to slog through an entire paragraph of friggin earnings reports just to get to what the headline advertised??

  • UbdU

    Posted May 27, 2009 8:04 pm PT

    Here's hoping the work on the multiplayer doesn't detract from the single-player experience.

  • abosh1

    Posted May 27, 2009 4:09 pm PT

    cool, cant wait

  • StarlightHunter

    Posted May 27, 2009 3:35 pm PT

    Same here unfrotunatly I'm away for 6 months.

  • jtthegame316

    Posted May 27, 2009 3:17 pm PT

    getting bioshock 2 definetly

  • Mactiddeus

    Posted May 27, 2009 2:34 pm PT

    Jesus I want it bad, just like all the other fans I gotta calm myself down, its only 5 months away

  • Beaver_Slayer

    Posted May 27, 2009 2:21 pm PT

    I'm excited to see what the multiplayer aspect of Bioshock 2 is all about. I already know the single player will melt my face.

  • stickiey

    Posted May 27, 2009 1:28 pm PT

    If anyone wants a good preview of the multiplayer component, check out this months PC Gamer. They have like a 5 page spread on it. It will be partly story driven, as you have your own apartment and such, so I'll probably just play it with friends who will like the story aspects as much as I do.

  • purple_pride99

    Posted May 27, 2009 1:05 pm PT

    Crap....A week before Modern Warfare 2...

    Decisions, decisions....

  • Glokwerk

    Posted May 27, 2009 12:59 pm PT

    I want!!!!!

  • geddy_2112

    Posted May 27, 2009 12:47 pm PT

    Mmmmmm splicer face drilling time!

  • kavadias1981

    Posted May 27, 2009 12:18 pm PT

    It is nice to finally have a release date. There is no need for speculation, this game IS going to be absolutely incredible. I can't wait!

  • Furanko_Kun

    Posted May 27, 2009 12:11 pm PT

    Eww, there's multiplayer in my singleplayer! lol

    Anyway this game is going to ROCK nonetheless ^_^

  • 0678

    Posted May 27, 2009 12:01 pm PT

    yayyyyyy!

  • Vampyre11487

    Posted May 27, 2009 10:51 am PT

    Mmm. Critical and Commercial Undersea Action RPG - can't wait!

  • kingdre

    Posted May 27, 2009 9:43 am PT

    Sweet! I'm sure it'll be worth the wait.

  • nurse_tsunami

    Posted May 27, 2009 9:38 am PT

    Well I am glad that I have a few more months to finish off the first one before starting into the second one This looks great and I expect it will do well.

  • Mcortijo01

    Posted May 27, 2009 9:37 am PT

    Well add Bioshock to the rest of the games I will be playing this fall.

  • arfy2

    Posted May 27, 2009 9:37 am PT

    I don't think the multiplayer is going to be too story driven. I think the multiplayer will just be set before Bioshock so we get to see what Rapture will be like before it goes to hell. It will just be what the maps will look like.

    If I'm wrong and it is story driven then I hope co-op is in there. I haven't even read the preview yet so what do I know...

  • raahsnavj

    Posted May 27, 2009 9:11 am PT

    @Ziloron - I rarely give anyone, especially companies the benefit of the doubt. Call me heartless, but this way I rarely get disappointed. If it doesn't live up to what I really wanted, I'm not shocked. But if it does I get to be very impressed.

    I'm sure I'll pick it up and play it, but I find my Single player experiences get more plays over the decades (important distiction) than my multiplayer stuff... Hopefully the prequel allows multiplayer, but isn't required to play through it.

  • Ziloron

    Posted May 27, 2009 8:59 am PT

    @raahsnavj I agree with you, but Take-Two seems to be really serious about this game. Give them the benefit of the doubt for now, because you can never know until you experience the game.

  • raahsnavj

    Posted May 27, 2009 8:38 am PT

    I still feel they are shorting the franchise by having the prequel part of it multiplayer... I would much rather have both parts as single player, if they are remotely story driven.

    Then tack on some multiplayer (if they are forced by the publisher and lame reviewers that think it needs it) as an after thought anywhere in the storyline. When you get into the multiplayer no one is going to care about the storyline anyhow and instead just start throwing racial slurs around anyhow.

    I don't know, maybe it will be coop and an interesting prequel, but I still feel like forcing it to be multiplayer is shortsided...

  • FarmFreshDX

    Posted May 27, 2009 8:25 am PT

    Multiplayer? How did I miss that it was getting the multiplayer treatment when I've followed every news story here so far?

  • TehXenoz

    Posted May 27, 2009 8:21 am PT

    I'm pre orederin!
    Look frickin' AMAZING, Bioshock is such a hard game to follow, but, I think they're going to do their best.

    I hope hacking becomes a little more useful though, I always felt like my turrets didn't even help.

  • Trogeton

    Posted May 27, 2009 8:21 am PT

    AAAH MY BIRTHDAY

  • negrizz

    Posted May 27, 2009 7:32 am PT

    It looks great!!!

  • Linkman0714

    Posted May 27, 2009 7:30 am PT

    the game looks freaking sweet. Cant wait to buy it.

  • Rottenwood

    Posted May 27, 2009 7:22 am PT

    The original casts a really long shadow; I'd be amazed if this one manages to keep up. Got my fingers crossed.

  • Knucklemouth

    Posted May 27, 2009 6:38 am PT

    Looks great! You can count on my 70 bucks! However I'm afraid this is only going to disappoint anyone who loved the first game as much as I did. Game length? Weopon varieties? Different ammunition? Invent stations? Hacking turrets, cameras? All the other attributes, tonics?
    As far as I'm concerned protecting the little sisters was a pain in the a$$, at the end of the 1st game, but I'll remain optimistic. I'm enjoying my summer so I can wait for this game, and fall.

  • donmega1

    Posted May 27, 2009 6:27 am PT

    the coolest thing about that video was the logo at the end, lol

  • bahamut_au

    Posted May 27, 2009 5:50 am PT

    Oh my god, learn how to write a damn news story. You don't even MENTION what the headline is about until half-way down the page.

    When you have "Bioshock due November 3" as your headline, you shouldn't spend the first half of the story banging on about fiscal reports and other unrelated news items. This is exactly what you've done. Maybe I should just be thankful the headline wasn't "Bioshock 2 shocking gamers November 3" or another of your usual god-awful puns. Google 'inverted pyramid' and get a clue, for christ's sake.

  • silentsniper359

    Posted May 27, 2009 5:45 am PT

    nov 3rd thats my birthday but im not buying bioshock 2.....im going now

  • bandit7319

    Posted May 27, 2009 4:59 am PT

    OMG! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/seasteading-sea-buildings-pictures/index.html

  • The_Godfather_

    Posted May 27, 2009 4:46 am PT

    I hope 2K Games won't dissapoint us.

  • P-P-Pagey

    Posted May 27, 2009 4:34 am PT

    Altair, i'm sorry to tell you this, but you have sweet FA taste im games. Bioshcok is a fine piece of gaming brilliance, even if your not into it its a game you still appreciate.

  • hassy94

    Posted May 27, 2009 3:21 am PT

    Altair, the fact you rated Halo 3 a 9.5/10 tells me I shouldn't listen to you...

  • racerch89

    Posted May 27, 2009 2:58 am PT

    @ALTAIR360
    wow u should be shot for saying such a thing ALTAIR360. Bioshock is one of the best shooters every made. the story is amazing. that what u need to focus on. i guess ur just to stupid to play a complex story game.

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    ALTAIR360

    Posted May 27, 2009 2:31 am PT (hide)

    after Dead Space, bioshock was the worse game i have played on the 360.
    i dont get this game,whats so special about it ??

  • Untouchable_Dra

    Posted May 27, 2009 2:20 am PT

    PRE-ORDER NAO!!!

  • webdoom

    Posted May 27, 2009 2:05 am PT

    off to pre-order

  • whizeguy

    Posted May 27, 2009 2:04 am PT

    Drool...

    My most wanted game...

    Back to rapture now, for my 8th or 9th play through ...

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