Big Sisters confirmed in BioShock 2

By thorsen-ink, GameSpotPosted Mar 10, 2009 4:46 pm PT

Last week, 2K Games soft-launched a teaser site for BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams, the follow-up to the 2007 award-winning underwater adventure BioShock. As with most teaser sites, Somethinginthesea.com aims to generate hype through mystery by offering only a few clues about the game. In this case,...

Last week, 2K Games soft-launched a teaser site for BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams, the follow-up to the 2007 award-winning underwater adventure BioShock. As with most teaser sites, Somethinginthesea.com aims to generate hype through mystery by offering only a few clues about the game. In this case, the site shows a map of the Atlantic Ocean ringed by a series of newspaper clippings detailing the disappearances of young girls in seaside towns.

Invariably, said vanishing is accompanied by red lights in the ocean and sightings of strange figures emerging from the surf wearing "shod" feet and "miner's helmets." Although the lights and helmet look like the calling cards of the first BioShock's lumbering Big Daddies, eyewitness accounts of "thin" figures with feet smaller than a human male's appear to be contradictory. As a result, theories about "Big Sisters" and "Little Daddies" began to bubble up--rumors that 2K Games has steadfastly declined to comment on. "Don't believe everything you read," one rep told GameSpot.

Next month, though, the public will be able to read about 2K Marin-developed BioShock 2 in Game Informer. The Minnesota-based monthly magazine, which is owned by game retailer GameStop, has posted a scan of its April issue's cover online, which indeed depicts a Big Sister. The new creature is shown wearing a helmet not unlike that of the Big Daddies, with sleeker diving gear fitted to its long limbs and a long-barreled weapon on its left arm. Inside a cage on the Big Sister's back is a Little Sister that looks several years older than the ones in the first BioShock. No "Little Daddies" are mentioned.

214 Comments

  • skip2mylouuu

    Posted Apr 21, 2009 4:26 pm PT

    Bioshock 2.. all day..

  • d3emondav3

    Posted Apr 3, 2009 6:39 pm PT

    I just want to shove my drill into that annoying Sander Cohen. but he's dead, so I'll never get the chance. Evil twin?

  • egodi94

    Posted Apr 2, 2009 7:07 pm PT

    i meant instead of rescuing them you can adopt them, you can still harvest them.

  • egodi94

    Posted Apr 2, 2009 6:26 pm PT

    also jeremiah237 is right the big sister is getting girls to turn them into what she was because raptures balance is destroyed because in the first game you saved/harvested most of them so there was no one to get adam. And instead of harvesting little sisters you can adopt them because they trust you. Also the plasmid upgrades are different in this game i wont say what but its much better.

  • egodi94

    Posted Apr 2, 2009 6:21 pm PT

    I have game informer magazine and it says that bioshock 2 will have multiplayer online but right now they want to make single player their main priority. I don't know if its coop or matches against each other.

  • Panxhaga

    Posted Mar 30, 2009 4:48 pm PT

    Okay, the first game was in 1960 so this one is in 1970. And secondly the only true ending of Bioshock is the good one where you save all the little sisters. But weapons and plasmids at the same time will be cool

  • wilsham1

    Posted Mar 30, 2009 4:16 pm PT

    Oh sweet. can't wait. Anyone know if there will be multiplayer? Big Daddy deathmatch??

  • vexum

    Posted Mar 30, 2009 1:29 pm PT

    true, jeremiah, the big sister is kidnapping the girls and turning them into little sisters. the new thing is that you --as a big daddy, can see yourself in mirrors, see your both hands (plasmids and drill or gun), and when look down you can see your feet.
    the early missions will have only two options: harvest/adopt. later on, another option (rescue) will be available --this means a visit to dr. tenenbaum hideout.

  • jeremiah237

    Posted Mar 24, 2009 6:28 pm PT

    @vexum
    this is just a theory....but maybe (judging by the website) the "big sister" is stealing the the little girls, to turn them into little sisters.....iono just a thought

  • CrimsonKnight52

    Posted Mar 24, 2009 2:16 am PT

    ... I loved BioShock.. I'm getting a bit nervous about this sequel. Ken Levine isn't involved and everything is beginning to seem extremely gimmicky.

  • vexum

    Posted Mar 22, 2009 2:47 pm PT

    that's the big sister on the cover not the big daddy.

  • Mr_Versipellis

    Posted Mar 22, 2009 11:27 am PT

    COOL!
    BTW, at first I thought his backpack was his head - it looked a bit like that assassin droid off Star Wars (IG-8. Imagine a big daddy with a head like that... Cool!

  • vexum

    Posted Mar 22, 2009 4:31 am PT

    dr. tenenbaum believes it's her fault that the big sister has turned into a monster. is it because she discovered the adam and used the little girls in the adam production process? or did she call this particular big sister back to rapture the same way fontaine called jack?

  • vexum

    Posted Mar 22, 2009 4:12 am PT

    negative. you're the first big daddy ever made in rapture --a prototype big daddy. different with the ability to use plasmids. jack story ends with the original bioshock.

    question, if you harvested all the little sisters in the original bioshock, how would a little sister leave rapture and come back? something smells fishy _.

  • Akarashi666

    Posted Mar 21, 2009 7:21 pm PT

    nvm my 1st comment i do believe you are still the guy from the 1st bioshock after he got turnd into a big daddy cause if you look at the new cover of that one magazine it says Big sister awaits YOUR RETURN

  • mazman3434

    Posted Mar 21, 2009 2:14 pm PT

    that dood looks bad ass

  • Akarashi666

    Posted Mar 21, 2009 9:39 am PT

    EVERYONE this game is set 10 yrs b4 bioshock one and it is confirmed and yes u do play as the 1st big daddy and to that nate guy u r a tard read the name BIG DADDIES.... THEY ARE MALE CAUSE DADS ARE MALES!

  • TheCatastropher

    Posted Mar 20, 2009 2:44 pm PT

    CAN'T......WAIT.......4......BIOSHOCK........2!!!!!!!!!

  • Rorschach456

    Posted Mar 19, 2009 4:45 pm PT

    OK. for the idiots who think its a prequel...

    The game is 10 years after the first bioshock. You play as the first ever big daddy. Big Sister rules rapture and if you kill other big daddies she comes after you. Big Sister is a little sister you saved in the first one who returned to rapture and messed herself up.

  • redemptiom

    Posted Mar 18, 2009 11:59 am PT

    2 things...

    The doll she is holding is a representation of the first prototype Big Daddy (who you play as in the game).

    And the game is placed 10 years after the first game.

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