BioShock 2 DLC this Thursday

By Robert Purchese Published 8 March, 2010

Sinclair Solutions expands multiplayer.

2K Games will release the first batch of BioShock 2 DLC on Thursday.

Dubbed The Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack, this will be available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

The emphasis is on multiplayer, where ranks will be boosted to 50, two new characters added, 20 extra trials introduced, a third weapon upgrade unlocked and five more masks uncovered.

Sinclair Solutions costs 400 Microsoft Points (£3.40/€4.65) on PC/360, and $4.99 on PS3.

There's more DLC to come in the following weeks, although nothing has been set in stone.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Eraysor #1 2 years ago

    /realises he hasn't even tried multiplayer yet

  • Artemus #2 2 years ago

    Unnecessary sequel with unnecessary multiplayer.

  • Ryboy #3 2 years ago

    I have enjoyed Bioshock 2 so far, but I haven't been addicted to it like I was with the first game.

    Have barely touched the multiplayer. Maybe I'm missing out?

  • Murton #4 2 years ago

    Splitting the online playerbase into "haves" and "havenots" is universally stupid, yet publishers still keep doing it.

    Haven't bothered to pick this up yet, couldn't really get into the first one. From a lot of the posts I've read I'm not missing out on much though.

  • lordofthedunce #5 2 years ago

    Unnecessary sequel with unnecessary multiplayer.

    of course, yeah, best way to run a business is not capitalise on any success you have. That is a good plan.

  • AliRay #6 2 years ago

    Completed the story mode, thoroughly enjoyed it and traded it in for Bad Company 2.

    DLCFail :)

  • sneetch #7 2 years ago

    @Artemus
    Unnecessary sequel with unnecessary multiplayer.

    Is any game (sequel or otherwise) necessary?

    Personally I enjoyed the bit I played and I'll go back for more as soon as I finish Bad Company 2 single-player. Haven't played the multi-player and I doubt I will.

  • bodypopper #8 2 years ago

    Played the multiplayer for an hour, realised it's just a clone of other games with plasmids on top. Moved on.

  • menage #9 2 years ago

    Like any mp is terribly original nowadays. I actually enjoyed it, if I could find players, and when it didnt freeze up (IT STILL DOES). So I quit.

    Shame, I liked it.

  • kinky_mong #10 2 years ago

    The multiplayer is pretty enjoyable, I reached the Rank threshold this weekend so it's lost that XP gaining element though.

  • Shrike #11 2 years ago

    Been meaning to go back to it but Bad Company 2 has had my MP attention lately. This DLC isn't exactly enticing.

  • TruWari3r #12 2 years ago

    Thoroughly enjoyed the singleplayer, the multiplayer notsomuch. Will probably buy the singleplayer dlc on first opportunity but this I'll pass.

  • creepylizard #13 2 years ago

    Liked playing through the single player story. Never tried the multiplayer and probably never will

  • Artemus #14 2 years ago

    @sneetch

    No but some games can better justify a sequel more than others. BioShock isn't one of them. It didn't need a sequel, especially not one as uninspired as BioShock 2. It's just a retread of the first game that adds very little to the universe.

  • sneetch #15 2 years ago

    @Artemus

    Ah, I see what you mean. It was very much a self-enclosed story without really anything left unsaid.

    Not even a:

    "The end"
    "The end."
    "The end.."
    "The end..."
    "The end...?"

  • lordofthedunce #16 2 years ago

    @ Artemus

    Yeah, sorry, what we need is more Fifa, PES, NFS and CoD games and not games with an interesting game world, great characters and involving plot.

    Edit: Sorry, my sarcasm is a bit over the top.

    I simply think there are far more worthy candidates to ban from having sequels than Bioshock. Without sequels to quality titles such as these we really would be left with a few quality releases amongst the big-brand, big budget crap being pumped out year on year.
    Edited by 2 at 08/03/10 @ 16:48

  • Mayhem64 #17 2 years ago

    No new achievements? Pass probably for the moment, enjoyable as it is in general, only playing the multiplayer to get to level 40 and the penultimate cheevo I need...

  • muscleblade #18 2 years ago

    I regret buying BS2. The singleplayer was boring and the multiplayer was fun for a couple of hours. It takes 15-20 hours to get to level 40. Not many people are level 40 so this wont sell well. ME2 was a great sequel BS2 was not.

  • Artemus #19 2 years ago

    @lordofthedunce

    Look, given the choice I'd much rather a sequel to BioShock than FIFA, NFS et al as well, but I think that BioShock 2 didn't do the original justice. The first game was a great with interesting new world and very different environment to play around in, but the story, once it was over really had nowhere left to go. The sequel just lost all of the impact because the whole time I felt, 'been there done that'.

  • Sunyavadin #20 2 years ago

    Really liked the multiplayer, and hope more companies will consider tying the multiplayer progression into their games' storyline in future.
    The only thing I don't like is how not a single friend of mine on a bthomehub 2.0 router is able to play the multiplayer at all, no matter what we try with port forwarding.

    Good thing I'm on Virgin, really. Bioshock 2 has thoroughly decent multiplayer, and is one of the only ones besides Halo, Gears and Frontlines to hold my attention.

  • Gunzberg #21 2 years ago

    I loved the multiplayer initially but then playing on PC every server I went to was a lag fest after a while so I quit ;(

  • menage #22 2 years ago

    Oh sod it. BS2 was a pretty good sequel to a stellar game. No it wasn't in the same league, but there aren't many games in that league at all. I never expected it to top it, but I had a great time nonetheless and gameplay wise (the actual combat) it crapped all over 1.

    If this is crap than 90% of the games out there are.
    Edited by 1 at 09/03/10 @ 08:45

  • lordofthedunce #23 2 years ago

    @Artemus
    Initially you said the game didn't need a sequel, I'm saying it's ok to have one in this instance.

    Later you said some games better justify a sequel than others. So, we actually agree on that.

    @EarlBassett
    It's an imaginative game within an interesting world, so I think despite the cost behind it, it probably isn't considered as mainstream as some of the other examples I gave. It's easy with hindsight to say a sequel shouldn't have been made.