BioShock 2 to grace the PS3?

By Robert Purchese Published 8 April, 2008

2K Marin job adverts suggest so.

2K Marin may be developing BioShock 2 for PlayStation 3 as well as PC and Xbox 360.

Job postings on the website call for those familiar to the system, with the level designer position specifically requiring PlayStation 3 experience.

Elsewhere the ad mentions both PS3 and Wii.

Unfortunately 2K Games was unavailable for comment.

BioShock 2 was confirmed in March, with fresh Californian studio 2K Marin set to create it under the watchful eye of Ken Levine who still looks like Luke Wilson.

While no platforms were announced most assumed PC and 360 versions would be a safe bet, given that the original game appeared on them.

BioShock 2 is down for release sometime between August and October next year. There are no details on the story as yet, but we're hoping for motorbikes and monkeys.

What are you hoping for, Eurogamer reader?

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Comments (39) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Olemak #1 4 years ago

    I got the impression that the game was set in the sixties, so I'd like to see some mods on vespa scooters.

  • apan #2 4 years ago

    Less audio tapes and more variation.

  • Darren #3 4 years ago

    BioShock was awesome IMO and if the sequel is as good or better then it deserves a wider audience so I'd hope that it is coming to the PS3 as well.

  • captainrentboy #4 4 years ago

    More enemy variation, and a far more climatic end to it al pleasel.
    Working at that game for 8 hrs+ just to fight the easiest boss in the world, followed by a 3 second cutscene was not fulfilling.

  • ParanoidZombie #5 4 years ago

    I just want to say that Bioshock is one of my favorite games ever, I'm on my 3rd playthrough, going for the "no vita chambers" achievement, and I'm having great fun, I love it, can't wait for bioshock 2.

  • menage #6 4 years ago

    Wii??

  • Xerx3s #7 4 years ago

    Bioshock 2 wii - stop motion animation!

  • LeD #8 4 years ago

    Bioshock is a good game, nothing more. A 7/10 by my standards. I don't care much about a sequel, not more that I care for a sequel to say, Prey.

  • Mindstorm #9 4 years ago

    @Led
    er... this is going to go down as blasphemy, but I have enjoyed Prey more than Bioshock.

  • Skooch #10 4 years ago

    Bioshock was a PROPER game. It did almost everything right and it all blended together beautifully. I played through it again recently and what struck me was how you could play the same game in a totally different way. I used different plasmids and experimented with different weapons combos and the game still hung together great. In terms of characters, storyline, length, environment and technical prowess it was awesome.

    The more gamers that get this experience the better.

    /wonders if they will add MP.

  • konstantinos #11 4 years ago

    brilliant...!
    but it would be really great if PS3 owners were treated to a Bioshock "special edition" (or something) for missing out on the first one, you know...?
    playing Condemned 2 (great game, btw) makes me feel I've lost half the party...

    cheers...
    Edited by 1 at 09/04/08 @ 07:58

  • Peew971 #12 4 years ago

    If EA succeeds in buying Take-Two, Bioshock 2 may as well grace the Wii, DS, PS2, PSP, N-Gage... :)

  • bitesize #13 4 years ago


    hey, i've got a good idea, why don't we have another thread where we can argue about bioshock! awesome!

    seriously, can't we all agree to disagree - it's obviously a bit of a marmite game, some love it, some don't. no need to argue about it endlessly...

  • Les #14 4 years ago

    "Bioshock was a PROPER game. It did almost everything right and it all blended together beautifully."

    I think it's a very acquired taste. The demo really put me off. Mechanics were nothing special (woo, I'm shooting something with my hand instead of a gun), the engine is terrible (rarely seen such a sterile and odd lighted gameworld. Only thing that comes close is the awful Stranglehold), animations were poor and the art direction did nothing for me. I did like the audio but that's about it. Playing Half-Life (the first, so a 10 year old game) right after reminded me of how FPSs should be done.

  • MrXBob #15 4 years ago

    I've had to post this on like 6 websites today, and its annoying how I'm the only one that seems to have actually READ the job listing.

    It's simply a generic job listing, detailing the same kind of experience that EVERY company details in their job postings. The word Bioshock is not mentioned once, in fact no games are. And it simply mentions PS3 in the same breath as Wii and 360 because they are all 'Next generation consoles'.

    This is no reason to start rumours about Bioshock 2 appearing on PS3 or Wii. Please get ahold of yourselves fanboys and haters.

  • glaeken #16 4 years ago

    @captainrentboy how on earth could you complete the game in 8 hours? You would have had to run through every level as fast as possible to get even close to that. I seem to remember it took me around 15 hours to finish it.

  • Lukus #17 4 years ago

    I want more fetching stuff tasks. Almost typed felching then.

  • kangarootoo #18 4 years ago

    " Love. It is a primal, uncultured energy, shaping you in ways that reason can’t touch."

    Who the hell wrote these ads? I mean, I know they are a bit tongue in cheek, but even so.

    "You are able to hold, fixed in your mind, the paradox of their simultaneous existence as both systems of mathematical purity and as living, breathing emotional entities. This either makes you a genius, or insane, or both. Such distinctions are irrelevant - you're down to earth like that."

    I'm all for comedy, but methinks someone holds their comic writing abilities is unrealistically high regard.

    Its one step away from "You don't have to be mad to work here... but it helps" Ahahahahaha, that cuts me up every time.... not really.


    Oh an Bioshock is shit, I mean awesome, I mean Zzzzzzz.

  • kangarootoo #19 4 years ago

    "I've had to post this on like 6 websites today, and its annoying how I'm the only one that seems to have actually READ the job listing."

    "had to"? Really?

  • bodypopper #20 4 years ago

    Hopefully there will be an ending that doesn't feel like it was half inched from House of the Dead

  • MrXBob #21 4 years ago

    @kangarootoo: Of course I didnt HAVE to - but personally I'm rather sick of the absolute disregard for facts, emphasis put onto sensationalised headlines, rumours that have no backing and just downright bad journalism.

    I mean it's these self same people that whine about all the rubbish mainstream articles (sex in mass effect etc), yet they don't mind when they do it themselves? No point having double standards, especially when it just makes you look like a fool.
    Edited by 2 at 08/04/08 @ 14:18

  • InsoFox #22 4 years ago

    "the engine is terrible (rarely seen such a sterile and odd lighted gameworld.)"

    Uh... right.

    Sterile...

    Okay...

    *backs away slowly*

  • SeesThroughAll #23 4 years ago

    Doubt it's for Bioshock 2. Could be for another, announced PS3 game.

  • Dappa #24 4 years ago

    @Les

    Wow you must be blind and slightly retarded. Not to too rude but how can you ........... WHAT i just checked your profile you don't even own a 360 or have this game you FUCKING GIMP. OMG are you just hating good 360 games because your a PS WHino and before you start i have both and love both.

    Don't comment on games you haven't even played child.

  • Les #25 4 years ago

    "Don't comment on games you haven't even played child."

    The game is also out on PC, muppet...

  • Dappa #26 4 years ago

    Agreed apologies,

    However you still don't own it and have no PC games in your collection. Judging by your comment you have only played or seen the demo? hardly good grounds to rubbish a game.

    Anyway regardless of your personal tastes, to slate a games lighting and artistic direction considering some of the most influential and well respected people in the industry have applauded it really holds no weight. Furthermore yeah the game play mechanics aren't revolutionary but i can still do more with them than any other next gen shooter out at the moment.

    I am just still confused why you are rubbishing a blatantly very good game. You may not like its style or environments but that does not make it a bad game.

  • Apologie #27 4 years ago

    Like we care... at least i don't, Ps3 have too many good shooter's coming out "and some already released" to care about another corridor shooter "probably witought multiplayer", just to mention a few... Project Origin, Battelfield: Bad Company, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Haze, Far Cry 2, UT3, COD 4 etc... i never liked Bioshok that much, in my opinion, it's a Hugely Overrated Game, like Halo. Now, bring MEtal GEar 4 already, i can't wait.

  • Les #28 4 years ago

    "However you still don't own it and have no PC games in your collection. Judging by your comment you have only played or seen the demo? hardly good grounds to rubbish a game."

    No, I don't exactly keep that list up to date. There are probably no GBA, DS, GC or PSP games on it either. TBH was bored once and started but then failed to see the point.

    I have only played the demo so I'm rubbishing the demo. That was nothing special and didn't entice me to get the full game (rather it put me off from my intention on picking it up once it really hit the bargain bins). I played both HL and HL2 directly afterwards to see if my expectations were too high (after all the Bioshock hype) but I just wasn't impressed. Not by the mechanics, not by the engine or graphics. I wasn't intreagued by the beginning of the story either.

    I can understand other people might enjoy it, it's just not a gam for me. And I expect a lot of people would agree. It's an acquired taste, like I said initially.

  • Jheronimus #29 4 years ago

    Heck, the PS3-fanbois are back! Great!

    Let's wait until it comes uit for PS3 (which I hope for all sane PS3-owning gamers) and then listen to them how it performs much better on the PS3 than on Xbox360.

  • Xerx3s #30 4 years ago

    "Playing Half-Life (the first, so a 10 year old game) right after reminded me of how FPSs should be done."

    Funny, I replayed it a while back as well and what struck me was how outdated and dull the gameplay/leveldesign was compared to what modern shooters have to offer. Especially the stuff released in the last year. Imo, many people really have a pair of rose-tinted glasses on when it comes to HL. It was a revolution in it's time but since then it has been bettered many times over.

    Horses for courses.

  • Dappa #31 4 years ago

    OK we beg to differ but.

    acquired taste has nothing to do with mechanics and engine use? The physics system works perfectly especially when you bring in telekinesis (like gravity gun) and element factors making it 5 times more involving than HL2, in what things you can experiment with. I really like the HL series and i have replayed every installment at least once so i understand your love of them.

    Anyway if you don't like the engine then you don't like an updated version of Unreal 3 ahem which everybody knows is well excellent.

    Look all im saying is yes you may not like it, you may lie awake at night screaming at the thought of playing it but as a piece of software and what it does etc it is a good game. Respect is due to what Bioshock is.

  • penhalion #32 4 years ago

    The hero (namely you!) ends peacefully so I'm not sure what would be in Bioshock 2. Why not just make a system shock 3 instead. I'd much rather go toe to toe with Shodan again.

    "H H H Hacker...How can you hope to beat a perfect...immortal....machine"

    I always remember hearing that and thinking "Bring it! And you'll find out". I don't remember much at all of note from Bioshock, even though it was a great game. It just had too many "Why would I do that" moments in it. The end boss battle was so out of character with the rest of the game as to be laughable As in why (if you can create an uber being from ADAM) didn't everyone do what the end boss did and simply become supermen? Clearly the machine to do so always existed as the city leader was in control of it

  • MattyD #33 4 years ago

    I can't wait for the Wii version. "New to Nintendo Wii, a little-girl-battering sim the whole family can enjoy! ^_^" or something to that effect. Battering little kids over the head with a big-ass wrench is just asking for media controversy.

  • mkreku #34 4 years ago

    More open world, more System Shock 2 influences, less broken promises. That's what I hope for.

  • Grayvern #35 4 years ago

    The End battle of Bioshock was rubbish the concept was not, I suspect that it was meant to be an Irony of some sorts the symbolic similarity to the statues everywhere and the Idea of the self made man.

    In terms of story progression I'd rather it didn't, it was pretty self contained. However I would like to see the tale of an inhabitant trying to escape etc, which seems the only sensible direction, any 'new' Ryan associate/ new rapture based game or people trying to repopulate rapture would be like really bad fan fic.

    Especially considering that the city was on its last legs anyway, and you have to consider that escape would almost be impossible anyway, the bathyspheres were DNA locked and Fontaine who ruled the black market wouldn't have wanted competition for the prize of Adam so i doubt he would have let anyone leave by his secret smuggling routes anyway.
    Edited by 2 at 09/04/08 @ 00:43

  • kangarootoo #36 4 years ago

    @MrXBob

    I know, I was just picking on you. Thanks for replying in a relaxed manner (except for the bit where you imply I am a fool, but I'll let that slide).

  • kangarootoo #37 4 years ago

    I've finally done it. I've ignored Apologie. Not out of malice by any means. Just because his posts are now becoming soooo repetative they just take needless seconds out of my life that I can enver get back. Its not even worth responding to anymore.

    ..... suddenly I realise, perhaps I was the last person left not ignoring him already. I feel like Will Smith all of a sudden. Maybe this is the bit with the grenade.

    /boom

  • Widge #38 4 years ago

    What if its the alternate ending and you go on living?

    OH MY WORD

  • davisorle #39 3 years ago

    They asking for experienced on PS3 devs simply cause they have currently issues with transferring it already the first one to the PS3 correctly... So what's so weird about it?