BioShock Challenge Rooms priced

By Robert Purchese Published 3 November, 2008

One PS3 package for six quid.

2K Games has said that the downloadable Challenge Rooms for BioShock PS3 will cost GBP 6.29.

There are three of these rooms, remember, but they will arrive as a single pack on 20th November on the PlayStation Store.

The Challenge Rooms, exclusive to PS3, offer plenty of unseen content and tasks to accomplish. They add up to well over an hour of gameplay on the first run-through, and are built to be replayable.

Tasks are tough and based on using limited resources to achieve a goal, such as rescuing a Little Sister on a Ferris Wheel, taking down a Big Daddy, or besting a staggered arena-style onslaught of Rapture baddies.

Check back tomorrow for our hands-on impressions of the Challenge Rooms.

Alternatively, catch up with our BioShock PS3 review to find out how it shapes up.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (39) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • jonsaan #1 3 years ago

    Bioshock is on my xmas list so no doubt I'll be up for this after Xmas:)

  • el_pollo_diablo #2 3 years ago

    Sounds like a bit of a skank to me.

  • kangarootoo #3 3 years ago

    Hard to make a call based on a loose description. 1 hour of gameplay for £6 doesn't sound that great on the face of it, so it all comes down to the replay value I guess.

    Any chance of a tiny miniature baby review EG staff?

  • Monkey_Puncher #4 3 years ago

    Great game, but that extra content sounds like a load of shit to me. What made Bioshock was the atmosphere, setting and story, this content sounds like it has none of those things. Oh and £6? What a ripoff! The content should have been in the game in the first place for PS3 owners to make up for them having to wait a year to play it.

  • #5 3 years ago

    they can beat the DLC up their mother`s assholes for that price.

  • HolyJebus #6 3 years ago

    I too think this seems like far too much to pay for whats on offer.

    And I agree that PS3 owners seem to be getting the shaft here. They should have been thrown in with the PS3 version of the full game and then charged for on the 360.

  • phatb0y #7 3 years ago

    Micropaymentslol and all that, but that sounds like a textbook nickel and dime shafting.

    The PS3 waited a year for an inferior version. I think that warrants these scraps from the table being given away for free.

  • DFawkes #8 3 years ago

    FUCK. OFF.

    I was always under the impression we were paying new price for a year old game because these were on the disc. Then it was made clear they're DLC, but of course after the wait they could make us pay for them.
    Of course they're also a business, so a token fee wouldn't be out of the question. But £6.29? More than Super Stardust HD? More than any PSone game? More than the majority of full PSN games?

    I'll repeat my first sentiments - FUCK OFF.

  • Les #9 3 years ago

    I wouldn't bother with the game at any price but this seems like the new horse armour. What a bunch of greedy bastards. First taking money to postpone the release of the game on PS3 for a full year, then releasing the old game at full price and then, to add insult to injury, charging a ridiculous amount for some 'exclusive' DLC.

  • Feanor #10 3 years ago

    Fucking ridiculous.

  • ry2008 #11 3 years ago

    heddbogg you have been ripped off paying 40 for the game. i paid 28

  • Andee #12 3 years ago

    I thought the original idea was that the challenge mode was supposed to be included for free.

    I was always planning to get the PS3 version of Bioshock, but this philosophy of deliberatly holding back content for the purposes of paid dlc means they've lost a sale. I'll just pick up the PC or 360 version instead for about half the price.

  • killyourtv #13 3 years ago

    no chance, rip off

  • #14 3 years ago

    Its probably on the disc maybe unlocked by a measly 100kb download aka Hot shot DLC.

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #15 3 years ago

    This should have been included gratis, given that the dev costs on this version are less and they are still charging full whack. If they want the extra cash charge the 360 owners for the extras and give it to PS3 owners for free as part of the full price tag.

    Oh and Les, do you have to put a fanboy slant on even PS3 posts? You know for sure that MS paid to keep this off PS3 for a year?

  • smelly #16 3 years ago

    I dont get why gamers moan about 6 quid for 1 hours of content.. But dont moan about paying 50 quid for 8 hours of content (fable 2/bioshock/etc)?

    I know i'm over exagerating prices/time scales a tad.. but my point stands..


  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #17 3 years ago

    "I know i'm over exagerating prices/time scales a tad.. but my point stands.. "

    LOL. Obviously not.

  • mkreku #18 3 years ago

    A bit pricey, isn't it?

  • michaelius #19 3 years ago

    Sounds like first class ripoff.

    Grand total of 1 hour of gameplay for "only" 6,50 pounds is close to price of good arcade titles like SSHD

  • HolyJebus #20 3 years ago

    "I dont get why gamers moan about 6 quid for 1 hours of content.. But dont moan about paying 50 quid for 8 hours of content (fable 2/bioshock/etc)?"

    Because the extra content costs far less then, lets say 1/7 of the full game, to develop because it uses almost everything that was developed for the original game.

  • shotgun44 #21 3 years ago

    I was under the impression this was gonna be free. How naive of me :/

  • makeamazing #22 3 years ago

    I think its bad to have a situation where everyone thought it was going to be free and now they are charging for it... bad show. Oh i didnt think PS3 bioshock was full price, wasnt it £29.99 thats not a full price PS3 game price... usually its £34 ish.... or am i wrong (havent checked the prices, just what i understood the price to be and thats what its on play).

    Still releasing this DLC so close to release and when it was talked about as being part of the release is just very poor of them.

  • SPKRFCKR #23 3 years ago

    So far, not a single commenter has indicated that they will be paying for this DLC. Too right - does anyone think if we don't show the demand for this that 2k will lower the price?

  • HolyJebus #24 3 years ago

    "does anyone think if we don't show the demand for this that 2k will lower the price?"

    I think if it doesn't sell well they will assume there just wasn't a demand for it and may not create anymore, which may be an incorrect assumption. If they lower the price at a later date I still wouldn't expect it to sell too well as they'll have missed their marketing opportunity. I think this may be a case were they'll make less money in the long run by being greedy initially.

    Of course this is all guess work on my behalf but that's my 2 cents.

  • smelly #25 3 years ago

    "Because the extra content costs far less then, lets say 1/7 of the full game, to develop because it uses almost everything that was developed for the original game."


    Since when have gamers cared about how much something cost to develop?

  • SPKRFCKR #26 3 years ago

    @ HolyJebus

    thanks for your 2 cents. The thing that is really pissing me off about this DLC issue, is the "Downloaded Content" section in Bioshock's main menu. This shows me that 2K were out to squeeze us ps3 customers for every penny we have. I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrows review.

  • Steroyd #27 3 years ago

    @DaemonB

    NO!

    Hot shots DLC is done differently, you download the courses/characters via the latest patch and unlock them with a 100kb key in the PSN store, that's why patches take so long to download and that's how people who havent bought the DLC can see and hear the new characters in matchplay/stroke matches.

  • 3william56 #28 3 years ago

    Pfft - it's still a lot cheaper per hour than a movie or pint.
    Question is, is it any good?

  • Les #29 3 years ago

    "Oh and Les, do you have to put a fanboy slant on even PS3 posts? You know for sure that MS paid to keep this off PS3 for a year?"

    Sorry, don't see what is fanboyish about that, says more about you than me TBH.

  • bad09 #30 3 years ago

    Les isn't a fanboy, he just can't stand Bioshock!

    Gotta give it another go Les it really is a good game that draws you in.

    As for the challenge rooms, I thought that was a free extra. A bit naughty that. If it were me I wouldn't bother out of spite, still buy the game itself PS3 owners it's worth it just ask Les!

  • Xerx3s #31 3 years ago

    "Les isn't a fanboy, he just can't stand Bioshock!"

    He can't stand any game that isn't on his wii it seems. Kinda voids the first part of your argument.

  • Les #32 3 years ago

    "Gotta give it another go Les it really is a good game that draws you in."

    I have given the PS3 demo a go (had played the PC demo already) and it does absolutely nothing for me, except for the audio. It's a clumsy FPS with a setting that I don't care about. I'd rather re-play HL2 or Resistance if I have to play a shooter. But that's just my opinion.

  • Frandroid #33 3 years ago

    Maybe it's just me, but I'm fed up with people crying "The DLC was finished at the same time as the game, it should have been included for free!"
    I'm not arguing for or against the price of the game or DLC, but the developers/publishers are entitled to charge what they feel is justified for their products, regardless of when they were created. Equally, you have the right not to buy what they produce if you feel it is too expensive.

  • FrankCannon #34 3 years ago

    All the PS3 downloadable content is expensive to make up for the fact that PSN is "free".

  • FrankCannon #35 3 years ago

    Bioshock XBOX 360 £9.99 Gamestation

  • FrankCannon #36 3 years ago

    Fable 2 is £35

  • makeamazing #37 3 years ago

    I dont think its that Frandroid, everything i read suggested that the extra stuff was going to be included with the PS3 version CD for Free.

  • daz_john_smith #38 3 years ago

    I was under the impression that this stuff would be free since Bioshock was released on 360 and PC 12 months ago and this was added content to make the game more appealing

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