Zelnick hints at BioShock sequel News
PC Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
2K Games bigwig Strauss Zelnick has said that the two-year release cycle employed for the Grand Theft Auto series could be used for future BioShock titles, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
His comments were made in a recent chit-chat with investors, where he boasted about the 1.5 million sales of the title so far, before suggesting it could become "one of the fastest-selling games in history".
Kriss Akabusi and Cheryl Baker were also on hand to award the game with a record for producing the most sought-after demo on Xbox Live so far - over one million
"We are really pleased that Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace has managed to attract a record number of gamers to its site to download and check out BioShock," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K Games.
BioShock has also become the this year's highest-ranked game across all console platforms on Metacritic.com.
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His comments were made in a recent chit-chat with investors, where he boasted about the 1.5 million sales of the title so far, before suggesting it could become "one of the fastest-selling games in history".
1.5 million is by far not the fastest selling game ever. Doesn't that depend on how long it took to sell 1.5 million? |
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thepiedpiper
11/09/07 @ 10:43
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It's a good game. No, it's a great game but -without being all spoilery- where would a sequel take it? There's not much more they can do with it really story wise...can they?
Does that mean we're looking at prequel territory? |
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SPOILER ALERT(ISH) ........
Of course they could do a sequel. Who says you have to play the lead character from BioShock 1? And from the looks of it, I don't think we explored 10% of Rapture. More Plasmids, more brilliant BioShock, please, however long perfection may take.
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quantumsheep
11/09/07 @ 10:59
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"Would you kindly pop over to our BioShock review to find out why?"
I like! |
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Hank Scorpio
11/09/07 @ 11:01
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I'm sorry, it seems everyone has missed out the most spectacular part of this story - "Kriss Akabusi and Cheryl Baker" ... I mean WTF?!? Did they arrive in a 1983 silver DeLorean?
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the_dudefather
11/09/07 @ 11:16
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they should make sequelshock, based in a dystopian society where the games market is oversaturated by sequels. you play as a games programmer on his first day, but a sudden accident causes everyone else to become obsessed with topping last years sales figures. ;)
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The Bodybuilder
11/09/07 @ 11:22
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>"1.5 million is by far not the fastest selling game ever."
There is a difference between "the" and "one of the", y'know. |
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People seem to be forgetting that Ken Levine himself has said that BioShock is essentially a self contained story and that they are more interested in expanding some of the ideas they have explored in BioShock, in a different game, not a simple sequel.
And I personally would prefer BioShock to remain a one off hit, rather than the next Halo franchise. |
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captainrentboy
11/09/07 @ 11:50
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Finished the game over the weekend (I only get the odd hour game playing time here and there) and I loved pretty much all of it, the end cutscene was slightly dissapointing and short (I got the goody two shoes one) but apart from that it was a great lil game, definitely one of the most immersive I've played for a long time.
Like a few have said, I can't really see a sequel working as most of the story's loose ends are tied by the end, but I'm sure there's a grand prequel in there somewhere. |
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superted1974
11/09/07 @ 11:54
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Ok so it is a good game
I think they would have sold more if the control system was better. Imagine if you could run by tilting the pad forward or jump by shaking it left and right and then waving the pad above your head. |
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Firstly, I have really enjoyed BioShock - the environment more than the gameplay.
Stability issues aside, the weapons/control system could do with a little work, as could general difficulty and resource quantity. Aside from that, I'd love to see stories expanding on Rapture's past and future. It would be amazing to have a Half-Life 1 style game where you enter Rapture before the event(s) and have to survive through it. Perhaps playing as Fontaine or one of the other background names? |
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If this is the same as this news reported by GameSpot:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6178502.htm... - a couple of points: 1) the game has shipped 1,5 mio, not sold it. 2) they talk of a sequel "GTA-style", which would mean same gameplay, different story and characters. |
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The BioShock demo certainly broke a record for me... the one for the longest Marketplace download ever at over 20 hours!!! Yup, despite being able to download 1.3 GBs of PS3 demos in less than 40 minutes the same sized equivalent on the 360 on the same day using the same router connection took the best part of a day! LOL
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thepiedpiper
11/09/07 @ 14:09
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"In fairness, there's only you and two other blokes on the european PS3 servers."
True dat!! |
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The only reason it was bad that day was because it was such a popular download. All other times speed isnt an issue so its not fair saying the service sucks just because you were inconvenienced on that one day.
Plus Live isnt really that expensive, I know the retail is £39.99 for 12 months but it can be had for as cheap as £25 if you shop around. Not exactly breaking the bank considering you get a years service. |
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kangarootoo
11/09/07 @ 16:32
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Am I going nuts, or have my comments in this thread been removed? I can never bloody find threads I've posted on if I leave it half the day, so maybe I've missed one.
If they have been removed from this particular thread, I'd be very interested to know why. |
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Baggies1879
11/09/07 @ 20:29
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"Would you kindly pop over to our BioShock review to find out why?"
Genius!! |
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