The Lamer Gamer

Been trudging through Bioshock 2, and in one of the random corners of a level that I’ve explored, I found this:

Schrodinger’s Cat, no?  I laughed a bunch when I found this after melting a patch of ice in the frozen gallery in Dionysius Park.  Since there’s no box, I think it’s pretty clear that this cat is dead, but you never know.  Anyway, great Easter Egg.

Bioshock 2 is surprising me bit by bit.  The main game is more of the same, the story is new of course, but most of the enemies are the same, the weapons are essentially the same (just updates of the originals) and rapture, looks about the same.  I’m having fun with it, though I’m having trouble keeping track of some of the characters.  I think it supposed to be obvious that you are this guy who’s daughter was kidnapped and turned into Little Sister, and you yourself turned into a Big Daddy, but I’m rather confused.  Oh well, I’m almost done, and it’ll be sorted out by then I hope.

Multiplayer is what’s actually surprising.  It’s obviously not MW2 or anything of that ilk, but a decent set of derivative game types with the spin of Bioshock’s Plasmid and Tonics + weapon upgrades.  Doubtful that I’d want to keep the game just for that, but it’s a nice diversion after  some of the more tedious collecting of things (all Little Sisters, audio diaries) in single player.

Been hearing a lot of odd things about BioShock 2, namely that you’ll be picking up where you left off as a Big Daddy, while your new enemy is the Big Sister.  Looks like the same old splicers and such will be around too.  No idea if your actions from the original have any effect on the new one.      Probably not.

Considering that some promo pics have the date 1967 on them, it looks like the game is set about 7 years after you completed BioShock.   I would have thought they go with a new protagonist, more easily explaining why you have no abilities and armor as the game begins.  But who knows, maybe you can import or something.  You do get the Big Daddy and Rosie weapons like the drill and rivet gun.   Plus with the diving suit you can exit the city so there’s more than just what you’ve seen before.

From the screenshots available, it definately looks prettier than the original, course they might all be pre-renders.

Be nice if something else would show up on their promo site http://www.somethinginthesea.com/