BioShock, the spiritual successor to SystemShock 2

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:29 am

preview

looks very

Sovy Kurosei · Post by **Sovy Kurosei** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:39 am

Biology, genetics, xenotransplanting, cooky crazy stuff kicks ass.

Which explains why I am going into bioinformatics.

It is indeed very

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:10 pm

System Shock - tech implants + bio implants =

Looks fucking awesome. Between this and Freedom Force, Irrational is a really great dev house.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:16 pm

I agree. All I need to hear now is that it's being developed for PC only, and it confirms their greatness.

This dev house seems to be able to throw out new IPs whenever they feel like it (FF, this game), and still survive as PC only.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:44 pm

Looks fucking neat... and I haven't even played either of the System Shocks.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:36 pm

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3924

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:37 pm

DAMN TRIPLE POST

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=System+Shock

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:37 pm

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:39 pm

thanks sugar baby

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:12 pm

Haha, I saw that Jessica character on tv yesterday.

Anyway, BioShock sounds cool. The concept images are interesting, but look too much like Doom 3. I hear their new Tribes: Vengeance game is actually quite good.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:39 pm

5 years old and 230 pounds? Where is America going ?

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:15 am

to dennys, dairyqueen and burgerking for breakfast apparently!

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:41 am

holy mother of christ...

Burnov · Post by **Burnov** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:58 am

If you note in the interview the guy mentions how many people didn't like multiplayer in SS2.

Which to me is allusive to them using that reason as a piss-poor scapegoat reason for not putting cooperative gameplay into their next game.

So, as usual. I won't get my hopes up.

Games like System Shock are infinitely better with co-op gameplay. I really enjoyed SS2 co-op from what little I played of it. It was a bit buggy for some reason (it went out of sync a lot). However if that's what constitutes not liking it then I say go the extra mile and fix it, instead of trying to make what conceptually looks to be a doom 3 knockoff with more emphasis on open ended gameplay.

Co-op gaming has been relegated chiefly to consoles as of late and that's just sad. No story in my opinion is so important that it should ever suprecede the ability to play alongside with my friends. Even the main halflife game would have been fun to play with a friend. It wasn't for a while until sven co-op came out that it was possible. Even then. It wasn't quite the same.

I'll keep my fingers crossed. However I'll also hammer a nice huge nail through a baseball bat just in case they decide to cop-out bigtime.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:39 pm

You mentioned Doom3 Burnov, if you even played ss2, you'd know most of Doom3 was ripped off from that.

personally i dont give a fuck about online gaming or multiplayer fps, if i buy this it will be purely for the single player. ss2 was for me, an excellent game with few flaws.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:27 pm

Well, I'm not hyped one bit. I mean, mutated nazis? The story sucks.

I guess I need more info.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:21 pm

whaa? It just takes place on some labs in an old ww2 base. Nothing about nazis or super soldiers.

It will probably just be like far cry storywise. I didn't think system shock 2 had an amazing story either, it was more about the atmosphere.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:37 pm

Talking of Irrational, apparantly Tribes:Vengeance comes with an awesome single player campaign that no one was expecting (early previews weren't that enthusiastic).

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:21 am

Hmm, a pity Shodan doesn't seem to be on the cards, she was amusing. Other than that, I'll try to remain optimistic.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:12 pm

<a href="http://pc.ign.com/articles/556/556421p1.html">A new Q&A</a>. Nice to see some DE2 bashing (even though the same site probably gave the game a 95% review). Still no word on the platforms it's for though...