BioShock 2 Comes With No Extra Levels. Thanks For Getting My Hopes Up Blogs
The best game ever*, BioShock will finally be arriving on the PSTriples this week, only 14 months late. But still, we get loads of new awesome stuff for our wait right? All those great new things we heard about a few months back finally arriving in Blu-ray glory?
No. Baww.
It was my fault for falling for the hype I guess. The Destructoid article I read mentioned whole new levels for me to play in, as well as a brand new opening movie. So where the hell is it? Turns out the whole thing was basically fabricated.
All articles reporting the rumour can be tracked back to a small blog site called PlayStation LifeStyle which listed no source and a rather ambitious list of supposed new features. Nearly all of which are either exaggerations or just wrong.
- New opening video around 6 minutes long on how life was like before Rapture went bad. Original video starts after this one ends.
- Trophies of course will be in the game
- Exclusive new level, with 2 new enemies, thought to be the ‘˜zoo’ level that was excluded from the original 360 edition due to running out of time
- Some levels may have been tweaked from the 360 version
- All downloadable content after the release will be free
- The game will take advantage of the SIXAXIS motion sensing technology
- Slightly better Graphics, less pop-up and loading times decreased thanks to hard drive install
Up until today, I had simply accepted that there were going to be new levels in BioShock for the PS3. Nobody had said there wasn’t, and people were continually re-cycling the same talk of a new “zoo” level.
So what actually has changed for the PS3 version? In a press release issued today, Take 2 explained.
BioShock for PLAYSTATION 3 system contains new features such as the inclusion of the Survivor difficulty mode, Trophy support and the addition of all-new Add-On Game Content that will be available for download shortly after launch.
Damn you blogs! Getting my hope up. Unless this DLC is free and contains a plasmid to make your enemies dance, I feel disappointed. From now on I am am just going to regard any blog post tagged “rumour” as a lie. At least then I’ll either be unaffected or pleasantly surprised.
*fact
I don’t own a ps3 (I need to eat food) but I have played the demo on my friend’s. The pop-up is terrible and in many places the textures almost hurt to look at they’re so bad. But that was the demo. Those issues may have been addressed.
I played the demo myself, as well as the full game on the 360 many times. The BigDaddy texture stuff got fixed and was them noobing up. I didn’t notice any texture pop-up myself, though the unreal engine does have a tendency for it.
Don’t justify their failure, fanboy :P
That’s too bad. I was looking forward to some new content– they had a good amount of time for something that ended up being just a port.