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BioShock 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Marin and published by 2K Games.It was released worldwide for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 on February 9, 2010; Feral Interactive released an OS X version on March 30, 2012.
Like BioShock 2, Minerva's Den is a first-person shooter game. The story takes place in the underwater city of Rapture in 1968, [1] eight years after the events of BioShock and concurrent with the events of BioShock 2 ' s story mode, in the technological district of Minerva's Den. [2] The player character, Subject Sigma, is a Big Daddy, a person fused with an armored diving suit. [1]
Andrew Ryan's early history draws inspiration from the early life of Ayn Rand.Like Rand, he was born in the Russian Empire to a middle-class Russo-Jewish family. [9] In BioShock 2, it is revealed that he was originally named Andrei, [10] and the novel BioShock: Rapture provides his birth name as Andrei Rianofski, hailing from a village near Minsk in modern-day Belarus. [11]
BioShock is a retrofuturistic video game series created by Ken Levine, published by 2K and developed by several studios, including Irrational Games and 2K Marin.The BioShock games combine first-person shooter and role-playing elements, giving the player freedom for how to approach combat and other situations, and are considered part of the immersive sim genre.
Levine has been a consultant and co-author of three books related to the BioShock franchise. These are BioShock: Rapture, BioShock Infinite: Mind in Revolt and The Art of BioShock Infinite. He himself did not work on the majority of Rapture and Mind in Revolt, but provided the intellectual property and quotes used by the authors in the books.
On May 31, 2007, Halo 2 was released for Windows Vista. [1] The game supports all the standard Live features (such as achievements, voice chat, messages, etc.), but does not offer cross-platform play with Xbox players. Sega, Eidos, and THQ signed on to include Games for Windows – Live in their upcoming games.
During the events of BioShock 2, eight years later, she returns to Rapture to rescue the last of the Little Sisters and find the cure for Splicing. She contacts Subject Delta during the beginning and guides him through the first two levels before being replaced by Augustus Sinclair, as she needs to help others, such as Charles Milton Porter.
Since the release of System Shock 2, Levine had been trying to pitch a sequel to publishers without success.Starting around 2002, Levine led a small development team at Irrational to create BioShock, a game with a similar narrative approach and free-form approach as System Shock 2, using idea of having the player navigate through three factions, drones that carried a desirable resource ...