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BioShock 2 received positive reviews, although not as warm as that of its predecessor. [103] [104] Review aggregator Metacritic assigned the game a weighted average critic score of 88/100 across all platforms. [88] [89] [90] Reviewers noted BioShock 2 's fundamental similarity to its predecessor, but disagreed on whether the similarity was a ...
BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K.The first game in the BioShock series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms in August 2007; a PlayStation 3 port by Irrational, 2K Marin, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes was released in October 2008.
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 ...
2K Marin, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Novato, California.Founded in December 2007 as a spin-off from their parent, 2K, the company developed BioShock 2 (2010) and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (2013) before laying off or relocating all staff in October 2013 and silently being closed.
The Collection features upgraded versions of BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite, with new textures and support for higher resolution displays and framerates. The compilation was released in September 2016 for PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , and Windows ; versions for macOS and Nintendo Switch followed in August 2017 and May 2020, respectively.
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.
After a good sales start in both the U.S. and Japan with 14 launch titles (a record at the time) [60] subsequent low retail support in the U.S., [61] lack of communication with third-party developers by SNK's American management, [62] the craze about Nintendo's Pokémon franchise, [63] anticipation of the 32-bit Game Boy Advance, [63] as well ...
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]