Published: February 22, 2010
2K Games Announces Extensive Downloadable Content for BioShock 2
NEW YORK - (BUSINESS WIRE) - 2K Games announced today an aggressive post-launch downloadable content
plan for BioShock2 that extends and enhances the single
and multiplayer experiences by adding more glimpses into the
award-winning world of Rapture. Downloadable content will be made
available soon beginning with the Sinclair Solutions Test Pack,
available this March from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360
video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for
WindowsâLIVE for 400 Microsoft Points and from the PlayStationNetwork
for $4.99. Future expansions into the world of BioShock 2
are slated to arrive over the coming months and will continue to expand
on the stories of the denizens of Rapture.
"The fans who waited in the snow, rain and cold for the midnight launch of
BioShock 2 have spoken and their message is that Rapture still
has many fascinating stories to tell," said Christoph Hartmann,
president of 2K. "Downloadable content is a key part of our efforts to
continue to entice the fans that have made 2K a household name - we
intend to deliver single and multiplayer content that respects and
expands upon one of the greatest fictional worlds ever created."
Sinclair Solutions Test Pack, the first of several planned
downloadable packages, contains a number of customization features that
will allow players to further their character's development in BioShock
2's multiplayer modes and provide a deeper multiplayer
experience. The pack includes:
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Rank Increase to level 50 with Rank Rewards
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New playable characters Louie McGraff and Oscar Calraca
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20 new trials*
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A third weapon upgrade for each weapon
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Five additional masks*
*Some items are only available after a player achieves a rank of 41 or
higher.
In the coming months, 2K Games will also be publishing downloadable
extensions of the single player experience that provide new insight into
the world of Rapture. These packages will include more narrative, new
tools and new challenges that extend the lore and fiction of the failed
Utopia under the sea.
About BioShock 2
BioShock 2's multiplayer modes provide fans with an
engrossing prequel experience that expands upon the fiction of Rapture's
origins. Set during the year before Rapture's descent into chaos,
players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair
Solutions, a key provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater city
that was first explored in BioShock. Players will enter
into areas from the original title as they struggle to gain superiority
and fight for survival in franticly paced battles.
The single player mode serves as a sequel to the original game and
provides fans with an unsettling storyline, dazzling visual design and
the evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter gameplay. Set
almost a decade after a grueling civil war consumed the once magnificent
city of Rapture, evil reverberates through the halls and a wickedness
once thought gone forever returns along the Atlantic seaboard. An
unspeakable series of kidnappings from local seaside communities by an
unseen monster leads to the repopulation of Little Sisters in Rapture's
failed utopia under the ocean. Players must step into the boots of one
of gaming's most iconic characters, the Big Daddy, as they traverse
through the fallen city, fending off attacks from an army of genetically
modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key to their
survival.
BioShock 2 is available now for the Xbox 360 video game
and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation3 computer
entertainment system and Games for Windows and is rated M for Mature by
the ESRB. For more information on BioShock 2 please visit www.bioshock2game.com,
www.cultofrapture.com
and www.somethinginthesea.com.
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