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New Bioshock 2 Footage

The official BioShock 2 website has new content, including three gameplay movies.  Yeah the new site setup is pretty badass and the general vibe they’re delivering is much darker than the first Bioshock which was pretty demented to begin with. There’s new footage showing how you can use your plasmids at the same time as your guns which is leading to some sick combos. Grabbing a splicer with telekinesis and then shooting them point blank with a chain gun that shoots electro bullets you previously charged with your lightening plasmid. Yeah this is going to be some kind of epic.

Not to mention the little sister pull-string talking doll which will send chills down your spine.

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I missed Rapture.

So I dusted off my old copy of Bioshock and reinstalled it. As I finished stockpiling enough caffeine and vitamin B to kill most livestock on my desk, I girded my loins in preparation for an all night madness induced gaming session. I would beat Bioshock in one sitting.

Needless to say, my mind was ravaged. I forget how awesome this game was. I forgot how fucking incredible it felt to get the Big Daddy suit. I forgot how epic the dialogue in that game is, how rich the story, and how badass it feels to completely destroy a grown man with a golf club.

And then I started watching the new trailers and interviews about Bioshock 2 and my heart began to race again at the prospect of seeing the fruit of my endeavors 10 years in the future. Check these out, would you kindly?

“In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!”

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