3:04 AM
It’s a sad day to be a PC gamer.
2K Marin, developer of BioShock 2, has announced that the PC community will not ever, ever get its hands on the Minerva’s Den downloadable content already available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
A post on the game’s forums pretty much says it all.
“We will not be offering Protector Trials and Minerva’s Den on the PC in the future – and I want to say that I’m sorry for the disappointment this will cause to PC players out there,” reads the statement.
But the pain doesn’t end there.
“We will not be adding vending machine sounds into any version of BioShock 2 and we will not be adding playlists for the multiplayer DLC maps,” the post explains.
“We are planning patches for the 360 and PS3 to fix some functionality issues, but they will not drastically change gameplay.”
Looks like the next chance PC Bioshock fans will have to play fully will be when BioShock Infinite releases. Ouch.
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on Oct 9th 2010 5:30PM
If you're a PC gamer that's been waiting to get your feet wet in BioShock 2's pair of DLC expansions, the "Protector Trials" and "Minerva's Den," you're in for a disappointing next few minutes. A 2K Games representative recently commented on the game's official forums, explaining that "we will also not be offering Protector Trials and Minerva's Den on the PC in the future," citing "timing and technical issues" as the reason for the expansions' non-appearance. The representative went on to apologize for "the disappointment this will cause to PC players out there," though we wouldn't worry too much about that, as PC gamers are almost certainly used to it by this point.
I know I promised a review of Privates, but when it came to writing time, something rather more important caught my attention.
So unless you live under a particularly thick rock, you’ll have heard about the latest creation from the brilliant minds over at Irrational Games, Bioshock: Infinite. It’s a prequel to the Rapture saga set 40 years before the events of the first two games. Where Bioshock and Bioshock 2 were set in the art deco themed under sea world of Rapture, Infinite takes place in the airborne steam punk city of Columbia.
And although one of the game’s developers believes it could be considered a new intellectual property, the gameplay looks remarkably similar, right down to the big daddy-type figures and supernatural powers, except now you seem to drink them in stead of inject them.
In the game, you’ll play as Booker DeWitt, a detective sent to rescue a woman named Elizabeth from the highly xenophobic city. Of course the big news is that on Tuesday, Irrational Games released the first gameplay trailer for the game. The video’s below, open for your interpretation.
Article from Gamersyndrome.com
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Max is a student and freelance writer in Toronto who lives unflinchingly by the life code of Manny Calavera.
